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John Thomas Haig (1877-1962)

Click to enlargeLawyer, MLA (1914-1915), MLA (1921-1922), MLA (1923-1927), MLA (1927-1932), MLA (1933-1936), Senator.

Born on 15 December 1877, at Colborne, Ontario, son of Joseph Haig and Elizabeth Broatch, he was educated at the Alexander (Manitoba) Public School and the University of Manitoba (BA). He was a member of the legal firm of Campbell, Pitblado, Haig, Montague & Drummond Hay. He was Vice-President of the Equitable Trust Company.

He served for eight years as a member of the Winnipeg Public School Board, and later Chairman of that Board.

On 16 March 1907, he married Josephine M. Dickie, daughter of James H. Dickie, of Winnipeg. They had two children: James Campbell Haig and Elizabeth Clinkskill Haig. He was President of the Manitoba Curling Association and President of the Assiniboia Lawn-Bowling Club. Presbyterian. He lived at 73 Chestnut Street, Winnipeg.

He was first elected for Assiniboia to the Manitoba Legislature at the July 1914 general election. A Conservative, he became leader of his party after the election of 1922.

Sources:

The Canadian Parliamentary Guide, 1915.

Ramsay Cook (editor), The Dafoe-Sifton Correspondence, 1919-1927. Manitoba Record Society, 1966, page 287.

Profile revised: 23 November 2008

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