W. Courtney Wroth (1880-1954)

Municipal official.

He was born in England and carne.to Canada in 1901 after serving in the Boer War. He was Reeve of the Rural Municipality of Ellice from 1913 to 1939 and in 1945 retired to England. Wroth was active in the Union of Manitoba Municipalities and served as its president in 1931, 1932 and 1933, the only man to hold the office for three years. He died in England in late 1954, survived by his wife, a son and a daughter.

Source:

Western Municipal News, November 1954, page 318.

Profile revised: 31 October 2009

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