Walter Ernest Clark (1890-1987)

Farmer, MLA (1954-1957).

Clark was born on 17 July 1890, the youngest child of John and Hanna Clark. Sydney E. Clark was one of his siblings.

He lived and farmed in the Rosehill district of Manitoba, near the town of Baldur. On 27 Novembver 1912, he married Teresa Caroline Porter, with whom he had five children. The family moved to Baldur in 1945 but continued to farm until the 1970s.

Clark served as Reeve of the Rural Municipality of Argyle for 18 years and, in 1950 and 1951, he was President of the Union of Manitoba Municipalities, predecessor of the Association of Manitoba Municipalities. For three years starting in 1955, he represented the Mountain constituency in the Manitoba provincial legislature, as a member of the Douglas Campbell government.

Clark died on 26 March 1987, at Baldur, Manitoba.

Source:

Precious Memories by Walter E. Clark, privately published memoir, 1987.

Profile revised: 6 October 2009

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