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Biography
Dan Ronald Hartigan was born February 11, 1924 in Centreville, Cape Breton. He was the son of Michael Jospeh Hartigan and Mary Cameron. By 1931 his family moved to a farm in Dunmore, Antigonish County.
Hartigan served as a Sergeant with the 1st Canadian Parchute Battalion in the Second World War. His older brothers David Hartigan, William Hugh “Hugh” Hartigan and Collin Francis “Frank” Hartigan also served in the Second World War.
Following the war, Hartigan married stenographer Rosaline Amanda Swim of Lockport, Shelburn County at St. Thomas Aquinas Rectory in Halifax on October 7, 1949. They went on to have two sons and a daughter. Hartigan and his wife eventually moved to Calgary, Alberta where he worked as a salesman then an Industrial Arts and Business Education instructor.
Hartigan served as historian for the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion Association and published the book A Rising of Courage: Canada’s Paratroops in the Liberation of Normandy in 2000.
Hartigan died December 14, 2001 at Rosedale Hospice in Calgary. He is buried in Eden Brook Memorial Gardens, Calgary.
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