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Memorable Manitobans: Charles James Jamieson (1854-1940)Physician, curler. Born at Ottawa, Ontario on 9 January 1854, he graduated from McGill University in 1879. He had been practicing for three years in an Ontario lumber camp when he visited a brother living in Winnipeg. He decided to stay and set up a medical practice, opening his first office on Pacific Avenue. At the time, there were 15 physicians in the city, for a population of 15,000 people. He and wife Mary Isabella Stuart Edwards (1858-1940) had four children: Frederick Lawrence “Fred” Jamieson (1887-?), Charles Norman Jamieson, William Francis “Frank” Jamieson (1892-1918), and Isabel Ann Jamieson (1895-1986, wife of Arthur William Sellers, mother of Frederick William Sellers). A keen curler, he was one of the first members of the Thistle Curling Club (President, 1901-1903) and served as President of the Manitoba Curling Association (1903-1904). He was one of the early members of First Baptist Church. He died at his Winnipeg home, 774 Wellington Crescent, on 27 June 1940. Sources:Birth, marriage, and death registrations, Manitoba Vital Statistics. “Dr. Jamieson dies Thursday at age of 86,” Winnipeg Free Press, 28 June 1940. [Manitoba Legislative Library, Biographical Scrapbook B9, page 94] “C. J. Jamieson, veteran doctor, curler, is dead,” Winnipeg Tribune, 28 June 1940, page 11. “Death climaxes careers of many notable people in course of 1940,” Winnipeg Free Press, 1 January 1941, page 1. We thank Terry Webber and Rick Mutton for providing additional information used here. This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough. Page revised: 26 April 2022
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