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Memorable Manitobans: Robert Harrison Metcalfe (1868-1933)
Realtor, municipal official.
Born at West Bolton Brome, Quebec on 17 April 1868, he came to Manitoba where he gambled and engaged in real estate. It is said that he won the four corners of Marion and Tache in a poker game. On 17 May 1890, he married Mary Elizabeth Drew (?-?) and they had 11 children: Sidney Albert Metcalfe (1890-1954), Kathleen Gertrude “Cassie” Metcalfe (1892-1969), Henry Alexander Metcalfe (1895-1898), Lilian May Metcalfe (1897-1898), Gerald Harrison Metcalfe (1899-1899), Arnold Edward Metcalfe (1900-1974), Eula Reynolds Metcalfe (1902-1989), Doris Eleanor Metcalfe (1905-1988), James Curtis Metcalfe (1907-?), Muriel Maisie Florence Metcalfe (1910-1967), and Charles Melbourne Metcalfe (1912-c1995). He attended the founding 1905 meeting, in Brandon, of the Union of Manitoba Municipalities, as a representative of the City of St. Boniface. He died in St. Boniface on 5 April 1933.
Sources:
1901, 1906, 1911 Canada censes, Automated Genealogy.
Marriage and birth registrations for Metcalfe family, Manitoba Vital Statistics.
“Deaths and funerals,” Winnipeg Tribune, 6 April 1933, page 4.
We thank Leslie McNulty for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 24 August 2018
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