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Founded in 1883 as the Women’s Hospital Aid Society, this organization was incorporated on 18 March 1903 by a Special Act of the Manitoba Legislature. In 1906, the first Convalescent Home was opened on McDermot Avenue, operating there until October 1908 when it moved to 698 Elgin Avenue, the following year expanding into an adjoining house. In 1914, the Convalescent Home of Winnipeg was incorporated. In 1915, it moved to 855-857 Bannatyne Avenue.
In 1917, the Keeley Institute, a former home for alcoholics at 676 Jessie Avenue, was purchased and reopened as the Convalescent Home of Winnipeg. In 1965, the building was demolished and replaced with the present structure.
In 2021, the organization received an MHS Centennial Organization Award.
Period
President
1903
Mrs. A. T. Cowley
1904
Mrs. F. W. Knight
1905
Georgiana Gove Wood (c1858-1921)
1906
Margaret Hannah Strang Allan (1842-1921)
1907-1913
Georgiana Gove Wood (c1858-1921)
1914-1915
Jessie Winter Macvicar Duncan (1874-1930)
1916-1917
Mrs. H. D. Patterson
1918
Mrs. Dunbar Hudson
1919-1933
Edith MacTavish Rogers (1876-1947)
1934-1936
Ethel Louise Armstrong Botterell (1875-1957)
1937-1945
Dorothy Emma Elizabeth James Hoskin (1889-1952)
1946-1948
Elsie Gordon Clearihue Briggs (1877-1958)
1949-1952
Dorothy Emma Elizabeth James Hoskin (1889-1952)
1953
Elsie Gordon Clearihue Briggs (1877-1958)
1954-1958
Ruby Louise Brown Locke (1884-1982)
1959-1965
Mrs. William Gilliland
1966-1967
Mrs. I. M. Barton
1967-1969
Jean Machray Newman (1907-1998)
1969-1970
Mrs. M. G. Lewis
1970-1972
Mrs. J. Sands
1973-1974
Mrs. G. Phillips
1975-1978
Jean Machray Newman (1907-1998)
1978-1980
Mrs. D. G. Stone
1980-1982
Mrs. D. G. Robertson
100 Years of Caring: The History of the Convalescent Home of Winnipeg, 1883-1983 by Lesley Thomson, edited by Maureen Kennedy. Convalescent Home of Winnipeg Archives Committee, 1982.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 23 September 2022
