James Warren Chafe (1900-1984)

Author, broadcaster, teacher, actor, playwright.

Born in the Rural Municipality of Springfield in 1900 where his father, who had arrived in Manitoba from Newfoundland in 1892, had begun to farm. In1903 the family moved into Winnipeg. In 1970, he was awarded a Manitoba Centennial Medal by the Manitoba Historical Society.

He died on 27 April1984, having spent most of his multi-faceted life in Winnipeg.

His publications include:

Early Life in Canada (1943, with Sybil Shack)

We Live Together, A Study in Inter-Dependence (1944)

Canada - ANation And How It Came To Be (1940s, with A. R. M. Lower)

Canada, Your Country (1950)

An Apple for the Teacher: A Centennial History of the Winnipeg SchoolDivision (1967)

The History of theManitoba Teachers’ Society (1969)

Extraordinary Tales From Manitoba History (1973)

More information:

J. W. Chafe: Winnipeg’s Renaissance Man by Warren Chafe
Manitoba History, Number 57, February 2008.

Manitoba Legislative Library, Biographical Scrapbook B20, page 130, Obituary - J. W. Chafe.

Profile revised: 14 June 2009

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