Railway agent, municipal official.
Born at Effingham, Welland County, Ontario on 9 December 1872, son of George Redpath and Ellen Nason, he was educated at Welland county schools and Thorold High School. He came West in 1891 and entered the service of the Canadian Pacific Railway at Melita. When the Estevan line was first built, Melita being then the end of construction, he went to Souris in 1905 as Agent.
In 1909, he married Edna Rehill (1880-1962) and they had two children: Dora Gertrude Redpath (1910-1972) and Edward Leighton Redpath (1919-1967). He served as President of the Souris Board of Trade and Mayor of Souris (1929-1945). He was a member of the Souris Hospital Board, President of the Souris Boy Scouts, Chairman of the Railway Telegraphers (Souris Division), Masons (Worshipful Master of Glenwood Lodge No. 27), and Presbyterian church.
He died at Souris on 8 July 1952 and was buried in the Souris Glenwood Cemetery.
Birth registrations [Dora Gertrude Redpath, Edward Leighton Redpath], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Pioneers and Prominent People of Manitoba, Winnipeg: Canadian Publicity Company, 1925.
Death registration [Charles Redpath], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Obituary [Edna Mable Redpath], Brandon Sun, 17 September 1962, page 11.
Obituary [Edward Leighton Redpath], Winnipeg Free Press, 27 March 1967, page 24.
Gertrude Redpath, FindAGrave.
We thank Darryl Toews for providing additional information used here.
Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 5 August 2024
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