Manitoba Organization: Manitoba Scientific and Historical Society / Manitoba Historical Society

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Founding Members (1879-1880)

John Farquhar Bain (1849-1905)

Andrew Graham Ballenden Bannatyne (1829-1889)

Samuel Lawrence Bedson (1842-1891)

Alexander Begg (1839-1897)

Charles Napier Bell (1854-1936)

Samuel Clarke Biggs (1851-1911)

Robert Bourne

Walter Robert Bown (1828-1903)

George Bryce (1844-1931)

D. M. Campbell

Felix Chenier (1843-1910)

A. Christie

Francis Ignatino Clarke (1849-1916)

Donald Codd (c1845-1896)

William Coldwell (1834-1907)

William Cowan (1818-1902)

Abraham Cowley (1816-1887)

Hugh S. Donaldson (1829-1904)

Joseph Doupe (1837-1910)

Henry Mowat Drummond (1848-1917)

Arthur F. Eden (c1852-?)

Loftus Morton Fortier (1858-1933)

Octave Fortin (1842-1927)

R. E. W. Goodridge

John Grisdale (1845-1922)

George Henry Ham (1847-1926)

Joseph James Hargrave (1841-1891)

Thomas Hart (1835-1912)

Rice Meredith Howard (c1849-1887)

Hector Mansfield Howell (1842-1918)

Capt. Owen E. Hughes

R. H. Hunter

Colin Inkster (1843-1934)

Edward Worrell Jarvis (?-1894)

R. H. Kenning

Albert Clements Killam (1849-1908)

Alphonse Alfred Clement LaRivière (1842-1925)

James Spencer Lynch (1841-1894)

Duncan MacArthur (1840-1907)

Samuel Pritchard Matheson (1852-1942)

Alexander McArthur (1843-1887)

Allan McDonald

Gilbert McMicken (1813-1891)

Rev. Edward Morrow (deceased c1881)

John Norquay (1841-1889)

Walter Reginald Nursey (1846-1927)

J. Outram

James Dallas O’Meara (1849-1901)

Silas Richard Parsons (1854-1932)

William Pearce (1848-1930)

William Cyprian Pinkham (1844-1928)

Robert Dennis Richardson (1854-1946)

James Robertson (1839-1902)

Arthur Wellington Ross (1846-1901)

W. H. Ross

James Hamilton Rowan (c1831-?)

George Roy

Joseph Royal (1837-1902)

William Osborne Smith (1831-1887)

Thomas Spence (1832-1900)

James Stewart (1826-1911)

Peter R. Sutherland

C. Sweeney

James Wickes Taylor (1820-1893)

Arthur Henry Whitcher (1840-1931)

Edmund Burke Wood (1820-1882)

Presidents / Chairs

The presiding position in the Manitoba Historical Society was the President until 2024, when it was renamed Chair.

Edmund Burke Wood (1879-1881)	William Cowan (1881-1882)	Alexander McArthur (1882-1884)	George Bryce (1884-1887)
Thomas Hart (1887-1888)	William Davis Ardagh (1888-1889)	Charles Napier Bell (1889-1891)	John McBeth (1891-1893)
Andrew Browning Baird (1893-1895)	George Jackson Laird (1895-1897)	William Clark (1897-1899)	William Alfred Burman (1899-1901)
John Robert Grant (1901-1903)	David Laird (1903-1905)	George Bryce (1905-1913)	Charles Napier Bell (1913-1929)
David Alexander Stewart (1929-1934)	Ronald Oliver MacFarlane (1934-1935)	Alexander Shirriff Morrison (1935-1938)	Ronald Oliver MacFarlane (1934-1935)
Margaret Stovel McWilliams (1944-1948)	William Douglas (1948-1951)	Ross Brough Mitchell (1951-1953)	William Lewis Morton (1953-1955)
Anne Matheson Henderson (1955-1957)	Murray Hogg Campbell (1957-1959)	Herbert Douglas Kemp (1959-1961)	Paul Yuzyk (1961-1963)
Harry Clare Pentland (1963-1965)	Alice Evelyn Brown (1965-1967)	Joseph E. Martin (1967-1968)	William Steward Martin (1968-1971)
Arthur Gordon Pruden (1971-1973)	Edward Charles Shaw (1973-1976)	David John McDowell (1976-1978)	Alan Livingstone Crossin (1978-1980)
William Paul Thompson (1980-1982)	Shirlee Anne Smith (1982-1984)	Margaret Aileen Hunt Carter (1984-1986)	Greg Thomas (1986-1988)
Rosemary Malaher (1988-1990)	William J. Fraser (1990-1992)	Douglas Taylor (1992-1994)	Lily Stearns (1994-1996)
Céline Marie Power Kear (1996-1998)	John Campbell Lehr (1998-2000)	Jim Blanchard (2000-2002)	Steven A. Place (2002-2004)
Gordon Goldsborough (2004-2006)	John Michael Bumsted (2006-2008)	Harry W. Duckworth (2008-2011)	Annabelle Mays (2011-2013)
James Kostuchuk (2013-2014)	Harry W. Duckworth (2014-2015)	Gary McEwen (2015-2017)	Alan Mason (2017-2019)
Gordon Goldsborough (2019-2022)	Dan Furlan (2022-2024)	Lawrence Prout (2024-?)

Office Locations

Period	Address (Winnipeg)
1969	147 James Street
1970-1986	M211 - 190 Rupert Avenue
1987-1992	314 - 63 Albert Street
1993-2004	470 - 167 Lombard Avenue
2004-2007	304 - 250 McDermot Avenue
2007-2015	61 Carlton Street
2015-present	710 - 1 Lombard Place

See also:

The Manitoba Historical Society: A Centennial History by Gerald Friesen
This article was originally published in Manitoba History in 1982 to mark the centennial of the Society’s founding, in 1879.

The First Half Century: A Sketch of the Early Years of the Historical and Scientific Society of Manitoba by David A. Stewart, MD
Manitoba Pageant, Volume 24, Number 3, Spring 1979

Presidents of the Manitoba Historical Society
This list contains all the people who have served as President of the Society since its founding in 1879.

The Manitoba Historical and Scientific Society Act (1879)
The “Historical and Scientific Society of Manitoba” came into being when an Act was assented in the provincial legislature in June 1879.

Annual Reports
The Society publishes an Annual Report on its activities. Copies are available here.

Manitoba Organization: Manitoba Record Society

Manitoba Organization: Natural History Society of Manitoba / Manitoba Naturalists Society / Nature Manitoba

Sources:

Archives of Manitoba, Manitoba Historical Society Fond, MG10 F2, Membership Book 1879-1895.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 9 November 2024