Memorable Manitobans: Alfred Beatty Rosevear (1894-1992)

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Alfred Beatty Rosevear
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Lawyer.

Born at Detroit, Michigan on 16 February 1894, son of Alfred Ernest Rosevear and Sara Jane Beatty, uncle of Gordon Rosevear Cumming, he was educated at Montreal, graduating with a baccalaureate Arts degree from McGill University (1916).

During the First World War, he enlisted with the Royal Flying Corps and flew a Sopwith Camel in Europe (1917-1919). Coming to Winnipeg after the war, he received a law degree from the Manitoba Law School (1920) and was called to the Manitoba Bar in December 1920. He practiced law in partnership with Gerald Stewart Rutherford and ? McIntosh from 1920 to 1930. He was made a King’s Counsel in 1934. He was a corporate lawyer with the Canadian National Railway at Winnipeg (1936-1945) and Montreal (1945-1959), and with Trans-Canada Airlines (1947-1959). He retired as general solicitor for CNR and general attorney for TCA. He also taught law at McGill University and was a director of the Institute of Air and Space Law (1959-1962). He retired to Burlington, Ontario in 1965.

On 16 October 1929, he married Dorothy Eleanor Mathias (1903-1986) and they had two daughters. He was the first President of the Kinsmen Club of Winnipeg (1924), he served on the Winnipeg School Board (1934-1935), and he was President of the University of Manitoba Alumni Association.

He died at Burlington, Ontario on 23 August 1992.

Sources:

“New King’s Counsel for province appointed,” Winnipeg Free Press, 1 January 1934, page 1.

“Rosevear named to Montreal post,” Montreal Gazette, 29 August 1945.

Biography [Alfred Beatty Rosevear], The Canadian Who's Who, 1960, page 964.

We thank Andrea Clegg and Marianne Cumming for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 6 February 2024

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