Memorable Manitobans: Connie Shamanski McSweeney (1935-1999)

Social activist.

Born at Dauphin, Manitoba on 25 May 1935, she married in 1955 and moved to Winnipeg where she was a mother and homemaker. She was a co-founder of the Manitoba Society for Tourette Syndrome. She died at Steinbach, Manitoba on 3 January 1999

Sources:

Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 6 January 1999, page C12.

“Their good works live after them”, Winnipeg Free Press, 31 December 1999, page A9.

Profile revised: 27 October 2009

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