Memorable Manitobans: Edward Henry Garrison (1862-1928)

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Edward Henry Garrison
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Editor, publisher.

Born in Lennox Country, Ontario on 11 May 1862, he was educated at Napanee High School, later learning the printing trade in the office of the Napanee Express and Beaver. He worked for eight years at the Chatham Planet and Banner, moving in 1890 to Brandon to take charge of the mechanical department of the Brandon Daily Sun where he stayed until 1892.

He was at Calgary, Alberta from 1893 to 1895, returning in the latter year to Brandon and resuming employment with the Brandon Sun. In 1896, he moved to Virden as Publisher of the Virden Advance, in partnership with D. J. Benham. They sold the business to William James Kennedy in 1899 but he remained on as Editor and Manager. He later moved to Edmonton, Alberta.

He died at Vancouver, British Columbia on 31 July 1928 and was buried in the Mountain View Cemetery.

Sources:

1901 and 1911 Canada censes, Automated Genealogy.

“The editors of the provincial liberal press,” Manitoba Free Press, 13 December 1901, page 10.

Death registration [Edward Henry Garrison], British Columbia Vital Statistics.

Edward Henry Garrison, FindAGrave.

We thank Darryl Toews for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 22 March 2024

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