Farmer, businessman.
Born in the RM of Springfield on 18 October 1887, son of William Walter Wardrop and Sarah Jane McCleod (1859-1926), he farmed and owned the Wardrop Brickyard for 25 years. On 27 December 1911, he married Mabel Josephine Cousins (1894-1989, daughter of William Henry Cousins) and they had a son, William Leslie Wardrop. He died at Whitemouth on 25 November 1981 and was buried in the Whitemouth Municipal Cemetery.
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Wardrop House (Whitemouth, RM of Whitemouth)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Whitemouth Brickyard (Whitemouth, RM of Whitemouth)
Birth registration, Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 27 November 1981, page 41.
Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 22 December 2019
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