Manitoba Organization: Manitoba Historical Society [Manitoba Scientific and Historical Society]

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Founding Members of the Manitoba Scientific and Historical Society (1879-1880)

John Farquhar Bain (1849-1905)

Andrew Graham Ballenden Bannatyne (1829-1889)

Samuel Lawrence Bedson (1842-1891)

Alexander Begg (1839-1897)

Charles Napier Bell (1854-1936)

Samuel Clarke Biggs (1851-1911)

Robert Bourne

Walter Robert Bown (1828-1903)

George Bryce (1844-1931)

D. M. Campbell

Felix Chenier (1843-1910)

A. Christie

Francis Ignatino Clarke (1849-1916)

Donald Codd (c1845-1896)

William Coldwell (1834-1907)

William Cowan (1818-1902)

Abraham Cowley (1816-1887)

Hugh S. Donaldson (1829-1904)

Joseph Doupe (1837-1910)

Henry Mowat Drummond (1848-1917)

Arthur F. Eden (c1852-?)

Loftus Morton Fortier (1858-?)

Octave Fortin (1842-1927)

R. E. W. Goodridge

John Grisdale (1845-1922)

George Henry Ham (1847-1926)

Joseph James Hargrave (1841-1891)

Thomas Hart (1835-1912)

Rice Meredith Howard (c1849-1887)

Hector Mansfield Howell (1842-1918)

Capt. Owen E. Hughes

R. H. Hunter

Colin Inkster (1843-1934)

Edward Worrell Jarvis (?-1894)

R. H. Kenning

Albert Clements Killam (1849-1908)

Alphonse Alfred Clement LaRivière (1842-1925)

James Spencer Lynch (1841-1894)

Duncan MacArthur (1840-1907)

Samuel Pritchard Matheson (1852-1942)

Alexander McArthur (1843-1887)

Allan McDonald

Gilbert McMicken (1813-1891)

Rev. Edward Morrow (deceased c1881)

John Norquay (1841-1889)

Walter Reginald Nursey (1846-1927)

J. Outram

James Dallas O’Meara (1849-1901)

Silas R. Parsons (?-?)

William Pearce (1848-1930)

William Cyprian Pinkham (1844-1928)

Robert Dennis Richardson (1854-1946)

James Robertson (1839-1902)

Arthur Wellington  Ross (1846-1901)

W. H. Ross

James Hamilton Rowan (c1831-?)

George Roy

Joseph Royal (1837-1902)

William Osborne Smith (1831-1887)

Thomas Spence (1832-1900)

James Stewart (1826-1911)

Peter R. Sutherland

C. Sweeney

James Wickes Taylor (1820-1893)

Arthur H. Whitcher (?-?)

Edmund Burke Wood (1820-1882)

Speakers at the Annual Sir John A. Macdonald Dinner

Year	Speaker
1987	Professor Tim Ball
1988	John C. Lehr
1989	Jennifer Brown
1990	Leo Pettipas
1991	Gerald A. Friesen
1992	Brian Schwartz
1993	Israel Harold “Izzy” Asper (1932-2003)
1994	Henry Edmison “Harry” Duckworth (1915-2008)
1995	Hon. Pearl McGonigal
1996	John Maxwell “Jack” Bowman (1925-2005)
1997	Rev. Stan MacKay
1998	John Crosbie
1999	Phil Fontaine
2000	Rex Murphy
2001	Mel Hurtig
2002	Jamie Brown
2003	Hon. Justice Murray Sinclair
2004	Jake MacDonald
2005	Hon. John Turner
2006	Mike Ford
2007	Margaret Sweatman
2008	Roland Penner
2009	Alan Latourelle
2010	Dr. Jerry Gray
2011	Ken McGoogan
2012	Sylvia Kuzyk

See also:

The Manitoba Historical Society: A Centennial History by Gerald Friesen
This article was originally published in Manitoba History in 1982 to mark the centennial of the Society’s founding, in 1879.

The First Half Century: A Sketch of the Early Years of the Historical and Scientific Society of Manitoba by David A. Stewart, MD
Manitoba Pageant, Volume 24, Number 3, Spring 1979

Presidents of the Manitoba Historical Society
This list contains all the people who have served as President of the Society since its founding in 1879.

The Manitoba Historical and Scientific Society Act (1879)
The “Historical and Scientific Society of Manitoba” came into being when an Act was assented in the provincial legislature in June 1879.

Annual Reports
The Society publishes an Annual Report on its activities. Copies are available here.

Sources:

Archives of Manitoba, Manitoba Historical Society Fond, MG10 F2, Membership Book 1879-1895.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 8 April 2013