Educator.
Born in Ontario in 1875, he came to Manitoba where he served as Principal of Headingley School (1902-1903), Selkirk School (1904-1905), Gretna School (1906-1908), and Carman School (1908-1920). He married schoolteacher Winnifred Gilmore (1884-1954) and they had a daughter, Kathleen Margaret “Kaye” Tufts (1910-1998, wife of Cecil Lorne Harding Laycock). He died at Carman on 4 April 1921 and was buried in the Greenwood Cemetery.
1901 Canada census, Automated Genealogy.
Annual Reports of the Manitoba Department of Education, Manitoba Legislative Library.
Birth registration [Kathleen Margaret Tufts], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Death registration [Norman Benson Tufts], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Marriage registration [Kathleen Margaret Tufts, Cecil Lorne Harding Laycock], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Obituary [Kathleen Margaret Laycock], Winnipeg Free Press, 28 November 1998, page 55.
Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.
We thank Nathan Kramer and George Stewart for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 10 April 2025
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