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James Robert Gervin
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Farmer, municipal official.
Born at Peterborough, Ontario on 4 September 1870, in 1895 he married Florence Alberta Stabler (1875-1947) and they came to a farm near Medora in 1899. They had seven daughters and one son: Elsie Gervin (1896-1989, wife of John MacDonald), Winnifred Gervin (?-1906), Phyllis Gervin (1897-?, wife of Fraser Johnston), Edith Gervin (1902-1988, wife of John Henderson), Isobel Gervin (1904-1983, wife of R. M. Hunter), Alton James Gervin (1908-?), Amy Gervin (1911-1964, wife of Alban H. Norton), and Dorothy Gervin (?-1981, wife of R. H. Burry). He served as Reeve of the Rural Municipality of Brenda (1912-1917) and was a member of the Loyal Orange Lodge (Worshipful Master, 1912, 1914; Grand Master of Manitoba, 1931-1932) and Masons (Napinka Lodge). In 1935, he was appointed to the first advisory council of the newly-established Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration. He died at his farm on 18 May 1939 and was buried in the Medora Cemetery.
Birth registration [Amy Gervin], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
1911 Canada census, Automated Genealogy.
Death registrations [James Robert Gervin, Florence Alberta Gervin], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Men Against the Desert by James Henry Gray, 1967, page 111.
Bridging Brenda by Brenda History Committee, Volume 2, 1990, page 701.
This page was prepared by Rick Mutton.
Page revised: 14 March 2026
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