Memorable Manitobans: Manitoba Agricultural Hall of Fame

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The Manitoba Agricultural Hall of Fame was established in 1976 to acknowledge persons who have made a significant contribution to the welfare and improvement of Manitoba agriculture and to a better way of life for farm families. Based in Brandon, it is governed by a board of twelve directors. Plaques honouring each inductee are located in the Keystone Centre in Brandon. As of 1986, those determined not to meet the full criteria for induction to the Hall are placed on a Roll of Honour.

Members (Individuals to 2025)

Name begins: A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

Member	Community	Year
Harry Thomas Milburn Airey	Rivers	2015
Evelyn Luella Moore Ames (1889-1973)	Winnipeg	2007
Cyril Leonard “Andy” Anderson (1904-1977)	Winnipeg	1986
Alfred Edwin Arnold (1898-2005)	Shoal Lake	1984
Allan Victor Arnott (1924-2011)	Darlingford	2009
Edythe Arnott	Darlingford	2009
Lloyd Atchison	Pipestone	2025
Helgi Halldor Austman (1922-2005)	Gimli	2008
B
Thomas Roy Bailey (1915-2011)	Carberry	2007
Clarence Baker	Beausejour	2015
Charles Paul Balmer (1930-2006)	Winnipeg	2004
John Genie Barron (1850-1926)	Carberry	1978
Percy Beachell (1874-1969)	Rosser	1986
Spencer Argyle Bedford (1851-1933)	Brandon	1978
James Reynolds Bell (1891-1979)	Winnipeg	1982
Frederick Valentine Bird (1885-1977)	Boissevain	1983
William John Black (1872-1941)	Winnipeg	1979
John Bracken (1883-1969)	Winnipeg	1980
Eileen O. Bryant Brake	Boissevain	2008
Paul Frederick Bredt (1883-1940)	Kemnay	1978
Mabel “Bell” Britton (1910-2008)	Killarney	2009
David Andrew Brown (1895-1990)	Brandon	1994
John Cameron “Cam” Brown (1929-2013)	Winnipeg	2010
Colin Hamlin Burnell (1880-1946)	Oakville	1978
C
Bruce Gilchrist Duncan Campbell (1936-2022)	Landmark	2004
Douglas Lloyd Campbell (1895-1995)	Portage la Prairie	1996
William Leslie “Bill” Campbell	Minto	2025
Albert Thomas “Ab” Chapman (1918-2013)	Rivers	2002
Wilfred John Chegwin (1927-2010)	Shoal Lake	2012
Adeline Zaborniak Chorney (1921-2016)	Selkirk	2010
Anthony R. “Anton” Chorney (1915-2000)	Selkirk	2010
Gordon Leonard Church (1913-1985)	Killarney	1999
Douglas Roy Clark	Brandon	1999
Ida Elva Cochrane (1908-?)	Hamiota	2002
Francis John Collyer (1865-1948)	Welwyn	1986
Edward James “Ed” Connery (1933-2019)	Portage la Prairie	2007
John Murray Cormack (1934-2023)	Winnipeg	2009
Almon James Cotton (1858-1942)	Swan River	1992
Thomas Alexander Crerar (1876-1974)	Russell	1986
Norman Criddle (1975-1933)	Aweme	1978
D
Allan Dawson	Winnipeg	2023
James Drysdale Deveson (1913-1993)	Arden	1995
Roslyn Morris Deveson	Winnipeg	2015
Robert Oliver “Bob” Douglas (1932-2012)	Winnipeg	2004
Hugh Frederic Drake (1944-2023)	Elkhorn	2024
James Duthie (1855-1932)	Hartney	1981
E
Martha Jane Elliott (1867-1956)	Cardale	1983
Joseph Henry Ellis (1890-1973)	Winnipeg	1980
Abram Ernest Ens	Winkler	2003
Ernest Henry “Ernie” Esau	Elm Creek	2019
Michael Eskin	Winnipeg	2023
F
Peter Fidler (1769-1822)	Selkirk Settlement	1994
Glen Marshall Findlay	Shoal Lake	2015
Don Flaten	Winnipeg	2024
Dougald Leslie “Doug” Fletcher (1906-1995)	Carman	2010
Reginald Elmer “Reg” Forbes (1924-2015)	Brandon	1994
Willo Sterritt Forrester (1901-1992)	Emerson	1987
George Edmund Franklin (1910-1990)	Deloraine	1992
William Wallace Fraser (1921-1992)	Hamiota	2008
Charles John Froebe	Carman	2013
Ernest Victor Fulton (1915-1987)	Birtle	2001
Marion Tye Fulton (1921-2013)	Birtle	1988
G
Clarence Eric “Clare” Geddes (1919-2015)	Pilot Mound	2002
Dorothy Jessie Alice McTaggart Geddes (1924-2011)	Pilot Mound	2002
James Clayton Gilson (1926-2000)	Winnipeg	2001
David Gislason (1941-2023)	Arborg	2009
Mary Margaret “Joyce” Gordon	Souris	2007
Robert Henry “Bob” Gordon	Souris	2007
Thomas Greenway (1838-1908)	Crystal City	1983
William Gregor	Brandon	2015
H
Arthur Thomas “Tom” Hainsworth (1901-1977)	Deloraine	1995
Arthur Edmund “Bert” Hall (1920-2014)	Manitou	1999
Wilfred Allan “Butch” Harder	Lowe Farm	2013
Thomas James Harrison (1885-1964)	Carman	1981
Lloyd Montgomery Hatch (1914-1989)	Oak Lake	1992
Reinhold Frederick “Ron” Helwer (1933-2025)	Libau	2014
Anna Kennedy Hicks (1896-1982)	Souris	1984
Ella Cora Hind (1861-1942)	Winnipeg	1978
F. Andrew Hodge (1922-1985)	Hamiota	1988
Heinrich Holtmann (1902-1994)	Rosser	2005
Edward Wallace Hood (1910-1998)	Carberry	2001
Robert William “Bob” Hopley (1933-2021)	Brandon	2015
Edward Phillip Hudek	Winnipeg	2012
I
J
Hugh Maurice Jameson	Brandon	2010
William Esmond Jarvis (1931-2004)	Winnipeg	2006
Susan Gertrude Robson Jasper (1902-2002)	Hartney	2000
Digvar Jayas	Winnipeg	2022
David Edward Jeffries	Portage la Prairie	2015
Norbert Jutras (1856-1929)	Letellier	1982
K
Waldie David Klassen	Steinbach	2014
Helen Kletke	Teulon	2013
Herbert Theodore Kletke (1934-2013)	Teulon	2013
Daryl Frank Kraft (1945-2003)	Winnipeg	2004
Abram Arthur Kroeker (1892-1981)	Winkler	1990
Walter Edwin Kroeker (1915-2000)	Winkler	2000
John W. Kuhl	Winkler	2013
L
Eugene Hausknecht Lange (1905-1989)	Winnipeg	2006
Herbert Melbourne Lapp (1922-2006)	Winnipeg	2012
Samuel Larcombe (1852-1937)	Birtle	1978
Archibald William “Archie” Londry	Minnedosa	2002
Walter Lynch (1835-1908)	Westbourne	1989
M
Joseph Andrew “Joe” MacDonald (1924-1991)	Winnipeg	2022
John Walter Grant MacEwan (1902-2000)	Brandon	1978
Selma Maendel	Portage la Prairie	2016
Henry Heard Marshall (1916-1994)	Morden	1995
William Sheppard May (1907-1978)	Strathclair	1987
Owen John McAuley	McAuley	2006
Allen McCoag McCallister (1879-1949)	Portage la Prairie	1991
Ernest Hugh McCausland (1902-1983)	Boissevain	2003
Nellie Letitia McClung (1873-1951)	Various	1982
George Newton McConnell (1894-1962)	McConnell	1985
Daniel William McCuaig (1855-1928)	Portage la Prairie	1980
James Clarke “Jim” McCutcheon (1935-2015)	Carman	2002
Glen Alexander McDowell	Miami	2003
James Duncan McGregor (1860-1935)	Brandon	1979
Wilfrid Forrest McGregor (1902-1968)	Brandon	1978
Vernon William McIntyre (1919-1994)	Elphinstone	2011
David McKeand (1893-1979)	Douglas	1982
Donald Gordon McKenzie (1887-1963)	Brandon	1998
Kenneth McKenzie (1822-1911)	Burnside	1989
Roderick Mckenzie (1850-1925)	Winnipeg	1999
Malcolm Solomon Joseph McMurachy (1878-1960)	Strathclair	1979
Robert Clarke McNabb	Minnedosa	2014
Vernon Ernest “Vern” McNair (1928-2020)	Winnipeg	2013
James Roy McPhail (1889-1971)	Brandon	1979
Gordon McPhee	Dauphin	2016
Donn Mitchell	Douglas	1997
Sylvia Mitchell	Douglas	1997
James Irving Moffatt (1919-1991)	Carroll & Brandon	1993
Everett More	Virden	2017
John Morriss	Winnipeg	2018
N
John Murray “Jack” Nesbitt (1925-1998)	Winnipeg	2000
John Roger Nesbitt (1873-1948)	Shoal Lake	1991
Margaret Newton (1887-1971)	Winnipeg	2008
Weldon Newton	Neepawa	2016
O
Clarence Harold Franklin Orchard (1878-1956)	Miami	1979
P
Peter Pakosh (1911-1999)	Winnipeg	2018
Frances Gwendoline Wilson “Gwen” Parker (1927-2024)	Ste. Agathe	2005
John Marsden “Jack” Parker	Winnipeg	2016
James Leckie Parker (1896-1995)	Gilbert Plains	1995
Lorne Edmund Parker (1927-1990)	Ste. Agathe	2002
William James Parker (1896-1971)	Sanford	1978
Henry Lewis Patmore (1861-1946)	Brandon	1978
Peter Jacob Peters (1914-2012)	Winnipeg	2009
Rudolph Frederick Peterson (1900-1975)	Winnipeg	1985
Alfred James Poole (1910-1988)	Kemnay	1992
Edith Alma Gauld Poole (1906-2000)	Kemnay	1992
Edward A. “Ted” Poyser (1927-2020)	Winnipeg	2005
Allan Preston	Winnipeg	2024
Q
R
Fawcett Wright Ransom (1882-1957)	Mountainside	1985
Sidney Edwin Ransom (1909-1990)	Boissevain	1991
Roy E. Robinson (c1919-1988)	Winnipeg	2019
Leslie Victor Robson (1893-1977)	Deleau	1981
Robert Gilmore Roehle	Winnipeg	2015
Alexander McInnes “Mac” Runciman (1914-2000)	Winnipeg	2003
S
Janet Marie Salway (1926-1995)	Neepawa	2004
Thomas Albert “Bert” Sandercock (1925-2019)	Selkirk	2009
John Sutherland Sanderson (1841-1930)	Portage la Prairie	1979
Alfred Savage (1889-1970)	Winnipeg	1983
Jacob “Jake” Schulz (1901-1983)	Grandview	2010
Alex Scott	Virden	2004
Florence Elizabeth “Bette” Scott	Virden	2004
Thomas James Scott (1920-2013)	Ninga	2006
William Alexander Scott	Virden	2004
Leonard Hylary Shebeski (1914-2010)	Winnipeg	2004
Herbert Rowland Shipley (1903-1977)	Russell	1978
Charles Lemington Shuttleworth (1910-2006)	Minnedosa	1998
Jacob John Siemens (1896-1963)	Altona	1979
Willie Jacob “Bill” Siemens	Kronsthal	2014
John Richard “Jack” Simplot (1909-2008)	Brandon	2003
Gordon Maxwell Sinclair (1931-1995)	Strathclair	2008
William Flowers Sirett (1879-1971)	Minnedosa	1986
Frank Leith Skinner (1882-1967)	Dropmore	1978
Douglas Allan Smith	Oak Lake	2003
Robert Keith Smith	Brandon	2011
Eric Stefanson (1913-1977)	Gimli	1978
Baldur Rosmund Stefansson (1917-2002)	Winnipeg	2003
Alexander P. “Sandy” Stevenson (1854-1922)	Morden	1980
Fraser A. Stewart	Selkirk	2008
Elmer Stobbe	Winnipeg	2022
Welland “Stoney” Stonehouse (1922-2007)	Carberry	2008
James Alexander “Alex” Stow (1928-2019)	Graysville	2009
Alfred John Strachan (1915-1978)	Carman	1986
William “Bill” Streich (1911-1977)	Clandeboye	2018
Frederick Hermann “Fred” Streich (1917-2006)	Clandeboye	2018
William Joseph “Bill” Strath	Souris	2007
T
Fred Tait	Rossendale	2024
Milton John Tinline (1880-1968)	Brandon	1978
Hayden Earl Tolton	Winnipeg	2012
James Harvey Tolton (1898-1987)	Oak Lake	1991
Eric Thompson Trotter (1905-1984)	Belmont	2005
Yoshikazu “Joe” Tsukamoto (1925-2005)	Brandon	2007
Edward W. “Ed” Tyrchniewicz	Winnipeg	2012
U
V
William “Bill” Vaags	Dugald	2006
Neil Van Ryssel	Oakbank	2017
Albert Vielfaure (1923-2007)	La Broquerie	2002
W
Anna Wachna (1882-1980)	Stuartburn	1990
Theodosy Wachna (1874-1960)	Stuartburn	1990
Mary Jane Watt (1867-1933)	Birtle	1981
Ralph Jacob “Clint” Whetter	Boissevain	2009
William Whitelock (1881-1973)	Kelwood	1980
Valentine Winkler (1864-1920)	Winkler	1980
Janet Wood (1863-1944)	Oakville	1979
X
Y
Z

Members (Groups)

Member	Community	Year
Manitoba 4-H Leaders	Various	2013
Pioneer Women of Manitoba	Various	1978

Roll of Honour

Honouree	Community	Year
Merle M. Barkley (1905-1989)	Morden	1992
George Robert Batho (1873-1948)	Winnipeg	1986
Wilfred Alfred Samuel Beattie (1902-1985)	Roblin	1986
Percy Brockinton (1892-1985)	Melita	1986
Donald Ephriam Carrothers (1910-1988)	Austin	1994
Remi Engelbert DePape (1910-1998)	Somerset	1992
James Joseph Dunn (1882-1975)	Russell	1986
Richard Romeo “Dick” Filteau (1920-2013)	Melita	1998
Andrew “Andy” Forsythe (1874-1956)	High Bluff	1993
David Clarence Foster (1899-1966)	Winnipeg	1986
John Stanley Henry (1908-1986)	Oak River	1989
David Gordon Hutchison (1913-2002)	Virden	1996
Susan Gertrude Robson Jasper (1902-2002)	Souris	1992
John Gordon Baxter Killoh (1903-1992)	Hamiota	1994
Joseph E. LaFrance (1902-1989)	Winnipeg	1986
Arthur Lombaert (1890-1965)	Mariapolis	1986
William McCreery (1861-1943)	Treherne	1986
George A. McCrindle (1913-1999)	Foxwarren	1986
John Tully McKenzie (1903-1992)	Winnipeg	1990
John McLean (1815-1902)	Portage la Prairie	1992
Alvin Valentine Mitchener (1888-1962)	Winnipeg	1986
Frank Lionel Moore (1915-1993)	Winnipeg	1994
Garlin Vincent “Ole” Olsen (1926-1989)	Swan River	1991
Arthur Vincent “Art” Rampton (1920-2000)	Dauphin	1996
James Rea (1882-1969)	Russell	1986
Robert Klock Smith (1859-1931)	Oak Lake	1986
Cowley Henry Webster (1902-?)	Virden	1989
John Nicholas Welsh (1894-1964)	Winnipeg	1986

See Also

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Manitoba Agricultural Hall of Fame (Brandon)

Manitoba Agricultural Hall of Fame

Memorable Manitobans: Manitoba Inductees in the Canadian Agricultural Hall of Fame

Sources

We thank Patricia Bailey for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 6 October 2025

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