William Johnston Tupper (1862-1947)

Lawyer, MLA (1921-1922), Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (1934-1940).

Born at Halifax, Nova Scotia, 29 June 1862, son of Sir Charles Tupper and Frances Amelie Morst, brother of James Stewart Tupper, he was educated at Upper Canada College (Toronto), and Harvard Law School. He was called to the Nova Scotia Bar in 1885 and the Manitoba Bar in 1886. He was made a King’s Counsel in 1912 and elected a Bencher of the Law Society of Manitoba in 1915 and served as President of the latter from 1931 to 1933. During the 1885 North West Rebellioni, he served as a private in the Halifax Battalion.

He was married to Margaret MacDonald, daughter of the Chief Justice MacDonald of Nova Scotia. They had two sons and three daughters. He was Honorary President of the Army and Navy Veterans in Canada. He was elected to the Manitoba Legislature for Winnipeg in 1920 and served a single term. He was a member of the Executive Committee of the Synod of the Diocese of Rupert’s Land and the Council of St. John’s College. He was a member of the Manitoba Club, St. Charles Country Club, Adanac Club (of which he was its first President), and Southwood Golf Club. Conservative. Anglican. He lived at “Elmhurst” on Armstrong’s Point in Winnipeg. The University of Manitoba gave him an honorary doctorate in 1938.

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Profile revised: 31 January 2010

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