Memorable Manitobans: Stuart Duncan Schultz (1892-1974)

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Stuart Duncan Schultz
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Physician, Mayor of Brandon (1955-1957).

Born at Belmont on 24 December 1892, son of Frank Albert Schultz and Margaret Maria MacPhail (1854-1947), brother of Ivan Schultz and Otto Reginald Schultz, he attended the University of Manitoba and, in 1916, enlisted in the Canadia Expeditionary Force, serving with the 226th Overseas Battalion. Taking his military discharge in England, he spent four years studying medicine at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons in London.

On his return to Canada in 1925, he joined the medical staff of the Brandon Hospital for Mental Diseases, retiring in 1959 as its Superintendent. He served as President of the Manitoba Medical Association (1944-1945). Following his retirement to Winnipeg, he was associated with the Stony Mountain Penitentiary.

On 30 August 1920, he married Jemima Meiklejohn Gibson (c1901-1983) at Winnipeg. They had a daughter, Sheila Schultz (wife of Larry Taylor). He was the director of the Brandon Schubert Choir for many years and was a Brandon city alderman (1942-1954) and Mayor (1955-1957).

He died at Winnipeg on 10 August 1974 and was buried in the Baldur Cemetery.

Sources:

Birth registration [Stuart Duncan Schultz], Manitoba Vital Statistics.

1911 Canada census, Automated Genealogy.

Marriage registration [Stuart Duncan Schultz, Jemina Meiklejohn Gibson], Manitoba Vital Statistics.

“Brandon man heads medicos,” Winnipeg Free Press, 15 September 1944, page 22.

Obituary, Winnipeg Tribune, 12 August 1974. [Manitoba Legislative Library, Biographical Scrapbook B16, page 246]

Obituary [Jemima M. Schultz], Winnipeg Free Press, 9 April 1983, page 62.

Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 8 February 2025

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