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Arthur Milford Preston
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Educator.
Born at Pilot Mound on 7 March 1908, son of Edgar Skirrow Preston (1880-1963) and Harriet Victoria Balfour (?-1971), he was educated at the Pilot Mound School and United College.
He became a teacher and served as the Principal of Albion School (1939-1940), Oak River School (1941-1942), Reston School (1942-1946), and Baldur School (1946-1949). In 1949, he moved to Winnipeg where he taught at Knowles School (1949-1952), Strathcona School (1952-1954), Hugh John Macdonald School (1954-1962), and Sisler High School (1966-1969).
On 28 June 1941, he married schoolteacher Jean Adair Fraser (1912-2001) in the RM of Louise and they had a son and two daughters. They had a family cottage at Victoria Beach.
He died at Winnipeg on 22 August 1981.
Marriage registration [Edgar Skirrow Preston, Harriet Victoria Balfour], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Birth registration [Arthur Milford Preston], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
1911 Canada census, Automated Genealogy.
Marriage registration [Arthur Milford Preston, Jean Adair Fraser], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Annual Reports of the Manitoba Department of Education, Manitoba Legislative Library.
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 25 August 1981, page 61.
Obituary [Jean Adair Preston], Winnipeg Free Press, 16 October 2001.
Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.
We thank Nathan Kramer and Lawrence Prout for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 21 April 2026
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