Grain company executive.
Born at St. Marys, Ontario on 15 June 1884, he came to western Canada around 1906. He was Secretary (1921-1951) and a director of the Canada West Grain Company and also a director of the Red River Grain Company and Brathwaites Limited. He and wife Ella Mae McEwen (1887-1984) had three children: Hugh McEwen, Mervyn McEwen, and Joyce McEwen (wife of ? Steen). He was a member of the Deer Lodge United Church and later the Norwood United Church. He died at the Grace Hospital on 22 December 1951 and was buried in the St. James Anglican Cemetery.
Death registration [George Arthur McEwen], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
“Grain executive G. A. McEwen dies, age 67,” Winnipeg Free Press, 24 December 1951, page 7.
Obituary [Ella Mae McEwen], Winnipeg Free Press, 28 February 1984, page 36.
Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 22 April 2024
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