J. Leslie Bodie (1909-?)

Municipal official.

Born at Carman, Manitoba in 1909, he worked at a bank then, after studies at the University of Manitoba, he joined the accounting department of the Dominion Bridge Company in 1929. In time, he became successively the purchasing agent, office manager, assistant comptroller, and manager of personnel and industrial relations. He was also a director of Clay Law Limited and president of the Galt Building Holding Company. On 13 August 1936, he married Florence Woodhouse, with whom he had two children, daughter Brenda and son Douglas. He served as Honorary President of the Boy Scouts Council (North East District of Winnipeg), Lieutenant of the Queen’s Own Cameron Highlands (1942 to 1948), member of the Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce Civics Bureau and Vice-President of the Personnel Association of Greater Winnipeg.

He ran unsuccessfully as a Conservative candidate for the Springfield constituency in the 1949 federal election, and as a Liberal candidate for the Kildonan-Transcona constituency in the 1953 provincial election. He was elected to the East Kildonan School Board in 1945, becoming its Chair in 1947. He was elected Mayor of East Kildonan in 1947 and was councillor of the Village of Dunnottar, where he had a summer home, starting in 1953. He was a member of the Civic Election Committee of Ward Three in Winnipeg. In 1953, he was appointed to the Board of the Manitoba Power Commission. He was active in the Manitoba Association of Urban Municipalities since its founding in 1950, serving as its President in 1954.

Source:

Western Municipal News, July 1954, page 193.

Profile revised: 27 September 2009

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