Civil servant, postmaster.
Born at Kingston, Ontario in 1858, he began a career in the civil service at the age of 16, in the office of the Governor General at Ottawa. He transferred to Winnipeg in 1879 where he became a founding member of the Manitoba Historical Society. He married in 1881 and resigned from his government job to move to Brandon with his new wife, establishing there the city's first post office. He also served as the first postmaster at Alexander.
He served as a Brandon city alderman (1882-1883), was a member of the Provisional Board of Governors for the Brandon General Hospital (1883), and was the first police magistrate (1883-1887). He returned to Ottawa to organize the Immigration Branch and, in 1913, moved to Nova Scotia to establish immigration services there. He retired in 1920.
He died at Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia on 23 June 1933 and was buried in the St. Louis Cemetery there.
See also:
Loftus Morton Fortier by Thomas D. Fortier
Manitoba Pageant, Volume 19, Number 1, Autumn 1973Historic Sites of Manitoba: Clement Block (907 Rosser Avenue, Brandon)
Loftus Morton Fortier, FindAGrave.
We thank Darryl Toews for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 9 March 2025
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