Educator, postmaster, plumber, municipal official.
Born in Homerton, Hackney, London, England on 14 January 1878, son of John Basham (1837-1915) and Ruth Sarah Goodson (1848-1925), he trained as a teacher and plumber before immigrating to Canada in 1903. His teaching career in rural Manitoba included work at Mowat School (1904-1905), Moose Bay School (1909), Janowski School (1911), York Factory School (1928-1929), Barrie School (1929-1931), Middlebro School (1941), Craig Siding School (1941-1942), Dallas School (c1945), Norquay School (c1949), Hodgson School (c1953), and Weiden School (?-?). Interspersed between tenure in the classroom was employment as a plumber in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan (?-?) and for the Cotter Brothers in Winnipeg (c1907), Postmaster of Oak Brae / Weiden (1913-1923), after which he was elected Reeve of Mossey River (1924). He served five years as a trustee of Mowat School District and unsuccessfully ran again for Reeve in 1936, coming second in the vote. He died unmarried at the Fork River residence of his nephew, James H. Johnston, on 28 November 1954 and was buried in the Riverside Cemetery.
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This page was prepared by Nathan Kramer.
Page revised: 26 July 2020
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