Lawyer, judge, author.
Born at Winnipeg on 9 June 1907, son of Lewis St. George Stubbs and Mary Alice Wilcock (1882-1955), he worked for the Winnipeg Tribune (1928-1929) before receiving a law degree from the University of Manitoba (1936). He served in the Royal Canadian Air Force (1941-1945) then returned to practice law in Winnipeg. He was an Air Force representative in the 1946 war services election to the Manitoba Legislature. After years of law practice with his father and brothers, in 1970 he was appointed senior judge of the juvenile and family court, serving until retirement in 1982.
He was married twice, first on 1 June 1937 to Margaret Daphne Ewart (1915-1984, sister of William Bissett “Bill” Ewart) with whom he had two daughters and a son. He later married Lillian ? (?-?). He published a number of books, including Lawyers and Laymen of Western Canada (1939), Men in Khaki: Four Regiments of Manitoba (1941), Prairie Portraits (1954) and Four Recorders of Rupertsland (1967). He was also an ardent advocate of the work of the Icelandic poet Guttormur Jónsson Guttormson, who became the subject of his last book, In Search of a Poet (1975). He was inducted into the Manitoba Order of the Buffalo Hunt (1982) and given an honorary doctorate by the University of Manitoba (1995).
He died at the Victoria General Hospital on 6 June 1995.
His articles for the Manitoba Historical Society:
Honourable Edmund Burke Wood
MHS Transactions, Series 3, No. 13, 1956Matthew Baillie Begbie
MHS Transactions, Series 3, No. 25, 1968The First Juvenile Court Judge: The Hon. Thomas Mayne Daly KC
MHS Transactions, Series 3, No. 34, 1979
Birth registrations [Roy St. George Stubbs, Margaret Daphne Ewart], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Marriage registration [Roy St. George Stubbs, Margaret Dophine Ewark], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Obituary [Margaret St. George Stubbs], Winnipeg Free Press, 22 May 1984, page 59.
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 9 June 1995, page 33.
Dictionary of Manitoba Biography by John M. “Jack” Bumsted, Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 1999.
We thank Oliver Bernuetz (Legislative Library of Manitoba) for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 21 November 2024
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