Aviator, businessman.
Born at Toronto, Ontario on 3 December 1913, he learned to fly while working for INCO at Coppercliffe, Ontario. During the Second World War he was a flying instructor for the Royal Canadian Air Force, becoming chief instructor of the Air Commonwealth Training Program. He moved to Winnipeg after the war and became a grain dealer, serving as President of Smith, Vincent and Company Limited from 1958.
He married war widow Patricia Milroy Murphy McIvor (1919-1989, wife of John Kitson McIvor, daughter of William Arthur Murphy) and adopted her son Kitson Vincent then they had four more children: Barry Vincent (1944-1989), Paul Vincent, Gerald Vincent, and Constance Vincent. Active in community philanthropy, he headed the Murphy Foundation, which contributed to many Winnipeg cultural institutions. He was a director of the Winnipeg Art Gallery and Vice-President of the Winnipeg General Hospital. He received a Distinguished Service Award from the University of Manitoba (1985). He was active in the summer life of Victoria Beach.
He died at Winnipeg on 10 November 1998.
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Village Green (RM of Victoria Beach)
“3 Winnipeg airmen killed in action aboard,” Winnipeg Tribune, 18 August 1942, page 11.
Obituary [Patricia Vincent], Winnipeg Free Press, 19 September 1989, page 34.
Obituary [Barry Vincent], Winnipeg Free Press, 30 October 1989, page 24.
Obituary [Arthur James Vincent], Winnipeg Free Press, 13 November 1998, page 36.
Dictionary of Manitoba Biography by John M. “Jack” Bumsted, Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 1999.
We thank James Arnett and Kitson Vincent for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 4 October 2023
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