 |
Frederick William Briant Deer
|
Manager.
Born at Hungerford, England on 3 April 1880, second of six children of Thomas Henry Deer (1851-1923) and Alice Briant (1853-1931), as a young man he emigrated to South Africa. He later came to Canada, living first at Toronto, Ontario and later moving to Haileyburg, Ontario where he worked for eight years as a bookkeeper with the Imperial Oil Company. He later returned to Toronto in the employ of the Cataract Refining Company. In 1921 he came to Winnipeg as Secretary-Treasurer and General Sales Manager of the North Star Oil and Refining Company.
On 28 November 1904, he married Mary Ann Marwick (1880-1960) in Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa and they had two daughters: Kathleen Alice Deer (1906-?) and Margaret Reid Deer (1907-1970, wife of ? Robson). The family lived at 94 Tyndall Avenue, later in the Alhambra Apartments, and at 341 Maplewood Avenue at the time of his death. He was a member of the Winnipeg Board of Trade, Carleton Club, Manitoba Motor League, Masons, and Presbyterian church.
He died at the Winnipeg General Hospital on 3 March 1926 following a surgical procedure and was buried in the Mount Pleasant Cemetery at Toronto.
“F. W. Deer, oil firm’s sales manager, dead,” Manitoba Free Press, 4 March 1926, page 3. [Manitoba Legislative Library, Biographical Scrapbook B8]
Death registration, Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Frederick William Briant Deer, FindAGrave.
We thank Olive Lewenz and Glen Toews for providing information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 7 January 2025
Memorable Manitobans
This is a collection of noteworthy Manitobans from the past, compiled by the Manitoba Historical Society. We acknowledge that the collection contains both reputable and disreputable people. All are worth remembering as a lesson to future generations.
Search the collection by word or phrase, name, place, occupation or other text:
Custom SearchBrowse surnames beginning with:
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | Y | ZBrowse deaths occurring in:
1975 | 1976 | 1977 | 1978 | 1979 | 1980 | 1981 | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025
Send corrections and additions to this page
to the Memorable Manitobans Administrator at biographies@mhs.mb.caCriteria for Memorable Manitobans | Suggest a Memorable Manitoban | Firsts | Acknowledgements
Help us keep
history alive!
