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Dawson Kerr Elliott
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Dawson Kerr Elliott
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Born at Pakenham, Ontario on 10 July 1853, the second of eleven children born to John Elliott and Margaret Kerr, brother of George Andrew Elliott, he was educated at the Pakenham High School. He opened a dry goods business at Arnprior, Ontario in 1871 then moved to Winnipeg in 1879.
He was taken into business partnership by Robert Jones Whitla in 1881. He became President of R. J. Whitla and Company after Whitla’s death in 1905. He was also President of the Western King Garment Company, director of the Royal Bank of Canada and Northern Trusts Company, and President of the Winnipeg Board of Trade (1900).
On 12 June 1878, he married Mary Alice McCreary (1857-1945, sister of William Forsythe McCreary) of Arnprior, Ontario. They had eight children: Mabel Louise Elliott (1879-1971, wife of Francis McMurray), James Harold Elliott (1880-1932), Edna Margaret Elliott (1882-1973, wife of James Bowes Coyne), Dawson Whitla Elliott (1884-1974), Elizabeth M. Elliott (1888-?, wife of A. G. Pearson), Mary Gertrude Elliott (1890-1941, wife of Ralph James McGuckin), Raymond Kerr Elliott, and John McCreary Elliott (1897-1917).
He was a member of the Manitoba Club, St. Charles Country Club, and Methodist church. His recreations included yachting and golf. In 1911, he lived at 35 Kennedy Street, in a home designed by architect George Browne.
He died at Winnipeg on 27 September 1946 and was buried in the St. John’s Cathedral Cemetery.
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Elliott House (16 Ruskin Row, Winnipeg)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Western King Garment Building (558-560 McDermot Avenue, Winnipeg)
Birth registration [Mary McCreary Elliott], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
1901 Canada census, Automated Genealogy.
Marriage registration [Mabel Louise Elliott, Francis McMurray], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
The Canadian Album: Men of Canada or Success by Example, Vol. III, Bradley, Garretson & Company, Brantford, Ontario, 1894.
Who’s Who in Western Canada: A Biographical Dictionary of Notable Living Men and Women of Western Canada, Volume 1, edited by C. W. Parker, Vancouver: Canadian Press Association, 1911.
The Story of Manitoba by F. H. Schofield, Winnipeg: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1913.
The Leading Financial, Business & Professional Men of Winnipeg, published by Edwin McCormick, Photographs by T. J. Leatherdale, Compiled and printed by Stone Limited, c1913. [copy available at the Archives of Manitoba]
Marriage registration [Mary Gertrude Elliott, Ralph James McGuckin], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
“Celebrate golden wedding today,” Manitoba Free Press, 12 June 1928.
Death registrations [James Harold Elliott, Mary Gertrude McGuckin], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
“Monoxide gas causes death of J. H. Elliott,” Winnipeg Tribune, 30 November 1932, page 3.
“D. K. Elliott, pioneer is dead,” Winnipeg Free Press, 28 September 1946. [Manitoba Legislative Library, Biographical Scrapbook B9]
Obituary [Mabel Louise McMurray], Winnipeg Free Press, 7 September 1971, page 29.
Obituary [Edna M. Coyne], Winnipeg Free Press, 18 January 1973, page 33.
Death registration [Dawson Whitla Elliott], British Columbia Vital Statistics.
Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 8 January 2025
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