Memorable Manitobans: John Wesley Alexander “Jack” Muirhead (1906-1996)
Educator, school inspector.
Born in the Bear Creek district of Manitoba on 4 January 1906, son of John Muirhead and Jennie Lobb, he taught in schools around rural Manitoba, including service as the Principal of Hartney School (1948-1950). He was Assistant Principal of Miles MacDonell Collegiate in the early 1950s. In late 1955, he was appointed a Manitoba School Inspector, based at Steinbach, later transferring to Charleswood. On 29 June 1931, he married Georgina Isobel Hoyes at Winnipeg. They had one son, John Richard Keith Muirhead (1934-2009). He retired in 1972 and moved to Richmond, British Columbia, where he died on 30 July 1996. He was buried in the Gladstone Cemetery.
Sources:
Birth and marriage registrations, Manitoba Vital Statistics.
1911 Canada census, Automated Genealogy.
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 23 October 1996, page 31.
Obituary [Keith Muirhead], Winnipeg Free Press, 15 August 2009.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 2 April 2013
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