This non-profit organization was established at Portage la Prairie on 20 January 1972. It promoted vacations on Manitoba farms belonging to its members.
Period
President
1972-1976
Eugene Hausknecht Lange (1905-1989)
1976-1979
?
1979-1983
Kathleen Mildred Emily Lewis Jorgenson (1927-2018)
Period
Secretary
1972-1976
Frances Gwendoline Wilson “Gwen” Parker (1927-2024)
Period
Coordinator / Executive Director
1972-1983
Marguerite R. Manning (1923-2005)
1983-?
“Now you can have a vacation,” Stonewall Argus and Teulon Times, 9 February 1972, page 5.
Great Human Heart II: A History of the Manitoba Women's Institute, 1980-2000, Manitoba Women's Institute, 2000, page 25.
“Farms offer a different kind of vacation,” Stonewall Argus and Teulon Times, 4 July 1984, page 23.
Obituary [Marguerite R. Manning], Winnipeg Free Press, 6 August 2005.
Farm Vacations, IrvKroeker.com, 13 September 2021.
We thank Sharon Eadie for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 25 February 2025
