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Presidents | Southwest Branch
This organization, based in Winnipeg with branches at several places around the province, was established in 1976.
Period
President
1976-1980
Eric Leonard Jonasson (1948-1998)
1980-1981
Arthur Gordon Pruden (1920-2000)
1981-1983
Susan Cote
1983-1985
Ruth Mary Breckman (1932-2017)
1985
Pat Thomaschewski
1985-1986
Elizabeth Briggs
1986-1987
Ernest McCallum
1987-1989
Kathy Stokes
1989-1990
Carolyn Lumsden
1990-1991
Thelma Finlay
1991-1993
Don Hyde
1993-1995
Daryl Dumanski
1995-1997
Ruth Mary Breckman (1932-2017)
1997-1999
Chris Irwin
1999-2001
Geoffrey Lambert (?-2015)
2001-2003
Bob Stokes
2003-2006
Jayne Paradis
2006-2010
Joan Whiston
2010-2013
Kathy Stokes
2013-2017
Jim Oke
2017-2019
Jayne Paradis
2019-2020
Gordon McBean
2020-2023
Chris Irwin
This branch of the MGS, based in Brandon, was established in 1978 as the Brandon & District Branch.
Branch Presidents
Period
Branch President
1978
Blair Loree
1979
John Gross
1980
Thomas Stacey
1981-1982
Ernest McCallum
1983
Muriel Bremner
1984
Alvaretta McMannis
1985
Gertrude Gross
1986
Thomas Stacey
1987-1989
Ken Hyndman
1990
Thomas Stacey
1991-1993
Jim Wall
1994-1995
Wayne Digby
1996-1999
Jim Wall
1999-2000
Lorne Hill
2001-2003
Jim Wall
2004-2006
Eleanor Burch
2007-2008
Dennis Descoteu
2008-2009
Graham Switzer
2010-2013
Eleanor Burch
2014-2017
Laura Crookshanks
2017-?
George Mackay
See also:
Obituary [Ruth Mary Breckman], Winnipeg Free Press, 23 December 2017.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 11 May 2023
