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Anne Marie Collier Whitehead
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Born at Arizona on 5 May 1914, daughter of Anne Macleod (1886-1926) and Charles Wesley Jackson (1876-1949), she moved with her family to Sidney where she was raised and attended Sidney School. After her marriage on 23 June 1934 to Thomas Benjamin “Ben” Collier (1902-1983), she moved to Austin where they ran a service station and small restaurant. In 1958, the couple opened a new location on the Trans-Canada Highway. They retired to Portage la Prairie in 1965.
In retirement, she became a historian and writer. Her book A Rear View Mirror: A History of the Austin and Surrounding Districts was published in 1967, followed by History of Portage la Prairie in 1970, and My Roadside Restaurant in 1988, the same year that she married Ernest William “Ernie” Whitehead (1918-2008). She also helped to write the lyrics for the Manitoba centennial song and the Portage la Prairie centennial song. A monument in her honour was unveiled at Jackson Lake, south of Sidney, in 1970.
She died at Portage la Prairie on 14 January 1991 and was buried in the Austin Cemetery.
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Anne Collier Monument (Municipality of North Norfolk)
Birth registration [Annie Jackson], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
1921 Canada census, Ancestry.
Marriage registration [Anne Marie Jackson, Thomas Benjamin Collier], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 16 January 1991, page 42.
Dictionary of Manitoba Biography by John M. “Jack” Bumsted, Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, December 1999, 288 pages.
Obituary [Ernest William Whitehead], Winnipeg Free Press, 30 August 2008.
Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.
We thank Arlene Jarema for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 11 June 2025
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