Businessman.
Born at Cockermouth, England on 3 June 1875, son of H. P. Wicks and Janette Hird, he studied in a private school at Keswick until the age of 16 when he took work as a clerk in a real estate office in London. Finding the salary too low, he emigrated to Canada and was a farmhand at Hamiota for a while before working as a bookkeeper and carpenter. In 1903 he moved to Shoal Lake where he opened an agricultural implements and livestock business as a manager for J. H. McLean.
On 20 September 1904, he married Eva Maude McLean (?-1980) at Shoal Lake. They had four children: Frederick Oscar Wicks (1905-1991), Olga Marguerita Wicks (1906-?, wife of Clifton Lewis), Evelyn Marion Wicks (1917-?, wife of Henri Joseph Francis Bourgeault), and Philip Francis Wicks (1922-?). The family attended the Anglican church. He was a member of the Masons (Shoal Lake Lodge), President of the Shoal Lake Board of Trade, and Mayor of Shoal Lake (1913-1918). He served as the Returning Officer for the Beautiful Plains constituency in the 1907 provincial general election.
He died at his Winnipeg home, 1 Chateau Apartments, on 9 November 1960 and was buried in the Brookside Cemetery.
Birth registrations [Frederick Oscar Wicks, Olga Marguerita Wicks, Evelyn Marian Wicks, Philip Francis Wicks], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
The Story of Manitoba by F. H. Schofield, Winnipeg: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1913.
Marriage registration [Evelyn Marion Wicks, Henri Joseph Francis Bourgeault], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
“Ex-Shoal Lake Mayor is dead,” Winnipeg Free Press, 10 November 1960, page 11.
Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 1 October 2023
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