Physician.
Born at Listowel, Ontario on 10 June 1867, son of James B. Cartmell (1837-1915) and Eleanor Winter (1843-1923), he moved to Birtle with his parents in 1880 and graduated from the Manitoba Medical College in 1891. After teaching at Wellington School (1896-1897), he settled at Glenboro where he worked as a physician for 57 years, initially in partnership with Dr. W. J. Gunn. Interested in local politics and public affairs, he served as Reeve of the Rural Municipality of South Cypress (1922-1929) and medical health officer for 41 years. On 5 October 1892, he married Maggie May Wilcox (?-?) and they shared two children: Eleanor Monica Cartmell (?-?, wife of Richard George Espie) and Elwin C. Cartmell (?-?). He died at Glenboro on 25 August 1948 and was buried in the Glenboro Cemetery.
The Story of Manitoba by F. H. Schofield, Winnipeg: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1913.
Marriage registration [James Winter Cartmell, Maggie May Wilcox], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Marriage registration [Eleanor Monica Cartmell, Richard George Espie], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
“Dr. J. W. Cartmell, Glenboro resident 57 years, dies,” Winnipeg Tribune. [Manitoba Legislative Library, Biographical Scrapbook B10, page 36]
Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.
We thank Nathan Kramer and Gordon Goldsborough for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Sarah Ramsden.
Page revised: 4 January 2024
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