Edward Ingo Dow (1904-1992)

Businessman, municipal official, MLA (1959-1962), MLA (1966-1969).

Born at Pilot Mound, Manitoba on 13 September 1904, son of George Dow and Eleanor Mary Ingo, nephew of Edward Nicholson, he moved with his family to British Columbia, living at Vancouver and Victoria, returning to Boissevain, Manitoba in 1916. There he attended high school, then after two years of study at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, he went into the retail fuel and farm implement business at Boissevain. He was married on 14 July 1927 to Dorothy Grace Taylor. He was an avid athlete, playing hockey, semi-professional baseball, track and field, golf, and curling.

Dow served as President of the Turtle Mountain Agricultural Society, a member of the Board of Stewards of the Boissevain United Church, and field representative of the RCAF Benevolent Fund. He was President of the Brandon-Souris Constituency Liberal Association and, in 1949, was a federal candidate, losing to James Arthur Ross. He was elected to the Boissevain town council in 1930 and became Mayor of Boissevain in 1946, serving in the position until 1968. He was active in the Union of Manitoba Municipalities and served as President of the Manitoba Association of Urban Municipalities in 1953.

He ran for the Manitoba Legislature in the 1958 provincial election, losing to Errick French Willis. However, he was elected in a by-election in November 1959, serving until 1962, then again from 1966 to 1968, and from 1968 to 1969.

He died on 23 December 1992.

Sources:

Birth registration for E. I. Dow, Manitoba Vital Statistics.

Western Municipal News, March 1953, page 81.

Profile revised: 26 September 2009

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