Memorable Manitobans: Jean Joseph Gonty (1902-1970)

Physician.

Born on a farm in the Belleview district on 18 April 1902, son of John Gonty (1867-1962) and Anne Cote (1878-1917), he practiced medicine at Elie in the early 1940s and was later the Medical Director of the Health Unit at Portage la Prairie. He died at the Misericordia Hospital on 6 September 1970 and was buried in the Virden Cemetery.

See also:

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Elie General Store (2 Main Street East, Elie, RM of Cartier)

Sources:

1911 Canada census, Automated Genealogy.

Death registrations, Manitoba Vital Statistics.

Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 17 December 1970, page 46.

Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 17 September 2022

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