Historic Sites of Manitoba: The Manitoba Museum (190 Rupert Avenue, Winnipeg)

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Founding Members | Board Chairs | Photos & Maps | Sources

Incorporated in 1965 by two Acts of the Manitoba Legislature, the Museum (opened July 1970) and Planetarium (opened May 1968) in Winnipeg became joined as the Manitoba Museum of Man and Nature. It was later renamed the Manitoba Museum.

Founding Members

James Stuart Anderson (1911-1994)

Harry Crowson Ashdown (1885-1971)

J. H. Ashdown

A. B. Brown

George McLeod Brownell (1899-1979)

J. W. Burns

Roland G. Couture (1910-1993)

H. J. Gibson

R. J. Heron

Milton Carman Holden (1903-1975)

Philip K. Isaac

Edward Leith (1906-1999)

William Russel “Russ” Leslie (1891-1985)

Gerald W. Malaher (1903-1984)

Francis Alexander Lavens “Frank” Mathewson (1905-1994)

W. J. Mayer-Oakes

James Archibald McLeod (1904-1979)

D. Medd

R. B. Mitchell

William Lewis Morton (1908-1980)

William Scott Neal (1914-1993)

George Taylor Richardson (1924-2014)

Conrad Sanford Riley (1916-1999)

Jennifer Mary Walker Shay

Charles Gordon Smith (1902-1990)

Henry Gordon Harvey Smith (1902-1973)

Richard W. M. “Dick” Sutton (?-1995)

Ian Maclaren Thompson (1896-1981)

L. M. Thorlakson

M. E. Tisdale

G. Voss

Board Chairs

Period	Chair
1966-1977	Francis Alexander Lavens “Frank” Mathewson (1905-1994)
1977-1979	William Scott Neal (1914-1993)
1979-1981	William John “Jack” McKeag (1928-2007)
1981-1983	Prof. E. O. Anderson
1983-1987	Beverly A. Scott
1987-1990	James R. Lewis
1990-1992	Roger B. King
1992-1994	A. S. Leach Jr.
1994-1996	Rudy C. Isaak
1996-1998	Dr. June M. James
1998-2000	Bill Davis
2000-2002	Arthur R. Pearson
2002-2003	James A. Dolynchuk
2003-2006	Bill Baines
2006-2008	Dr. John McFerran
2008-2010	Ken Ross
2010-present	Sangeet Bhatia

Photos & Maps

Entrance to the Manitoba Museum (May 2017) Source: George Penner Nonsuch gallery at the Manitoba Museum (May 2017) Source: George Penner Site Location (lat/long): N49.90043, W97.13663 denoted by symbol on the map above

See also:

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Strathcona Hotel / Cornwall Hotel (567 Main Street, Winnipeg)

Sources:

The Manitoba Museum

We thank George Penner for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 18 June 2017

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