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John Shanks
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Farmer and grain dealer.
Born in Halton County, Ontario in 1861, son of William and Helen Shanks, he was educated in local public schools. He came to Manitoba in 1879 and took up a homestead near Pettapiece, and later added to the original free grant of 640 acres, making 800 acres in all, with five hundred acres under cultivation. By careful and good farming, wheat crops taken off this land have averaged 28 bushels for the past ten years, thus demonstrating that land under cultivation, and cropped thirty years will still produce as good crops as new and later broken up fields.
On 9 December 1887, he married Annie Graham (1866-1948) at Pettapiece and they had four children: Graham Lawson Shanks, Janette Shanks (1892-?), William Pender Shanks (1893-?), and Laura Elfreda Shanks. He was a member of the AOUW, COF, Conservative party, and Presbyterian church. He served as Commissioner in B.R. Member of Minnedosa Presbytery. He started the movement that raised the minimum salaries paid to ministers from $900 to $1,200 per year, and a free manse.
He died at Winnipeg on 7 May 1959 and was buried in the Pettapiece Cemetery.
Marriage registration [John Shanks, Annie Graham], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Birth registration [Graham Shanks], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
1901 and 1911 Canada censuses, Automated Genealogy.
Who’s Who in Western Canada: A Biographical Dictionary of Notable Living Men and Women of Western Canada, Volume 1, edited by C. W. Parker, Vancouver: Canadian Press Association, 1911.
Pioneers of Manitoba by Robert Harvey (1970).
Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 26 September 2024
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