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John Calder Waugh
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Financial agent.
Born at Melrose, Scotland on 16 February 1874, son of Richard Waugh and Janet Deans (1832-1904), he came to Canada in 1883 and was educated at Manitoba College. He commenced a career with the Commercial Union Assurance Company, at Winnipeg, in 1894. He was promoted to Branch Manager for Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta in 1898, resigning to form his own financial services firm in 1907. By 1911, he was a partner in the firm of Brydges and Waugh Limited with offices located in the Keewayden Building.
On 25 May 1898, he married Maude Cora Moore (1874-1960) at Vancouver, British Columbia. They had five children: Dorothy Melrose Waugh (1899-1995, wife of Arthur Enderton Windatt, daughter-in-law of William Andrew Windatt), Maude Marjorie Deans Waugh (1901-?), Winsome Maude Waugh (1901-?), Constance Mary Waugh (1908-?), and John Waugh (1914-?). He was a member of the Manitoba Club, St. Charles Country Club, Winnipeg Rowing Club (President, 1930), AF & AM, IOF, and Oakland Shooting Club. He served on the executive of the Sanatorium Board of Manitoba.
He died at Winnipeg on 15 November 1930, of carbon monoxide gas poisoning, while storing his automobile for the winter in a garage owned by his friend James H. Elliott. He was buried in the St. John's Cathedral Cemetery.
Marriage registration [John Calder Waugh, Maud Cora Moore], British Columbia Vital Statistics.
Birth registrations [Dorothy Melrose Waugh, Maude Marjorie Deans Waugh, Winsome Maude Waugh, Constance Mary Waugh, John Waugh], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
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.
“Waugh is elected Rowing Club head,” Manitoba Free Press, 19 March 1930, page 24.
“John C. Waugh asphyxiated by monoxide gas,” Winnipeg Tribune, 17 November 1930, page 10.
Death registration [Maude Waugh], British Columbia Vital Statistics.
Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 17 March 2025
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