Memorable Manitobans: Robert DuVal Guy (1912-1985)

Lawyer, judge.

Born in Winnipeg on 1 January 1912, son of Robert Dunbar Guy and Anna Corrine DuVal, he graduated from the Manitoba Law School in 1936. He practiced law with the firm of Guy, Chappell, Guy, Wilson & Coughlin. He was appointed a judge of the Manitoba Court of Appeal in 1961, from which he retired in 1980. He was Chairman of the Manitoba Electoral Boundary Commission in 1965, and was the first speaker at the St. Boniface Hospital Research Foundation’s annual dinners. He served as President of the St. Andrew’s Society of Winnipeg (1963 to 1964), the Manitoba Division of the CNIB, the Manitoba Progressive Conservative Association, and the Red River Writers; Chairman of the DuVal Foundation of Knox Church; and founder of the Armstrong’s Point Association. He was given a Manitoba Good Citizenship Award in 1974.

He died at Winnipeg on 5 December 1985.

Source:

Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 7 December 1985.

We thank William DuVal Guy, brother of R. D. Guy, for information used in this profile.

Profile revised: 19 October 2009

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