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Memorable Manitobans: Frederick George Thompson (1886-1972)
Lawyer, municipal politician.
Born at Winnipeg on 11 July 1886, son of Silas Andrew Thompson (1858-1918) and Phoebe Styles (1865-1955), he attended Manitoba College and graduated from the Manitoba Law School. During the First World War, he served in the 78th Battalion, Winnipeg Grenadiers. On 6 June 1912, he married Stella Walker Henderson (1888-1955, daughter of James Belfry Henderson) and they had four children. He was a school board member from 1929 to 1935 and a Winnipeg city councillor from 1936 to 1943. He was a candidate for the Winnipeg South constituency in the 1945 federal election but was defeated by incumbent Leslie A. Mutch. In 1970, he was awarded a Manitoba Centennial Medal by the Manitoba Historical Society. He died at the Deer Lodge Hospital on 10 November 1972 and was buried in the St. John’s Cemetery.
Sources:
Birth and marriage registration, Manitoba Vital Statistics.
1901 Canada census, Automated Genealogy.
Attestation papers, Canadian Expeditionary Force, Library and Archives Canada.
Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.
Obituary [Phoebe Thompson], Winnipeg Free Press, 15 November 1955, page 29.
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 13 November 1972, page 14.
Dictionary of Manitoba Biography by John M. “Jack” Bumsted, Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 1999.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 10 November 2021
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