Memorable Manitobans: William George Rogers (1854-1933)

Farmer, municipal official, real estate agent.

Born in Leeds County, Ontario on 27 August 1854, son of Thomas and Eliza Rogers, he was educated at Athens, Ontario. He began farming in Manitoba in 1878, where he served as Reeve of the Rural Municipality of North Cypress, and a member of the executive of the Manitoba Grain Growers’ Association. He moved to British Columbia in 1907 and founded the real estate business of Rogers, Nesbitt & McRae. On 14 May 1890, he married Margaret Ann Stinson (1870-?) at Brandon, Manitoba. They had one son and eight daughters. Rogers died on 6 September 1933, in the Rural Municipality of Daly, at the home of one of his daughters.

Sources:

Marriage registration, Manitoba Vital Statistics.

1901 Canada census, Automated Genealogy.

Who’s Who in Western Canada: A Biographical Dictionary of Notable Living Men and Women of Western Canada, Volume 1, edited by C. W. Parker, Vancouver: Canadian Press Association, 1911.

“First Carberry settler dies”, Winnipeg Free Press, 8 September 1933, page 6.

This profile was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Profile revised: 18 March 2012

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