Manitoba Organization: Manitoba Teachers’ Society

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Founded at Winnipeg on 22 April 1919, the aim of the Manitoba Teachers’ Federation was to promote the interests in teachers in rural and urban schools throughout Manitoba. It arose from a meeting held at the Central Normal School in July 1918, organized by Belmont teacher W. E. Marsh, and attended by J. M. Nason of Deloraine, W. J. G. Scott of Roland, H. W. Huntley of Winnipeg, and E. K. Marshall of Portage la Prairie. In 1942, it was renamed the Manitoba Teachers’ Society.

Presidents of the Manitoba Teachers’ Society

Period	President
1919-1921	Herbert Wellington Huntley (1879-1974)
1921-1922	Edgar Kenny Marshall (c1876-1956)
1922-1924	Charles Walter Laidlaw (1873-1953)
1924-1927	Alexander Charles Campbell (1874-1951)
1927-1928	Wilfred Sadler (1884-1951)
1928-1929	William Abraham Anderson (1890-1947)
1929-1931	Arthur Edward Hearn (1871-1937)
1931-1932	George Florence (1884-1977)
1932-1933	James A. Crossley (?-?)
1933-1934	William Gladstone Oliver (1890-1968)
1934-1935	Gordon Minto Churchill (1898-1985)
1935-1936	Miss C. Parkinson
1936-1937	Wellington Geddes Rathwell (1887-1951)
1937-1938	H. V. Bell
1938-1939	Mrs. E. J. Ransom
1939-1940	A. S. Moore
1940-1941	James Hugh Cameron (1890-1981)
1941-1942	John Elwood Ridd (1896-1986)
1942	Eleanor Boyce (c1899-1997)
1942-1944	E. Floyd Willoughby (c1889-1956)
1944-1945	Robert Cecil Paris (1885-1964)
1945-1946	Miss M. Hamilton
1946-1947	Frederick Drury Baragar (1891-1964)
1947-1948	Hilda Kinney Ellis (1905-1987)
1948-1949	Gabriel R. Rowe (1897-1968)
1949-1950	Elmenia Jean Mollard (1901-1991)
1950-1951	Harold Edwin Richard Murphy (1894-1975)
1951-1952	Myrtle Rietta Conway (1908-2005)
1952-1953	Duncan Hector Stewart (1912-1999)
1953-1954	Miss E. Miller
1954-1955	John Adrian Ashley (1902-1987)
1955-1956	Miss A. MacDonald
1956-1957	Miss W. Stevenson
1957-1958	Carl Stirrat Gow (1900-1977)
1958-1959	Albert Edward “Ted” Scrase (1901-1984)
1959-1962	?
1962-1963	Robert John Cochrane (1900-1978)
1963-1966	?
1966-1967	Donald Taylor McKinnon (1926-2012)
1967-1971	?
1971-1972	Walter Nowosad (1918-2003)
?	Edward Kowalchuk (1926-2003)
?	Sybil Francis Shack (1911-2004)
?	Arthur Victor Pigott (1900-1987)
?	Barney Thordarson (1904-1974)

See also:

Manitoba Organization: Manitoba Educational Association

Manitoba Organization: Manitoba School Boards Association

Sources:

“Oliver is named as new president of teachers’ body,” Winnipeg Free Press, 19 April 1933, page 3.

The History of the Manitoba Teachers’ Society by Haraldur Victor Vidal, MA thesis, University of Manitoba, 1958.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 20 May 2013