Manitoba Organization: Manitoba Medical Association / Doctors Manitoba

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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 John Harrison O’Donnell, Second Vice-President James Wilford Good, and Secretary-Treasurer James Robert Jones. In 2008, the organization changed its name to Doctors Manitoba.

Presidents

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

Edmund James Boardman (1879-1935)

1929-1930

Charles A. MacKenzie (1870-1953)

1930-1931

Henry Oliver McDiarmid (1882-1952)

1931-1932

Rosslyn Brough “Ross” Mitchell (1880-1972)

1932-1933

Adam Fisher Menzies (1887-1958)

1933-1934

J. C. McMillan

1934-1935

G. W. Rogers

1935-1936

Frederick Gallagher McGuinness (1891-1968)

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

Otto Arnold Schmidt (1918-2005)

1970-1971

Robert Earl Beamish (1916-2001)

1971-1972

Lawrence John “Lawrie” Stephen (1928-2005)

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: 16 December 2023