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The Sanatorium Board of Manitoba was founded in 1904 when a group of citizens organized to establish a tuberculosis sanatorium at Ninette. Incorporated under the Tuberculosis Control Act of 1929, it was renamed the Manitoba Lung Association in 1975.

Chairmen

Period

Chairman

1904-1912

?

1912-1913

Robert Mills Simpson (1864-1945)

1913-1923

?

1923-1942

John McEachern (1867-1942)

1942-1943

Charles Ernest Stockdill (1881-1960)

1943-1948

George William Northwood (1877-1959)

1949-1954

David Leopold Mellish (1883-1954)

1954-1957

William Whyte (1883-1960)

1958-1964

James Wasson Speirs (1888-1980)

1965-1968

Frank Boothroyd (1909-2003)

1969-1970

Harold L. McKay

1971-1974

Samuel Price Rattray (1903-1979)

1974-1975

Russell S. Allison

1975-1978

Hugh Hamilton Saunderson (1904-1984)

1979-?

Frank Boothroyd (1909-2003)

Sources:

Annual Reports of the Sanatorium Board of Manitoba, Manitoba Legislative Library.

“Allison Sanatorium Chairman,” Winnipeg Free Press, 29 April 1974, page 58.

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