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Memorable Manitobans: George Fisher (1862-1922)
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George Fisher
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Grain merchant, municipal official.
Born at Lanark, Scotland in 1862, he came to Winnipeg in August 1906 to become the Western Canadian Manager of the Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society. He served two terms on the Winnipeg city council (1917-1920) and was President of the Winnipeg Grain Exchange, President of the Traders’ Building Association, President of the Assiniboine Club, Chairman of the Mothers’ Allowance Commission, Vice-Chairman of the Provincial Savings Bank, and an elder in St. Stephen’s Presbyterian Church. He and wife Christina Shields (1860-1948) had two sons, George William Fisher (1885-1941) and John Brackenridge Fisher. He died suddenly at his Winnipeg home, 121 Chestnut Street, on 13 February 1922 and was buried in the Old Kildonan Cemetery.
Sources:
1921 Canada census, Ancestry.
Death registrations, Manitoba Vital Statistics.
“George Fisher, ex-alderman, dies suddenly,” Winnipeg Tribune, 13 February 1922, page 6. [Manitoba Legislative Library, Biographical Scrapbook B7]
“Ex-alderman is borne to grave,” Winnipeg Tribune, 15 February 1922, page 6.
Obituary [George W. Fisher], Winnipeg Tribune, 13 August 1941, page 18.
“John B. Fisher, Scottish co-op manager, dies,” Winnipeg Free Press, 15 January 1946. [Manitoba Legislative Library, Biographical Scrapbook B9]
“Mrs. George Fisher,” Winnipeg Tribune, 23 August 1948, page 23.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 8 February 2022
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