Manitoba Organization: Manitoba Medical Association / Doctors Manitoba

Founded formally in 1908 as the Manitoba Medical Association, representing licensed physicians in Manitoba, its origins go back to 22 May 1890, with the formation of the Provincial Medical Association of Manitoba, under President Marshall Macklin, First Vice-President J. H. O’Donnell, Second Vice-President J. W. Good, and Secretary-Treasurer J. R. Jones. In 2008, the organization changed its name to Doctors Manitoba.

Presidents of the Manitoba Medical Association

Period	President
1891	John Harrison O’Donnell (1838-1912)
1908-1909	James Robert Jones (c1852-1916)
1909-1910	William Harvey Smith (?-1940)
1910-1911	Frank S. Keele (c1859-1918)
1911-1912	Herbert Peter Howell Galloway (1866-1939)
1912-1913	John Sutherland Matheson (1873-1942)
1913-1914	Jasper Halpenny (1869-1930)
1914-1915	Herbert Andrew Gordon (1868-1942)
1915-1916	John Silas Poole (1872-1963)
1916-1917	James McKenty (1866-1940)
1917-1918	Daniel Gordon Ross (1867-1951)
1918-1919	George Darling Shortreed (1870-1940)
1919-1920	John Alexander Gunn (1878-1960)
1921-1922	Thomas Glendenning Hamilton (1873-1935)
1922-1923	Sidney J. S. Peirce (c1876-1951)
1923-1924	Gordon Samuel Fahrni (1887-1995)
1924-1925	William Arthur Gardner (1877-1967)
1925-1926	David Alexander Stewart (1874-1937)
1926-1927	J. D. McQueen
1927-1928	H. W. Lewis
1928-1929	E. J. Boardman
1929-1930	Charles A. MacKenzie (1870-1953)
1930-1931	Henry Oliver McDiarmid (1882-1952)
1931-1932	R. B. Mitchell
1932-1933	Adam Fisher Menzies (1887-1958)
1933-1934	J. C. McMillan
1934-1935	G. W. Rogers
1935-1936	F. G. McGuinness
1936-1937	George Clingan (1868-1944)
1937-1938	C. W. Burns
1938-1939	Wilfrid Seymour Peters (1888-1956)
1939-1940	W. E. Campbell
1940-1941	Edward Lachlan Ross (1902-1974)
1941-1942	H. D. Kitchen
1942-1943	Francis Kidd “Frank” Purdie (1888-1956)
1943-1944	D. C. Aikenhead
1944-1945	S. Schultz
1945-1946	Patrick Herman “P. H.” McNulty (1894-1967)
1946-1947	J. R. Martin
1947-1948	R. W. Richardson
1948-1949	H. S. Evans
1949-1950	D. L. Scott
1950-1951	Edward Arnie Johnson (1902-1994)
1951-1952	A. M. Goodwin
1952-1953	Cornelius W. Wiebe (1893-1999)
1953-1954	Walter Felix Tisdale (1887-1960)
1954-1956	R. Lyons
1956-1957	John Edward Hudson (1917-2003)
1957-1958	C. B. Schoemperlen
1958-1959	Edward Arnie Johnson (1902-1994)
1959-1960	Frederick Gerard Allison (1904-1989)
1960-1961	H. L. McNicol
1961-1962	K. R. Trueman
1962-1963	K. I. Johnson
1963-1964	Lawrence Ruhaul Rabson (1910-1970)
1964-1965	C. M. Thomas
1965-1966	Donald Neil Campbell McIntyre (1914-2001)
1966-1967	G. E. Mosher
1967-1968	D. L. Kippen
1968-1969	D. M. McPhail
1969-1970	O. A. Schmidt
1970-1971	Robert Earl Beamish (1916-2001)
1971-1972	L. J. Stephen
1972-1973	P. Connelly
1973-1974	K. O. Wylie
1974-1975	P. G. W. Lommerse
1975-1976	C. E. Abbott
1976-1977	R. F. Myers
1977-1978	J. H. Crust
1978-1979	F. Khan
1979-1980	A. T. Laxdal
1980-1981	J. Dyck
1981-1982	F. Pearson
1982-1983	I. Kowalchuk
1983-1984	N. Heywood
1984-1985	D. Fewer
1985-1986	R. Cantin
1986-1987	J. B. Sutherland
1987-1988	John Douglas “Jack” Armstrong (1939-2006)
1988-1989	M. Thornington
1989-1990	L. C. Bartlett
1990-1991	W. T. Hoeppner
1991-1992	J. Ross
1992-1993	S. Cleghorn
1993-1994	I. Goldstine
1994-1995	N. Donen
1995-1996	J. Patel
1996-1997	G. L. E. Ullyot
1997-1998	I. White
1998-1999	J. G. Skelly

Sources:

“Medicos in convention,” Manitoba Free Press, 22 May 1890, page 8.

Manitoba Medicine: A Brief History by Ian Carr and Robert E. Beamish, University of Manitoba Press, 1999.

Doctors Manitoba

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 28 December 2021