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Laurence Edward Brownell
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Journalist.
Born at Truro, Nova Scotia on 22 March 1891, son of Florence and Robert Brownell, he worked as a reporter for the Winnipeg Free Press before becoming Editor-in-Chief of the National Home Monthly magazine, a position he held for 18 years. He was at one time President of the Winnipeg branch of the Canadian Authors Association, Winnipeg Press Club, and Canukeena Club (1938-1939). He served with the Canadian Expeditionary Force during the First World War.
On 17 September 1919, he married Alison Rachel Merry (1895-1971) at Winnipeg and they had two sons: Edward Gray “Ted” Brownell and Donald R. “Don” Brownell (1926-2015). The family resided at 103 Lenore Street.
He died at the Winnipeg General Hospital on 20 December 1949 and was buried in the Old Kildonan Cemetery.
Marriage registration [Laurence Edward Brownell, Alison Rachel Merry], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Birth registration [Edward Gray Brownell], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
1901 Canada census, Automated Genealogy.
“Magazine editor 18 years, Laurence E. Brownell dies,” Winnipeg Free Press, 30 December 1949. [Manitoba Legislative Library, Biographical Scrapbook B10, page 128]
Obituary [Alison M. Brownell], Winnipeg Free Press, 23 September 1971, page 41.
Obituary [Edward Gray Brownell], Winnipeg Free Press, 21 September 2004.
Obituary [Donald R. Brownell], Winnipeg Free Press, 16 May 2015, page 28.
Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.
This page was prepared by Sarah Ramsden and Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 25 November 2023
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