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Edwin Sydney Woodiwiss
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Real estate agent.
Born at Derby, England on 13 December 1871, seventh son of railway contractor Sir Abraham Woodiwiss, he attended school at Harrow, England then, from January 1900, served with the Imperial Yeomanry in South Africa for two and a half years.
In 1903, he emigrated to Canada and cultivated 800 acres of farmland near Binscarth for seven years. In the Fall of 1910, he moved to Winnipeg and embarked in the real estate business. He was a member of the Masons, Military Institute, and Anglican church. He was a justice of the peace in Manitoba. During the First World War, he served as a Major in the Canadian Army Medical Corps. He was made a MBE in 1919. He returned to England in 1922 where he was a well-known breeder of Abyssinian and Siamese cats.
He died on 14 December 1940.
The Story of Manitoba by F. H. Schofield, Winnipeg: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1913.
Attestation papers, Canadian Expeditionary Force, Library and Archives Canada.
Who's Who and Why, Volumes 6 and 7, 1915-1916, page 748.
The Woodiwiss Influence, Cat-O-Pedia, 12 December 2019.
We thank Gill Hutchinson and Oliver Bernuetz (Legislative Library of Manitoba) for providing additional information used here.m
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 19 September 2025
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