Educator.
Born in Ontario on 11 November 1857, he taught at several rural schools across the province, including Perry School (1886), Parkhill School (1887), Roseau School (1888, 1892-1894), Stuartburn School (1900), Newbridge School (1901-1906), Ridgeville School (1911-1912), Riverton School (1921), Bluff Island School (1922-1923), High Plains School (1929-1930), Cameron School (?), Mary Hill School (?), and Cardale School (?). He was Principal of Swan Lake School (1912-1916), Emerson School (1917), and Sanford School (1920).
On 24 March 1917, he married English immigrant Margaret Annie Gertrude Whincup (c1898-1980) in the Rural Municipality of Thompson and they had three children: George Edward Burrell (1919-1985), Margaret Sarah Burrell (1921-?), and Charles J. Burrell (1928-2005). He died at Dominion City on 3 May 1941 and was buried in the Green Ridge Cemetery.
1901 and 1911 Canada censuses, Automated Genealogy.
Annual Reports of the Manitoba Department of Education, Manitoba Legislative Library.
Marriage and death registrations, Manitoba Vital Statistics.
1921 Canada census, Ancestry.
Obituary [Gertrude Stachowicz], Winnipeg Free Press, 9 December 1980, page 54.
Death registration [George Edward Burrell], British Columbia Vital Statistics.
Obituary [Charles J. Burrell], Winnipeg Free Press, 13 August 2005.
Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.
This page was prepared by Nathan Kramer and Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 19 July 2024
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