Manitoba Organization: Winnipeg Teachers’ Association

This organization represents all teachers, clinicians, counsellors, principals and vice-principals in the Winnipeg School Division.

Presidents

Period

President

1911

Ernest James Motley (1868-1940)

?-?

Thomas Edgar Argue (1869-1927)

?-?

Alexander Charles Campbell (1874-1951)

?-?

Margaret Elliott McBeth (1883-1960)

1921

Miss Mary Robertson

1923-1924

William Arthur Cowperthwaite (1874-1949)

1924-1925

John James Wilkinson (1881-1958)

1925-1926

William Fletcher Loucks (1876-1953)

1926-1927

Miss A. E. Glenn

1927-1928

Arthur Edward Hearn (1871-1937)

1928-1929

?

1929-1930

James Stockdale Little (1881-1958)

1930-1934

?

1934-1935

David Alfred Patterson (1891-1974)

1935-1936

William Wallace Kingdon Maxwell (1884-1972)

1936-1937

?

1937-1938

Henry Emerson Snyder (1891-1984)

1938-1939

?

1939-1940

John Elwood Ridd (1896-1986)

1940-1941

Helen Andrea Nicolson (1888-1978)

?-?

Mary Elizabeth Lamont (1885-1960)

?-?

William Gladstone Oliver (1890-1968)

1954

Axel Vopnfjord (1902-1993)

?-?

Jean Margaret Cameron (1905-1984)

?-?

Edward Marshall “Ed” Maguire (1915-2005)

?-?

Alice Mary Elizabeth Cheatley (1918-2017)

?-?

Gerhard Hoeppner “George” Enns (1920-2010)

1963-1964

Catherine “Caye” Scott (1907-2003)

1974-1975

John William “Jack” Carroll (1926-2018)

?-?

Phyllis I. Moore Hunter (1927-2026)

1988-1989

Joseph Francis “Joe” Scott (1940-2024)

Sources:

“Social and personal,” Manitoba Free Press, 19 April 1921, page 8.

“Teachers elect 1924 officers,” Winnipeg Tribune, 23 November 1923, page 6.

“I saw it in the Tribune,” Winnipeg Tribune, 4 May 1925, page 3.

“F. W. Loucks is President of Teachers’ Assn.,” Winnipeg Tribune, 28 November 1925, page 18.

“Assisted immigration policy fundamentally wrong, says Sandiford,” Manitoba Free Press, 27 November 1926, page 3.

“Little is President Winnipeg Teachers,” Manitoba Free Press, 23 November 1929, page 8.

“Winnipeg teachers honor three superintendents at huge banquet Friday,” Winnipeg Tribune, 2 February 1935, page 21.

“Programme for education week in Feb. is adopted,” Winnipeg Tribune, 30 November 1935, page 5.

“J. E. Ridd heads teachers’ group,” Winnipeg Tribune, 25 November 1939, page 11.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 1 August 2026