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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.
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
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1966-1967
John Leamen (1908-1967)
1967-1968
Royden Frederick Lee (1917-2006)
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
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
