MHS Centennial Organization: Manitoba Association of School Trustees / Manitoba School Boards Association

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The Manitoba School Trustees Association was established as a result of an organizational meeting held at Brandon on 3-5 April 1907. Initially, it was known as the Department of School Administration of the Manitoba Educational Association and changed its name the following year to the School Trustee’s Department.

It was incorporated as the Manitoba School Trustees Association in 1943. It divided into separate urban and rural associations in 1959 (called the Urban School Trustees Association and Manitoba School Trustees Association, respectively) but the two entities re-merged in 1965, becoming the Manitoba Association of School Trustees. It was renamed the Manitoba School Boards Association in 1990.

Presidents

Year	President
1907-1908	Samuel MacMorine (1847-1909)
1908-1909	John Archibald McKerchar (1862-1948)
1909-1910	Alexander Morrison Campbell (1856-1910)
1910-1913	William H. Bewell (1850-?)
1913-1914	John Livingstone Brown (1867-1953)
1915-1916	Ira Stratton (1865-1943)
1916-1917	William Iverach (1865-1947)
1917-1920	?
1920-1924	James Allison Glen (1877-1950)
1924-1939	?
1939-1940	Wallace Conrad “Wally” Miller (1896-1959)
1940-1942	?
1942-1943	Duncan Lloyd Cameron (1892-1957)
1943-1950	?
1950-1951	John N. McFadden (1888-1956)
1951	George Arthur Fitton (1875-1956)
1951-1952	William Graham Ferguson (1896-1964)
1952-1954	Mrs. Nan Murphy
1954-1955	Leslie James Bennett (1893-1972)
1955-1956	L. B. Shilson (Carman)
1956-1959	A. H. Day
1959	Glen P. Sutherland (Brandon)
1959-1960	C. R. Durston
1960-1961	Roy Joseph Matas (1920-1986)
1961-1962	E. L. Reynolds
1962-1964	Aidan Hamilton Conklin (1905-1995)
1964-1966	Alvin Chown Hamilton (1926-2014)
1966-1967	Ron Parkinson (St. Boniface)
1967-1968	Glen Harrison Lowther (1926-2019)
1968-1969	Bertrun Elwood “Bert” Glavin (1904-1972)
1969-1970	D. K. Compton
1970-1971	W. Norrie
1971-1973	W. W. Robson
1973-1974	Joseph C. Stangl (1919-2013)
1974-1975	D. D. Durston
1975-1976	Maureen Hemphill
1976-1977	K. Burgess
1977-1978	M. Trott
1978-1979	E. Hart
1979-1980	Allen “Al” Rouse (1925-2017)
1980-1981	J. Murray
1981-1982	Myrtle I. Zimmerman (1921-2011)
1982-1983	David Robert “Bob” Rose (1933-2000)
1983-1984	G. Marshall
1984-1985	J. Johnson
1985-1986	L. McIntosh
1986-1987	D. Mosset
1987-1988	J. Silver
1988-1989	V. Kulyk
1989-1990	B. Leslie
1990-1991	B. Gladstone
1991-1992	Eric Leonard Jonasson (1948-1998)
1992-1993	L. Bergstresser
1993-1994	G. Watson
1994-1995	M. Van Osch
1995-1996	C. Duhamel
1996-1997	B. Green
1997-1998	R. Schellenberg
1998-1999	L. Schieman
1999-2000	D. McGiffin
2000-2001	R. Toews
2001-2002	D. Dunnigan
2002-2003	L. Archer
2003-2005	G. Draper
2005-2007	R. A. Furgala
2007-2009	Y. Dupuis
2009-2011	H. Coburn
?	Samuel Henry Forrest (1873-1963)
8 years	James Anthony Cuddy (1892-1971)
?	Grimur Johannesson (c1903-1960)
2 terms	Joseph Aldéric Marion (1864-1954)
?	Washington Hector French (1873-1956)
?	Abram Jacob Thiessen (1910-2002)
?	Edwin Dalgleish

See also:

Manitoba Organization: Manitoba Educational Association

Manitoba Organization: Manitoba Teachers’ Society

Sources:

“Trustee groups here vote to amalgamate, to set up new body,” Winnipeg Free Press, 19 June 1965, page 118.

History of the Manitoba School Boards Association.

We thank Karen Harrington for providing additional information used here.

Page revised: 12 September 2022