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William Gilbert Weir
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Farmer, MP (1930-1935), MP (1936-1940), MP (1940-1945), MP (1945-1949), MP (1949-1953), MP (1953-1957).
Born at Port Perry, Ontario on 1 July 1896, son of William M. Weir (1860-1950) and Rosa Jane Roberts (1863-1957), he attended the Tobacco Creek School and Manitoba Agricultural College (BSA). He became a farmer at Winnipeg, serving as Director of the Manitoba Wheat Pool (1924-1930) and Vice-President of the United Farmers of Manitoba (1923-1924).
In 1930, he was elected to the House of Commons for Macdonald and was re-elected 1935, 1940, 1945, and 1949. He was re-elected for Portage-Neepawa in 1953, defeated in 1957. He served as Chief Government Whip (1945-1957) and Parliamentary Assistant to Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent (1953-1957). He retired to Fort Garry in 1957.
In December 1948, he married Lila Bernice McCullough (1906-1996). They had no children. He was a member of the University of Manitoba Alumni Association and Fort Garry United Church.
He died at the Victoria General Hospital on 12 December 1971 and was buried in the Greenwood Cemetery.
The Canadian Directory of Parliament, 1867-1967, edited by J. K. Johnson, Public Archives of Canada, Ottawa [Library and Archives Canada], 1968.
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 14 December 1971, page 34.
Obituary [Lila Bernice Weir], Winnipeg Free Press, 7 May 1996, page 30.
Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 21 October 2023
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