Manitoba Organization: Manitoba Educational Association

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The Manitoba Educational Association was established in 1905. Unlike other Manitoba organizations dedicated to educational aims, the mandate of the MEA was broad and included teachers, inspectors, administrators, and ordinary citizens among its members. From 1905 to 1919, when the Manitoba Teachers’ Federation was formed, the MEA was the only organization speaking up for the province’s teachers. Its major activity was a well-attended convention held in the spring of each year.

Presidents

Period	President
1905-1906	Alexander S. Rose (1858-1928)
1906-1907	Sidney Edward Lang (1864-1950)
1907-1908	George Young
1908-1909	Frank Howard Schofield (1859-1929)
1909-1910	William Newton Finlay (c1869-?)
1910-1911	Roger Goulet (1867-1946)
1911-1912	Daniel J. McIntyre (1852-1946)
1912-1913	Elwood A. Garratt (1859-1950)
1913-1914	David Merritt Duncan (1870-1951)
1914-1915	John Henry Mulvey (1861-1925)
1915-1916	William Albert McIntyre (1859-1937)
1916-1917	Alexander Charles Campbell (1874-1951)
1917-1918	Frederick William Clark (1874-1940)
1918-1919	Joseph William Gordon (1868-1954)
1919-1920	W. White
1920-1921	Percy Dewart Harris (1871-1953)
1921-1922	Hugh Duncan Cumming (1879-1942)
1922-1923	Charles Kenning Newcombe (1877-1944)
1923-1924	Duncan McDougall (c1871-1947)
1924-1925	Edgar Kenny Marshall (c1876-1956)
1925-1926	Robert Charles Wallace (1881-1955)
1926-1927	W. W. McDonald
1927-1928	Robert Fletcher (1873-1963)
1928-1929	John Braithwaite Wallis (1876-1962)
1929-1930	Archibald Adam Herriot (1881-1956)
1930-1931	Lloyd A. H. Warren (1879-1949)
1931-1932	Benjamin Jones Hales (1868-1945)
1932-1933	Joseph Henry Fink [Brother Joseph] (1874-1935)
1933-1934	Mrs. L. Macdonnell
1934-1935	Allan B. Fallis (1874-1948)
1935-1936	Margaret Elliott McBeth (1883-1960)
1936-1937	James Erron Stanley Dunlop (1882-1945)
1937-1938	James Clayton Pincock (1885-1976)
1938-1939	Mrs. M. B. Cannon
1939-1940	David Scott Woods (1884-1966)
1940-1941	Arthur Herbert Hoole (1889-1991)
1941-1942	Eleanor Boyce (1898-1997)
1942-1943	Elbridge Doty Parker (1884-1981)
1943-1944	Oliver Victor Jewitt (1889-1967)
1944-1945	Ethel Adams Kinley (1887-1967)
1945-1946	Herbert Clarence Ray (1902-1990)
1946-1947	Hugh Hamilton Saunderson (1904-1984)
1947-1948	Clifford Knox Rogers (1889-1968)
1948-1949	Robert Jarman (c1886-1953)
1949-1950	Thomas Addison Neelin (1882-1970)
1950-1951	Myrtle Rietta Conway (1908-2005)
1951-1952	Herbert McIntosh (1888-1953)
1952-1953	Carl Nelson Halstead (1896-1957)
1953-1954	Hugh Connolly (1890-1970)
1954-1955	Ewart Horace Morgan (1896-1983)
1955-1956	Andrew Moore (1890-1974)
1956-1957	Joseph Henry Bruns (1908-1973)
1957-1958	William Meredith Hugill (1894-1963)
1958-1959	Lola Frances MacQuarrie (c1909-1966)
1959-1960	Lewis Edwin Walker (c1910-1968)
1960-1961	R. R. Robertson
1961-1962	Ronald Thornton Frederick Thompson (1907-1984)
1962-1963	Elsie Lydia Gauer (1906-2006)
1963-1964	J. M. Brown
1964-1966	?
1966-1967	John Leamen (1908-1967)
1967-1968	Royden Frederick Lee (1917-2006)

Secretaries

Period	Secretary
1905-1906	Duncan McDougall (c1871-1947)
1906-1907	Arthur Edward Hearn (1871-1937)
1907-1908	Samuel Carson Lee (1872-1926)
1908-1909	Ralph Russell James Brown (1875-1917)
1909-1910	Duncan McDougall (c1871-1947)
1910-1911	William George Henderson (1881-1911)
1911-1920	Percy Dewart Harris (1871-1953)
1920-1933	H. J. Russell
1933-1935	Miss Ida E. Brydon
1935-1941	Carl Stirrat Gow (1900-1977)
1941-1946	Linden John Crocker (1898-1965)
1946-1949	Lewis Edwin Walker (c1910-1968)
1949-1954	W. L. Dyker
1954-1959	William Alfred Lorne McFarland (1908-1990)
1959-1962	Ernest Butterworth (c1917-1975)
1962-1964	Clifford Charles Wood (1913-1988)

See also:

Manitoba Organization: Manitoba School Boards Association

Manitoba Organization: Manitoba Teachers’ Society

Sources:

The History of the Manitoba Educational Association by Ernest Butterworth, MEd thesis, Faculty of Graduate Study and Research, University of Manitoba, 1965.

“Royden F. Lee,” Winnipeg Free Press, 5 April 1967, page 17.

We thank Nathan Kramer for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 1 August 2023