Memorable Manitobans: Arthur Vincent Rampton (c1920-2000)

Dairyman.

Born in the Spruce Creek area of Manitoba around 1920, son of English immigrants Vernon Harry Rampton and Elizabeth Vincent. He began his farm after returning from five years’ service during the Second World War, during which he was mentioned in dispatches. He raised one of the top-producing Guernsey dairy herds in Canada, the produce of which he sold at the family’s Golden Guernsey Jug Store. He became involved with the Manitoba Milk Producers marketing board in 1975 and spent a decade as its Chairman. In 1986 he became chairman of the Dairy Bureau of Canada. He was named Mr. Manitoba Farmer in 1970 and was inducted into the Manitoba Agricultural Hall of Fame. He and wife Nada Alice Wilkinson (1918-2000) had three sons and a daughter. He died at Dauphin, Manitoba on 19 September 2000.

Source:

Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 29 September 2000, page B9.

We thank Pat Allan for providing information used in this profile.

This profile was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Profile revised: 14 March 2010

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