John HADDOW (1855-1932) Born at Banffshire, Scotland on 17 August 1855, he was a member of the Glasgow police force. He immigrated to Manitoba in 1882 and farmed in the Rosser district until 1913. At that point he retired and moved to Brooklands. On 31 …
James Quinn GALLAGHER (1863-1935) Born in New Brunswick on 31 October 1863, he was the son of Patrick Gallagher (c1827-1901) and Catherine Maher (c1833-1912). He came to Winnipeg with his father in 1889 where he was an early butcher. He was later head of the …
Eva (FINKELSTEIN) ABREMOVICH (1877-1953) Born at Radishevka, Volhynia Province, Russia on 10 June 1877, daughter of Tevel Finkelstein (1840-1929, one of the early Jewish arrivals in Winnipeg in 1882) and Rytsa Gold (1843-1919). She arrived in Canada in 1883 with her mother and sister. She …
George Alexander Eakins (1877-1957) Born in Strathroy, Ontario on 01 September 1877, he came to Manitoba and attended Manitoba College. He was called to the Manitoba Bar in 1910 and moved to Minnedosa. In 1915, he was appointed a crown attorney for the northern judicial …
Born in Combermere, Ontario on 08 March 1866, he was the son of Calvin Wesley Dafoe (1842-1916) and Mary Anne Elcome (1840-1913), and brother of Rance G. Dafoe. In 1890, he married Alice Parmelee (1866-1961) of Ottawa, Ontario with whom he had seven children: Mary …
John Orchard CADHAM (1855-1933) Born near London, Ontario on 14 August 1855, brother to James Henry Cadham, he established a business at Port Dalhousie, Ontario before coming to Manitoba in 1882 and establishing the Cadham Hardware Company at Portage la Prairie. On 12 August 1879, …
Thomas Erroll BABB (1894-1962) Born in Saskatchewan on 11 February 1894, son of Thomas Charles Babb (1863-1944) and Emma Best (1869-1950). He moved at an early age to a farm in Manitoba. On 22 July 1926, he married Beatrice Emily Finch (1898-1973) and they had …
Peter MacDonald ABEL (1890-1952) Born at Parimaribo, Dutch Guiana on 05 May 1890, son of John Smith Abel and Isabella Pells, he moved to the United States at the age of 6 following the death of his father. He lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts for ten …
Benjamin Bernard ZAIDMAN (1922-2008) Born on Powers Street in Winnipeg on 29 October 1922, one of six children born to Harry Zaidman and Goldie Sitner. He left home at 15 and worked as a general store clerk in the Manitoba towns of Hodgson, Griswold, and …
William Valentine YACULA (c1908-1958) Born in Ukraine around 1908, he was the son of Sam Yacula (c1880-1948) and Sophie Bodnarchuk (c1880-1951). He came to Manitoba at a young age and attended Elma School, Teulon Hight School, Manitoba Normal School, United College (now the University of …