Memorable Manitobans: Bernard Monroe “Barney” Stitt (1881-1949)

Municipal official, MP (1930-1935).

Born at Spencerville, Ontario on 17 October 1880, son of Robert Marshall Stitt and Fanny Adele Turner, he attended school at Spencerville, then became a forest engineer at The Pas, Manitoba in 1909 and a hotel owner in 1935. He served overseas with the Canadian Expeditionary Force in World War One, was the Mayor of The Pas from 1921 to 1930, was elected to the House of Commons for Nelson in 1930, defeated in 1935, elected for Churchill in 1935.

He married Gladys West on 4 July 1910. Their two children drowned at Wanless Lake near The Pas.

He died on 21 March 1942 at the Winnipeg General Hospital, after an operation.

Sources:

Western Municipal News, April 1942, page 89.

Birth registration, Ancestry.

“B. M. Stitt, Pioneer of The Pas, Dies” Winnipeg Tribune, 21 March 1942. [Manitoba Legislative Library, Biographical Scrapbook B9]

Profile revised: 10 October 2009

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