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Anne Matheson Gordon Henderson
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Historian.
Born at Winnipeg on 11 December 1896, youngest of three children of Angus Matheson Henderson (1861-1948) and Mary Irvine McRae (1862-1941), she was a descendant of the first Henderson who “wintered at the Forks” in 1807-1808 and, after several years with the Hudson’s Bay Company in northern districts, married into one of the original Lord Selkirk Settlement families and settled at Red River. Her mother’s people, West Highland and Border folk, came to Eastern Canada in the same period and, in 1874, came to Fort Garry by lake and rail and river boat from Moorhead, Minnesota.
Her interest in local history grew out of family stories. In her spare time, she gardened. Long a member of the Council of the Manitoba Historical Society, a President (1955-1957), and chair of its genealogical section, she was a true amateur in the dictionary sense. She also served as President of the Lord Selkirk Association of Ruperts Land. In 1970, she was given a Manitoba Centennial Medal by the Manitoba Historical Society.
She died unmarried at Winnipeg on 2 April 1985 and was buried in the St. James Cemetery.
Her articles for the Manitoba Historical Society:
The Lord Selkirk Association of Rupert’s Land
Manitoba Pageant, Volume 7, Number 3, April 1962From Fort Douglas to the Forks
MHS Transactions, Series 3, Number 23, 1966-67 SeasonThe Lord Selkirk Settlement at Red River, Part 1
Manitoba Pageant, Volume 13, Number 1, Autumn 1967The Lord Selkirk Settlement at Red River, Part 2
Manitoba Pageant, Volume 13, Number 2, Winter 1968The Lord Selkirk Settlement at Red River, Part 3
Manitoba Pageant, Volume 13, Number 3, Spring 1968Tecumseh School District No. 34, 1877-1977
Manitoba Pageant, Volume 23, Number 4, Summer 1978
Birth registration [Annie Gordon Henderson], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
1901 Canada census, Automated Genealogy.
Death registrations [Mary Irving Henderson, Angus Matheson Henderson], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Obituary [Mary Irvine Henderson], Winnipeg Tribune, 3 March 1941, page 10.
Obituary [Angus Matheson Henderson], Winnipeg Tribune, 14 July 1948, page 25.
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 3 April 1985, page 40.
Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.
We thank Phyllis Fraser, Bill Mackay, and George Stewart for providing birth and death dates.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 2 October 2024
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