Businessman.
Born at Vaughan, Ontario on 7 February 1862, son of Andrew Ramsay and Hannah Keffer, he came to Manitoba and worked as a merchant at Virden. He returned briefly to Ontario where, on 8 September 1891, he married Elizabeth Burkholder (1861-1938) at Woodbridge. They returned to Manitoba, moved to Dauphin in 1898, and opened a dry goods store. In 1920, he constructed a large department store there. He had two children at Virden: Margaret Hannah Ramsay (1895-?) and Wilfred Edwin Ramsay (1897-?) and two at Dauphin: Ella Murielle Ramsay (1900-1959, wife of William Robert Carnwith) and Mary Ramsay (1904-?). His whereabouts after the mid-1920s are presently unknown but he is believed to have died in 1946.
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Ramsay-Wright Building / Eaton’s Department Store (Main Street North, Dauphin)
Ontario marriage registration, Ancestry.
1901 Canada census, Automated Genealogy.
1916 and 1921 Canada censes, Ancestry.
“Progress of a quarter century,” Dauphin Herald and Press, 2 November 1922, pages 3-5.
Ella Murielle Ramsay, Ancestry.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 19 December 2020
Memorable Manitobans
This is a collection of noteworthy Manitobans from the past, compiled by the Manitoba Historical Society. We acknowledge that the collection contains both reputable and disreputable people. All are worth remembering as a lesson to future generations.
Search the collection by word or phrase, name, place, occupation or other text:
Custom SearchBrowse surnames beginning with:
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | Y | ZBrowse deaths occurring in:
1978 | 1979 | 1980 | 1981 | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024
Send corrections and additions to this page
to the Memorable Manitobans Administrator at biographies@mhs.mb.caCriteria for Memorable Manitobans | Suggest a Memorable Manitoban | Firsts | Acknowledgements
Help us keep
history alive!
