Manitoba Organization: Manitoba Pharmaceutical Association / College of Pharmacists of Manitoba

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Incorporated in 1878, between 2011 and 2012, it was renamed the College of Pharmacists of Manitoba.

Presidents (1878-2010)

Period	President
1878-1880	John Fraser Caldwell (1852-1949)
1880-1884	William Whitehead [Winnipeg]
1884-1888	William James Mitchell (1843-1907)
1888-1890	Byron M. Canniff (c1847-1944) [Portage la Prairie]
1890-1892	Gordon W. McLaren (1858-?) [Morden]
1892-1896	John F. Howard (1860-1926)
1896-1903	Charles Flexon (1850-1905)
1903-1904	Alexander Robert Leonard (1869-1942)
1904-1906	Edward Daniel Martin (1856-1938)
1906-1908	Alexander Campbell (c1851-1943) [Winnipeg]
1908-1910	William Young (1870-1942) [Neepawa]
1910-1914	Evelyn Nesbitt (1883-?) [Winnipeg]
1914-1916	Mark Westaway (1868-1942)
1916-1918	A. J. Brown [Winnipeg]
1918-1922	Harry D. Campbell [Winnipeg]
1922-1924	David E. Clement (1874-1938)
1924-1925	Robert Thompson Butchart (1866-1930)
1925-1926	Evelyn Nesbitt (1883-?) [Winnipeg]
1926-1928	Claude Neucriman Rowe Still (1889-1970) [Neepawa]
1928-1930	Arthur Isaac Brooking (1878-1942) [Winnipeg]
1930-1934	Harry D. Campbell [Winnipeg]
1934-1936	Frederick Hugh Gibbs (1890-1969) [Selkirk]
1936-1938	Bernard Ross McNaught (1875-1948)
1938-1940	George Kelly Hill (1904-1980) [Portage la Prairie]
1940-1942	William A. McKnight (c1893-1975) [Winnipeg]
1942-1944	Frederick Hugh Gibbs (1890-1969) [Selkirk]
1944-1946	Alexander M. Brown [Brandon]
1946-1948	Horace Foss Giffin (1901-1994) [Manitou]
1948-1950	Charles Gerald Chapman (1915-1994)
1950-1951	Herbert William “Scotty” Muir (1897-1988) [Winnipeg]
1951-1954	Reginald Lewis “Reg” Harman (1897-1964)
1954-1956	Joseph Harold Karr (c1909-1989)
1956-1958	George Whyte (?-1980)
1958-1960	Charles Thomas Oliver (?-1999)
1960-1962	John Frank Holland (?-1970)
1962-1964	John William Bruce “Jack” Richardson (?-1990)
1964-1966	John Currie McMillan (?-1986)
1966-1968	Colin Barlow (?-2001)
1968-1970	John Currie McMillan (?-1986)
1970-1972	Beverly Alfred Lloyd (1924-2003)
1972-1974	William J. C. Blackwood (?-1994)
1974-1976	John H. Clubb (?-1986)
1976-1978	Bryan E. Shaw
1978-1980	Raymond Clare Biglow (1931-2019)
1980-1982	Stewart Graham Wilcox (1934-2009)
1982-1984	Alistaire M. Pringle
1984-1986	Nicolaas H. H. Otten
1986-1988	Orville A. Wagner
1988-1990	Darryl E. Darling
1990-1992	Duane J. Nieman
1992-1994	P. Albert Eros
1994-1996	Remigius Weiss
1996-1998	Charles E. McClure
1998-2000	J. Dexter Boyd
2000-2002	Ron Eros
2002-2004	Lois Cantin (1951-2019)
2004-2006	Gary Cavanagh
2006-2008	Pat Trozzo
2008-2010	Randall Stephanchew

Registrars (1878-2015)

Period	Registrar
1878-1882	James Stewart (1826-1911)
1882-1886	Duncan Lloyd McIntyre (1853-1928)
1886-1893	John F. Howard (1860-1926)
1893-1895	J. K. Strachan
1895-1945	Walter Daniel Macdougall (1870-1945)
1945-1948	Charles Gerald Chapman (1915-1994) - Acting
1948-1968	Mathew Arnold “Andy” Anderson (?-1971)
1968-1983	Arthur Langley Jones (?-1996)
1983-1999	Stewart Graham Wilcox (1934-2009)
1999-2015	Ronald F. Guse

See also:

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Manitoba College of Pharmacy Building (422 Notre Dame Avenue, Winnipeg)

Sources:

“Banquet to W. J. Mitchell,” Winnipeg Tribune, 19 June 1890, page 4.

“Pharmaceutical Association,” Winnipeg Tribune, 7 April 1894, page 2.

The History of Pharmacy in Manitoba by Manitoba Pharmaceutical Association Historical Committee, 1954.

Obituary [Joseph Harold Karr], Winnipeg Free Press, 2 May 1989, page 37.

History of the Faculty of Pharmacy, The University of Manitoba, 1899-1999 by John Wiseman Steele, 1999.

Obituary [Raymond Clare Biglow], Winnipeg Free Press, 14 December 2019.

We thank Willa Adelman for providing additional information used here.

Page revised: 1 July 2021