Businessman, community activist.
Born at Dinorwic, Ontario on 14 February 1908, he moved to Winnipeg in his teens and resided in West Kildonan for over 70 years. He was a co-owner of Brown and Murray Automotive Supply. On 13 August 1932, he married schoolteacher Doris Evelyn Wakelin (1907-1999) and they had two daughters. The family had a summer cottage at Caddy Lake. He was a member of St. Anne’s Anglican Church, West Kildonan Curling Club, Masons, and Lord Selkirk-West Kildonan Community Advisory Committee. He served for 17 years on the Board for the Seven Oaks School Division, many of them as its Chairman. He died at the Middlechurch Home on 20 January 2001 and was buried in the Old Kildonan Cemetery.
Marriage registration [Lawrence Sylvester Alberts, Doris Evelyn Wakelin], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Obituary [Doris Evelyn Alberts], Winnipeg Free Press, 5 January 1999, page 35.
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 22 January 2001.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 20 May 2025
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