Lumberman, grain merchant.
Born at Bilborough, Nottinghamshire, England on 21 January 1861, son of John Hurt and Isabel Hurt, he went to sea at the age of 14 years and spent six years before coming to Manitoba and settling at Mountain City. In 1882 he built at grist mill at Waubeesh and operated it for two years. In the Fall of 1884 he went to Max Lake where he engaged in a saw mill business for three years and, in 1886, he built the first elevator at Boissevain, in partnership with T. E. Tetchell.
In 1891, he married Alice Mary Shaw (1861-1911) of Derbyshire, England. They had a daughter, Alice Selina Hurt (1891-1978). He served for many years on the Boissevain town council and was a member of the AF & AM (Doric Lodge No. 36). He was the Returning Agent for the Turtle Mountain constituency in the 1907 provincial general election.
He died on 27 November 1935 and was buried in the Boissevain and Morton Cemetery.
Birth registration [Alice Selina Hurt], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
A History of Manitoba: Its Resources and People by Prof. George Bryce, Toronto: The Canadian History Company, 1906.
Death registration [Alice Selina Hurt], British Columbia Vital Statistics.
Obituary [Alice S. Hurt], Winnipeg Free Press, 22 August 1978, page 111.
Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 1 October 2023
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