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Henry Smalley Rungay
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Pharmacist, municipal official, MLA (1949), MLA (1950-1953).
Born in London, England in 1888, he received his early education there and after a brief career as a sailor, came to Newdale in 1906. He graduated from the University of Manitoba as a pharmaceutical chemist and operated a drug store in Newdale for over 30 years.
He served as Secretary-Treasurer of the Rural Municipality of Harrison in 1918 and a member of the board for the Newdale Consolidated School District. He served the Red Cross and several other organizations. He was President of the Marquette Liberal Association (1934-1948) and stood as a Liberal-Progressive candidate for the Minnedosa constituency in the 1936 and 1941 provincial general elections. He was one of the early members of the Manitoba Municipal Secretary-Treasurers Association, was elected its Vice-President in 1934 and President in 1937. After his two years in that office he became Secretary-Treasurer of the Association and continued in this capacity until November 1948 when he was elected to the Manitoba Legislature as Liberal-Progressive member for Minnedosa constituency. Re-elected in 1949, he was defeated in the 1953 provincial election.
He and wife Leado Beryl Hunter (1888-1978) had two children: Marion Lucylle Rungay (1914-?, wife of Albert Sidney McFeetors and Harvey Sundell) and Henry “Hank” Rungay. He was a member of Odd Fellows, COOF, and Masons. Starting in 1933, he contributed information to The Manitoba Office Page in the Western Municipal News magazine and, the next summer, he took over as correspondent and carried on the page for fifteen years.
He died at Brandon on 23 November 1955 and was buried in the Rosewood Memorial Gardens.
Birth registrations [Marion Lucy Rungay, Henry Rungay], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
1931 Canada census, Ancestry.
Marriage registration [Marion Lucille Rungay, Albert Sidney McFeetors], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
“H. S. Rungay dies at Brandon,” Winnipeg Free Press, 24 November 1955, page 13.
Obituary, Western Municipal News, December 1955, page 384.
Obituary [Leado Beryl Rungay], Brandon Sun, 14 August 1978, page 12.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 21 April 2026
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