The Sanatorium Board of Manitoba was founded in 1904 when a group of citizens organized to establish a tuberculosis sanatorium at Ninette. Incorporated under the Tuberculosis Control Act of 1929, it was renamed the Manitoba Lung Association in 1975.
Period
Chairman
1904-1912
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1912-1913
Robert Mills Simpson (1864-1945)
1913-1923
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1923-1942
John McEachern (1867-1942)
1942-1943
Charles Ernest Stockdill (1881-1960)
1943-1948
George William Northwood (1877-1959)
1949-1954
David Leopold Mellish (1883-1954)
1954-1957
William Whyte (1883-1960)
1958-1964
James Wasson Speirs (1888-1980)
1965-1968
Frank Boothroyd (1909-2003)
1969-1970
Harold L. McKay
1971-1974
Samuel Price Rattray (1903-1979)
1974-1975
Russell S. Allison
1975-1978
Hugh Hamilton Saunderson (1904-1984)
1979-1982
Frank Boothroyd (1909-2003)
1982-1986
Frank McCalman Fowler (1921-1996)
Annual Reports of the Sanatorium Board of Manitoba, Manitoba Legislative Library.
“Allison Sanatorium Chairman,” Winnipeg Free Press, 29 April 1974, page 58.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 13 October 2023
