Historic Sites of Manitoba: St. George’s Anglican Church (Westbourne, Municipality of WestLake-Gladstone)

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Clerics | Photos & Coordinates | Sources

This Anglican church at Westbourne, in the Municipality of WestLake-Gladstone, was constructed in 1929 to replace a structure from 1905 that was destroyed by fire. On 30 May 1920, a brass memorial tablet mounted on dark oak, commemorating parishioners killed during the First World War, was unveiled at a special memorial service in the church. Its current location is unknown.

Clerics

Period	Cleric
1905-1907	Rev. F. Sandeman De Mattos
1908-1910	Rev. Storr
1910-1911	Rev. H. Cooper Aylwin
1912	Mr. Lane
1913	Mr. H. McCartney C. Bryan H. J. Tompkins
1914-1916	Rev. W. B. Singleton
1916-1918	Nelson C. Smith (1887-1968)
1919-1920	Rev. William Adolphus Fyles
1921	Rev. Henri Le Gallais Roy
1925-1926	F. J. Vincent
1926	J. R. Allen
1926-1927	R. L. Taylor
1928	L. A. C. Smith
1929-1930	Ernest Reed
1930	A. H. Davis
1931	Rollo M. Boas
1932	H. Gordon Walker
1933	Hugh R. Percy
1934	J. O. Anderson
1935-1937	Rev. Philip D. Boulton
1937-1938	Rev. G. W. F. McKinney
1939-1940	Rev. Bruce Kirk
1940-1943	Rev. Arthur G. Elcombe
1943-1944	Rev. Sherstone
1944	Maurice P. Poole
1944-1945	Rev. Sherstone
1946-1948	Rev. Arthur Lockham
1949-1953	Rev. Alex K. Morphy
1953-1954	J. B. Rogers
1954-1955	Rev. P. C. Bays
1956	Roland Wood
late 1950s	Rev. John Moorhouse
1959-1965	Rev. Daniel Noonan
1965-1968	Rev. John W. Blair
1968-1969	Rev. Donald Varcoe
1969-1971	Rev. David Barclay
1971-1973	Rev. Harold Sibley
1973-1978	Rev. Richard S. Condo
1978-1981	Rev. James Njegovan
1981	Rev. Karen Binding
1981-?	Rev. George R. Eves

Photos & Coordinates

St. George’s Anglican Church at Westbourne (October 2017) Source: George Penner St. George’s Anglican Church at Westbourne (April 2021) Source: Rose Kuzina St. George’s Anglican Church at Westbourne (April 2021) Source: Rose Kuzina Site Coordinates (lat/long): N50.12961, W98.57889 denoted by symbol on the map above

First World War Casualties

Name	Occupation	Service	Rank	Birth Date	Death Date
Charles Lawrence Beckman [Westbourne]	Farmer	1st Battalion, Canadian Machine Gun Corps	Private	19 April 1889	15 August 1918
Percy Robert Cook [Portage la Prairie, Selkirk, Westbourne, 108 Battalion]	Farmer	5th Company, Canadian Machine Gun Corps	Private	8 June 1893	7 November 1917
John Henry Davey [Portage, Westbourne]	Clerk	29th Battalion, Canadian Infantry	Private	12 June 1895	26 June 1916
George Fletcher [Westbourne]	Farmer	44th Battalion, Canadian Infantry	Lance Corporal	8 July 1896	10 August 1918
James Harrison [Edrans, Westbourne]	Section Man	107th Battalion, Canadian Infantry	Private	19 May 1885	2 June 1917
Percy Johnson [Westbourne]	Farm Labourer	8th Battalion, Canadian Infantry	Private	17 January 1895	20 August 1917
Alexander Urquhart McLeod [Rathwell, Treherne, Westbourne]	Engineer	3rd Battalion, Canadian Engineers	Sergeant	23 October 1892	9 August 1918
William Moss [Westbourne]	Teamster	43rd Battalion, Canadian Infantry	Private	16 November 1891	23 January 1918
Rutur Sigurdur Solvason [Westbourne]	Farmer	1st Canadian Mounted Rifles	Private	25 February 1890	5 June 1916
Albert Edwin Wild [Portage, Westbourne]	Labourer	44th Battalion, Canadian Infantry	Private	18 November 1892	10 August 1918

See also:

Historic Sites of Manitoba: St. George’s Anglican Cemetery / Westbourne Cemetery (Municipality of WestLake-Gladstone)

Sources:

“Handsome Memorial Tablet Unveiled at Westbourne,” Manitoba Free Press, 4 June 1920, page 19.

When the West was Bourne: A History of Westbourne and District, 1860 to 1985 by Westbourne-Longbourne History, 1985, pages 137-141.

We thank Gordon Williams for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by George Penner, Rose Kuzina, Darryl Toews, and Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 24 March 2023

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