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Born at Edinburgh, Scotland on 10 December 1867, son of silverware manufacturer J. J. Millidge and Ellen Taite, he was educated at the Edinburgh High School and Edinburgh University then came to Manitoba in June 1889. He farmed for a year then took a job with the Union Bank of Canada at Winnipeg, becoming the branch manager at Boissevain in 1898 and staying there for 12 years before being put in charge of the branch at Brandon in March 1910. He later moved to Toronto, Ontario.
On 10 October 1903, he married Sadie Elsie Frank (1877-1969) of Lucan, Ontario. They had one son, John Ainslie Millidge. He was a member of the Canadian Order of Foresters, Masons, and Anglican church. He died at Toronto, Ontario on 14 May 1950 and was buried in the Park Lawn Cemetery.
The Story of Manitoba by F. H. Schofield, Winnipeg: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1913.
Obituary, Winnipeg Tribune, 18 May 1950, page 23.
We thank Darryl Toews for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
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