Physician, administrator.
Born at Deloraine on 6 January 1901, son of Arthur Henry Atkinson and Rose Harvey, in 1928 he graduated with a medical degree from the University of Manitoba. He was Superintendent of the Manitoba School for Mental Defectives at Portage la Prairie from its inception in 1930 to his death. He was given a Manitoba Golden Boy Award in 1961.
He died at the St. Boniface Hospital on 18 October 1965 as a result of injuries suffered in an automobile accident north of Portage la Prairie. He was buried in the Chapel Lawn Memorial Gardens.
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Home for Incurables / Home for the Aged and Infirm / Manitoba School for Mental Defectives / Manitoba School for Retardates / Manitoba Development Centre (3rd Street NE, Portage la Prairie)
“A Very Serious Matter”: The Manitoba Government’s Institution for People with Intellectual Disability by Mary Horodyski
Prairie History, Number 1, Winter 2020
Birth registration, Manitoba Vital Statistics.
“Eleven Manitobans and radio-TV station to be honored,” Winnipeg Free Press, 17 June 1961.
“Father of a special family” by Lillian Gibbons, Winnipeg Tribune, 1 May 1964.
“Atkinson dies of injuries,” Winnipeg Free Press, 19 October 1965, page 12.
Obituary, Winnipeg Tribune, 19 October 1965, page 22.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 31 July 2023
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