Community activist.
Born on the family farm near Tadmore, Saskatchewan on 28 July 1916, son of Eva and Ambrose Zayshley, he was working as a barber at Flin Flon when, in 1941, he enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force. A short time later, he was diagnosed with tuberculosis and was treated at the Ninette Sanatorium. He then worked as an x-ray technician for the City of Winnipeg Health Department, during which he met and married (1946) his wife, Marguerite Dorothy “Dolly” Baker (1922-1999) and they had a daughter.
He worked as a Surveys Officer for the Sanatorium Board of Manitoba for 28 years, during which he travelled throughout Manitoba to organize x-ray clinics and promote tuberculosis prevention. He appeared in the Board's film Road to Recovery (c1950) and his work was mentioned in the book Memoir of a Living Disease: Dr. Earl Hershfield and Tuberculosis in Manitoba and Beyond (2005) about tuberculosis control in Manitoba.
He died at the Concordia Hospital on 21 June 2007.
Obituary [Marguerite Dorothy Zayshley], Winnipeg Free Press, 24 July 1999, page 57.
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 7 July 2007.
“They left their mark” by Kevin Rollason, Winnipeg Free Press, 30 December 2007.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 12 April 2024
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