Miller.
Born in Ontario in January 1865, he came to Oak Lake where he established the Leitch Flour Mills in 1886. He was also the proprietor of Leitch Collieries (founded 1907) in the Crowsnest Pass in Alberta, and other enterprises. In 1899, he was a founding member of the Oak Lake Board of Trade.
On 22 March 1899, he married Edith Lidella Shaw (1879-1967) at Oak Lake. They had five children: Maurice O’Grady Leitch (1900-1973), William Malcolm Jamison Leitch (1908-?), Agnes Elizabeth Leitch (1909-1979), Marjory Edith Leitch (1910-?, wife of ? Doig), and Edith Kathleen Leitch (1913-?, wife of ? Roberts).
He later moved to Vancouver, British Columbia where he died on 3 October 1928 and was buried in the Oak Lake Cemetery.
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Leitch House (44 Fourth Avenue, Oak Lake, RM of Sifton)
Marriage registration [Malcolm McFarlane Leitch, Edythe Lidella Shaw], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Birth registration [Maurice O’Grady Leitch, William Malcolm Jamison Leitch, Agnes Elizabeth Leitch, Marjory Edith Leitch, Edith Kathleen Leitch], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
1901 and 1911 Canada censuses, Automated Genealogy.
Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.
Death registration [Malcolm Leitch], British Columbia Vital Statistics.
Ox Trail to Blacktop by Oak Lake History Committee, Oak Lake, 1982, page 267.
We thank John Everitt for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 30 December 2023
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