MHS Centennial Organization: Women’s Musical Club of Winnipeg

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The Women’s Musical Club of Winnipeg was begun in 1894 by six women “to keep up their interest in music…” The organization grew and prospered, and remains vibrant today, with a mandate to “encourage and advance music in the community by the presentation of outstanding artists.” In achieving this goal, the club has brought numerous prominent artists to Winnipeg to perform, many of them on the brink of a prominent career. Included among many of these have been Maureen Forrester and Glenn Gould. The club now presents five concerts each year, as well as an occasional special concert with an outstanding Canadian artist. The size, meeting venue, and musical activities have changed over the years to meet the needs of a changing community. The focus is now on young artists, many of them just starting on a career in the arts. To help in this process, the club offers five scholarships annually, whose recipients are featured in a December concert. For 111 years of musical excellence, the Manitoba Historical Society is pleased to present a Centennial Organization Award to the Women’s Musical Club of Winnipeg.

An MHS Centennial Organization Award was presented by Lieutenant-Governor John Harvard, Jacqueline Friesen, and Gordon Goldsborough on 3 April 2005.

Past-Presidents of the Women’s Musical Club of Winnipeg (no date)
L-R: Mrs. L. Heaton, Mrs. W. H. Collum, Mrs. C. S. Riley, Mrs. A. R. Tanner, Mrs. W. Luck.
Source: Archives of Manitoba

Presidents

Period	President
1894-1896	Mrs. Gerald F. Brophy (?-1924)
1897-1899	Mrs. Angus Kirkland
1899-1900	Mrs. L. A. Hamilton
1900-1901	Mrs. George Galt
1901-1903	Mrs. H. A. Higginson
1903-1906	Mrs. W. Sanford Evans
1906-1907	Miss Kate Drummond
1907-1908	Mrs. Robert Bryce
1908-1909	Mrs. W. S. Grant
1909-1910	Mrs. A. B. Clark
1910-1911	Mrs. H. A. Higginson
1911-1913	Mrs. C. M. Weiss
1913-1918	Mrs. H. A. Higginson
1918-1920	Mrs. Robert Fletcher
1920-1923	Mrs. C. E. Dafoe
1923-1926	Mrs. J. Y. Reid
1926-1927	Mrs. J. B. Coyne
1927-1928	Jean Isabel Culver Riley (1883-1965, wife of Conrad Stephenson Riley)
1928-1929	Mrs. J. Y. Reid
1929-1930	Mrs. J. H. Elliott
1930-1933	Gertrude Rowe Hanson Kilvert (1880-1961)
1933-1936	Jean Isabel Culver Riley (1883-1965, wife of Conrad Stephenson Riley)
1936-1939	Mrs. W. H. Collum
1939-1942	Nell Irene Rundle Heaton (?-1967, wife of Leonard D. Heaton)
1942-1945	Annie Maude Crowe Collum (1887-1976, wife of W. H. Collum)
1945-1948	Mrs. Harold D. Barbour
1948-1951	Mrs. Douglas G. Edmond
1951-1954	Mrs. G. Lyman Van Vliet
1955-1958	Mrs. Walter Luck
1958-1961	Mrs. A. R. Tanner
1961-1962	Mrs. Margaret H. Bach
1962-1965	Margaret Adele Bain Fetherstonhaugh (1904-1975)
1965-1966	Mrs. H. Lloyd Thompson
1966-1969	Margaret Adele Bain Fetherstonhaugh (1904-1975)
1970-1971	Mrs. A. S. Majury
1971-1974	Mrs. George T. Richardson
1974-1976	Mrs. W. C. Guest
1976-1978	Mrs. J. W. G. Armytage
1978-1980	Mrs. Rosalind Dick
1980-1982	Mrs. Puddy Cunningham
1982-1984	Mrs. Lynn Nieman
1984-1986	Mrs. Peggy Roulston
1986-1988	Mrs. Nancy Mitchell
1988-1990	Mrs. Gloria Meadows
1990-1992	Mrs. Ruth Bredin
1992-1994	Mrs. Kathryn Young
1994-1996	Mrs. Virginia Heinrichs
1996-1998	Mrs. Jean Smellie
1998-2000	Mrs. Margaret Morse
2000-2002	Mrs. Wilma Woodmass
2002-2004	Mrs. Marjorie Lebrun
2004-2005	Mrs. Gloria Meadows
2005-2008	Mrs. Marjorie Lebrun
2008-2009	Mrs. Virginia Heinrichs
2009-2010	Mrs. Margaret Jeffries
2010-2012	Mrs. Carol Gamby
2012-2013	Mrs. Margaret Kellermann McCulloch
2013	Mrs. Carol Gamby
2013-2015	Mrs. Kathryn Young

See also:

“With Every Note Played”: A History of the Women’s Musical Club of Winnipeg, 1894-2014
by Kathryn A. Young, Winnipeg, 2014

Sources:

Obituary [Annie Maude Collum], Winnipeg Free Press, 14 October 1976, page 55.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 17 November 2020