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The Winnipeg Foundation was established in June 1921, the first community foundation in Canada, with an initial donation of $100,000 from William Forbes Alloway. He saw the creation of the Foundation as a way to give back to his community. On his death in 1930, his entire estate was left to the Foundation along with that of his wife, Elizabeth Maclaren Alloway, providing a total endowment of some $2 million. It has since grown to be one of the largest community foundations in North America.
On 20 April 2021, an MHS Centennial Organization Award was presented to the Foundation by Gordon Goldsborough and Dan Furlan.
First Advisory Board and Staff of the Winnipeg Foundation, 1921.
Left to right: R. B. McElheran, E. Parnell, C. P. Wilson (Solicitor), T. G. Mathers, R. M. Dennistoun, H. J. Macdonald, and P. Lowe (Secretary).
Source: Archives of Manitoba, Dennistoun Diaries.
Member
Period
Comment
Richard Archer
2005-2008
David Barnard
2022-?
George Bass
2017-?
Hazel Borys
2019-?
Brian Bowman
2015-?
Ex officio (Mayor of Winnipeg)
Richard R. Bracken
2007-2016
Board Chair (2010-2012)
Doneta A. Porteous Brotchie
2009-2021
Board Chair (?-2021)
Tom Bryk
2012-?
Board Chair (2022-?)
Archibald McTavish Campbell (1852-1942)
1927-1942
Tina Chen
2021-?
Phil Chiappetta
2021-?
Robert M. Chipman
1982-1986
President, Megill-Stephenson Company Limited
David Cohen
2007-2018
Catherine L. Cook MD
2005-2016
Roderick Alexander Copland (1909-1959)
1951-1959
President, Oldfield, Kirby and Gardner
Garnet Coulter (1882-1975)
1943-1954
Ex officio (Mayor of Winnipeg)
Robert Maxwell Dennistoun (1864-1952)
1921-1928
Founding Director
Robert George Brian Dickson (1916-1998)
1967-1973
Carolyn Duhamel
2009-2020
Spencer Duncanson
2009-2020
Paul Guyot DuVal (1893-1970)
1955-1966
Albert El Tassi
2012-?
Seymour James Farmer (1878-1951)
1923-1924
Ex officio (Mayor of Winnipeg)
Colin Campbell Ferguson (1878-1938)
1929-1938
Frank Oliver Fowler (1861-1945)
1922-1923
Ex officio (Mayor of Winnipeg)
Daniel Freidman
2017-?
William Hicks Gardner (1875-1951)
1942-1951
Robert Grant Graham (1931-2000)
1977-1984
President, Inter-City Gas Limited
Tracy Graham
2012-?
Deborah Gray
2012-2016
Gordon Clarke Hall (1921-1990)
1973-1990
Marsha Pearlman Hanen (1936-2019)
1993-1998
President, University of Winnipeg
Gregg Hanson
1999-2012
Board Chair (2006-2009)
Helen Frances Hayles (1929-2021)
1980-2001
Executive Director, Volunteer Centre of Winnipeg; Board Chair (1997-2000)
James Arthur Hillman (1919-2007)
1976-1993
Vice-President and Controller, Great-West Life Assurance Company
Alan Grant Howison (1932-2005)
1975-1976
Resident Manager, Richardson Securities of Canada
Dr. June James
1997-2008
Stephen “Steve” Juba (1914-1993)
1957-1977
Ex officio (Mayor of Winnipeg)
Samuel Michael “Sam” Katz
2004-2014
Ex officio (Mayor of Winnipeg)
David S. Kaufman (1927-2010)
1977-1992
President, Silpit Industries Limited
Charles Kroft (1906-1984)
1969-1977
Chairman of the Board, National Grain Company Limited
Guy Joseph Kroft (1934-2020)
1992-2006
Gerry Labossiere
2012-2020
Gordon Lawson (1904-1995)
1962-1974
Vice-President (Finance), James Richardson & Sons Limited
Augustus Searle Leach (1909-1993)
1959-1974
Chairman of the Board, Federal Grain Limited
Joy Loewen
2019-?
Daniel “Dan” Lussier
2021-?
William Elliott Macara (1859-1929)
1922-1929
Daniel Alexander Macdonald (1858-1937)
1927-1937
Hugh John Macdonald (1850-1929)
1921-1922
Founding Director
Romulo Fernandez Magsino (1941-2022)
2005-2008
Patricia Mainville
2017-?
Thomas Graham Mathers (1859-1927)
1921-1927
Founding Director
Deborah J. McCawley
2007-2018
Board Chair (2016-2018)
Robert Benjamin McElheran (1877-1939)
1921-1926
Founding Director
Daniel McLean (1868-1950)
1928-1930
Ex officio (Mayor of Winnipeg)
Ewan Alexander McPherson (1879-1954)
1937-1954
Susan Millican
2006-2017
Board Chair (2013-2015)
Glen Murray
1998-2004
Ex officio (Mayor of Winnipeg)
William “Bill” Norrie (1929-2012)
1979-2006
Ex officio (Mayor of Winnipeg)
Hugh Farquharson Osler (1881-1943)
1929-1943
Edward Parnell (1859-1922)
1921-1922
Founding Director
1984-1996
Executive Vice-President, Parrish & Heimbecker Limited; Board Chair (1993-1996)
John Pollard
2019-?
Lawrence Oliver “Lawrie” Pollard (1928-2019)
1992-2006
Maureen Prendiville
2012-?
Robert G. Puchniak
2012-2018
Robert P. Purves (1927-1997)
1974-1991
President, Inter-Ocean Grain Company Limited
John Queen (1882-1946)
1935-1936,
1938-1942Ex officio (Mayor of Winnipeg)
Gerald F. Reimer
1986-2006
Kathleen Margaret Richardson (1928-2019)
1970-1982
Muriel Sprague Richardson (1890-1973)
1944-1962
Diane Roussin
2018-?
Lesley Sacouman
2001-2016
Richard Jamieson “Dick” Scott (1938-2024)
1990-2005
Board Chair (2001-2005)
George Edward Sharpe (1908-1985)
1955-1956
Ex officio (Mayor of Winnipeg)
Anita Southall
2017-?
Anna Meldred Speers (1908-1996)
1962-1970
President, R. James Speers Corporation Limited
Robert Ashley Steen (1933-1979)
1977-1979
Ex officio (Mayor of Winnipeg)
Eric Stefanson
2006-2011
Alan Edmund Tarr (1913-1995)
1950-1977
Vice-President and Treasurer, Monarch Life Assurance Company
Edgar Jordan Tarr (1881-1950)
1938-1942
Susan Ann Thompson
1989-1998
Ex officio (Mayor of Winnipeg)
Frederick Edgar Warriner (1884-1966)
1937
Ex officio (Mayor of Winnipeg)
Ralph Humphreys Webb (1886-1945)
1925-1927,
1930-1934Ex officio (Mayor of Winnipeg)
Sonya C. Wright
1982-1989
Period
Executive Director / Chief Executive Officer
1921-1957
Peter Lowe (1887-1980) [Secretary]
1957-1976
Hugh Avery Benham (1911-1997)
1976-1989
Alan Grant Howison (1932-2005)
1989-1999
Daniel H. Kraayeveld
1999-2021
Richard “Rick” Frost
2021-?
Sky Bridges
Period
Solicitor
?-?
Charles Patrick Wilson (1859-1931)
?-?
William Cleland Hamilton (1881-1943)
See also:
All Western Dollars by Peter Lowe
MHS Transactions, Series 3, Season 1945-46A Remedy for Wooden Legs and Dead Hands: The Early Years of the Winnipeg Foundation by Gordon Goldsborough
Manitoba History, Number 66, Spring 2011All Within My Power: The Life of William Forbes Alloway by Tim Higgins
Manitoba History, Number 67, Winter 2012Historic Sites of Manitoba: Harvey House (112 West Gate, Winnipeg)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Alloway and Champion Arch (Waterfront Drive, Winnipeg)
Photograph of the first Advisory Board of the Winnipeg Foundation, Diaries of R. M. Dennistoun, Archives of Manitoba.
“Alloway wills all to local charities,” Manitoba Free Press, 27 February 1930, page 10.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 23 November 2024
