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 Henry Whitcher (1840-1931)
Edmund Burke Wood (1820-1882)
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.