Memorable Manitobans: Rhodes Scholars of Manitoba

The Rhodes scholarships were established in 1902 by the estate of British-born, South African businessman Cecil John Rhodes (1853-1902) and the first awards in Canada were made in 1904. It enables recipients to study for two or three years at the University of Oxford and is widely considered the world’s most prestigious scholarship. The following students from Manitoba have been selected to receive a Rhodes scholarship.

Rhodes Scholar	Year
Arash Abizadeh	1992
Simon Abrahamson	1914
Robert James Adams	1970
Christopher Arthur Adamson (1887-1940)	1907
Hector Allard	1926
D. Trevor Anderson	1959
Hedly Auld	1976
Melissa Bailey	2011
John Robert Beattie (1911-1987)	1929
Stuart Eccles Beech	1906
Brian Bohunicky	1989
Lawrence Christopher Bonnycastle (1907-1998)	1929
Scott D. Boyd	1992
Norman Frank Cantor (1929-2004)	1954
William T. Cave	1939
Hart Duncan Clark	1937
Robert Alexander Coke	1972
James Elliott Coyne (1910-2012)	1931
John McCreary Coyne (1920-2005)	1940
Neil Edward Currie	1948
Adrian Cornelius de Hoog	1969
Alfred Ewart	1912
Avrum Fenson	1968
James Ross Francis	1952
Gilbert Allan Friesen	1960
David A. Golden (1920-2012)	1941
John King Gordon (1900-1989)	1921
Tyler Grant	2010
Arnold D. Heeney (1902-1970)	1923
Howard Robert Lawrence Henry (1884-1955)	1908
Morley Donald Hollenberg	1964
Frank Geoffrey Hooton	1947
Claudia Hudspeth	1997
William Burton Hurd (1894-1950)	1917
John E. Hutchings	1973
Erskine Wallace Ireland (1895-?) of Carberry	1916
Prabhat K. S. Jha	1987
A. Wallace Johnson	1924
Skuli Johnson (1888-1955)	1909
Frank W. O. Jones	1934
Raed Joundi	2008
Baruch Knei-Paz (B. Knapheis)	1961
Henry Koschitzky	1958
Sara Kreindler	1999
Francis Bastin “Frank” Lamont (1933-1998)	1956
Ruston William Lawson	1938
Alana Lajoie-O’Malley	2006
Aleksandra Leligdowicz	2004
Morley Semmens Lougheed (1892-1974)	1915
Daniel Lussier	2005
Peyton Vaughan Lyon (1921-2011)	1949
John MacLean (1882-1977)	1904
Warren Elmer Norris Magnusson	1967
Akosua Matthews	2007
James C. Matthews	1975
Mark Matz	1996
Donald G. McGregor	1917
F. J. McLean	1935
John Ross McLean	1927
Andrew Howard Miller (1886-1962)	1907
Daniel Albert Bernard Molgat	1955
Francis William Orde Morton	1962
William Lewis Morton (1908-1980)	1932
Robert Joseph Moyse	1946
William F. Nason	1913
William Franklin Wymark Neville	1963
William “Bill” Norrie (1929-2012)	1953
Davide Panagia	1993
Marcello Panagia	2000
Wilson D. Parasiuk	1966
Thomas E. Patterson	1982
Edward Bruce Pitblado (1896-1977)	1920
Joseph B. Reid	1935
Jody Reimer	2011
Graham Reynolds	2005
William John Rose (1885-1968)	1905
John P. Schioler	1957
Daniel Selchen	1971
David Selchen	1997
Eldon Rooklidge Siddall (c1889-1961)	1911
Karlee Silver	2001
Samir Sinha	2002
Debra Katherine Slade	1981
Philip W. Slayton	1965
Lisa Smirl	1997
Charles Rhodes Smith (1896-1993)	1919
Murray Rhodes Smith (1930-2002)	1950
Graham Spry (1900-1983)	1922
Graham Steele	1984
Kerry Stirton	1985
George Percy Raymond “Pete” Tallin (1894-1970)	1918
John M. Teakles	1936
Joseph Thorarinn Thorson (1889-1978)	1910
Aaron Trachtenberg	2007
David McIntosh Turnbull (1906-1995)	1928
Boris William Tyzuk	1974
Paul E. Vogt	1983
Jillian Welch	1980
Wilfred Westgate	1925
Gregory John Wilson	1969
Carl Arthur Winkler	1933
Ariel Zylberman	2002

Sources:

The Carberry Plains: 75 Years of Progress. [Manitoba Legislative Library, F5648.C36 Car]

“Aaron Trachtenberg wins Rhodes Scholarship,” University of Winnipeg News Release, 19 November 2007.

University of Manitoba Rhodes Scholars.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 30 December 2022

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