Psychiatrist.
Born at Winnipeg in 1909, one of six children of Russian immigrants Simon Matas (1881-1971) and Anna Posler (?-1954), brother of Roy Joseph Matas, after attending medical school at the University of Manitoba, he served as a psychiatrist during the Second World War, stationed in India and Burma, and was mentioned in dispatches for gallantry. During the war, he met Renee Horowitz in England and married her. After the war, he developed a psychiatric unit at the St. Boniface Hospital, the first psychiatric unit in a general hospital in the city. He died on 30 January 2005 and was buried in the Shaarey Zedek Cemetery. He is commemorated by an auditorium in the psychiatry building at St. Boniface Hospital.
Obituary [Simon Matas], Winnipeg Free Press, 27 October 1971, page 41.
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 2 February 2005.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 5 April 2022
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