Cleric.
Born at Kildonan in 1864, nephew of Samuel Pritchard Matheson, he was educated at St. John’s School and College, graduating in theology in 1899. He was ordained later that year and was Rector of St. Andrew’s-on-the-Red Anglican Church (1891-1894), St. Luke's Anglican Church at Souris (1894-1900), and St. Matthew's Anglican Church at Boissevain (1901-1905).
On leaving Boissevain in 1905, he came to Winnipeg as a lecturer at St. John’s College. In 1910 he was appointed Canon, and later Dean, of St. John’s Cathedral serving to 1934. He was a founding trustee of the Sir Hugh John Macdonald Memorial Hostel for Boys. He and wife Mary Metcalfe Anderson (1867-1939) had a daughter, Kathleen Mary Matheson Tomkins.
He died at his Winnipeg home, 172 Church Avenue, on 17 August 1947 and was buried in the St. John’s Cathedral Cemetery.
“Dean Matheson dies Sunday,” Winnipeg Free Press, 18 August 1947, page 7.
The Story of a Century: St. Luke's Anglican Church, Souris, Manitoba by the Vestry of St. Luke's Anglican Church, 1983, page 3.
Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.
We thank Nathan Kramer for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 29 April 2024
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