Memorable Manitobans: Henry Edwin Waller (1868-1937)

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Henry Edwin Waller
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Cattle dealer.

Born at Tilsonburg, Ontario on 29 July 1868, he took a business course at Chatham then went into the livestock business. He came to Manitoba in 1887 and settled at Carberry where he established a business buying and selling livestock and grain. He also owned three sections of land, much of which was farmed by tenant farmers. In 1891 he married Winnifred Maud Walker (1872-1937, daughter of William Walker). He was a Mason. He died at Vancouver, British Columbia on 19 March 1937 and was buried in the Mountain View Cemetery.

Sources:

A History of Manitoba: Its Resources and People by Prof. George Bryce, Toronto: The Canadian History Company, 1906.

Death registration [Henry Edwin Waller], British Columbia Vital Statistics.

Obituary [Maud Winnifred Walker Waller ], Vancouver Sun, 29 January 1937, page 17.

Obituary [Henry Edwin Waller], The Province, 20 March 1937, page 19.

We thank Darryl Toews for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 21 March 2024

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