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The Women’s Musical Club of Winnipeg was begun in 1894 by six women “to keep up their interest in music…” The organization grew and prospered, and remains vibrant today, with a mandate to “encourage and advance music in the community by the presentation of outstanding artists.” In achieving this goal, the club has brought numerous prominent artists to Winnipeg to perform, many of them on the brink of a prominent career. Included among many of these have been Maureen Forrester and Glenn Gould. The club now presents five concerts each year, as well as an occasional special concert with an outstanding Canadian artist. The size, meeting venue, and musical activities have changed over the years to meet the needs of a changing community. The focus is now on young artists, many of them just starting on a career in the arts. To help in this process, the club offers five scholarships annually, whose recipients are featured in a December concert. For 111 years of musical excellence, the Manitoba Historical Society is pleased to present a Centennial Organization Award to the Women’s Musical Club of Winnipeg.
An MHS Centennial Organization Award was presented by Lieutenant-Governor John Harvard, Jacqueline Friesen, and Gordon Goldsborough on 3 April 2005.
Past-Presidents of the Women’s Musical Club of Winnipeg (no date)
L-R: Mrs. L. Heaton, Mrs. W. H. Collum, Mrs. C. S. Riley, Mrs. A. R. Tanner, Mrs. W. Luck.
Source: Archives of Manitoba
Period
President
1894-1896
Kate Smith (?-1924, wife of Gerald F. Brophy)
1897-1899
Mrs. Angus Kirkland
1899-1900
Mrs. L. A. Hamilton
1900-1901
Margaret Jane Smith (1862-1915, wife of George Frederick Galt)
1901-1903
Anne Frances Harward Eastman (1866-1941, wife of Henry Ahern Higginson)
1903-1906
Mary Irene Gurney Evans (1869-1951)
1906-1907
Miss Kate Drummond
1907-1908
Mrs. Robert Bryce
1908-1909
Mrs. W. S. Grant
1909-1910
Mrs. A. B. Clark
1910-1911
Anne Frances Harward Eastman (1866-1941, wife of Henry Ahern Higginson)
1911-1913
Mrs. C. M. Weiss
1913-1918
Anne Frances Harward Eastman (1866-1941, wife of Henry Ahern Higginson)
1918-1920
Kathleen Johnson (1875-?, wife of Robert Fletcher)
1920-1923
Effie Marcella Hudgins Dafoe (c1865-1944)
1923-1926
Georgina Robinson (c1874-1966, wife of John Young Reid)
1926-1927
Edna Margaret Elliott (?-?, wife of James Bowes Coyne)
1927-1928
Jean Isabel Culver Riley (1883-1965, wife of Conrad Stephenson Riley)
1928-1929
Georgina Robinson (c1874-1966, wife of John Young Reid)
1929-1930
Mrs. J. H. Elliott
1930-1933
Gertrude Rowe Hanson Kilvert (1880-1961)
1933-1936
Jean Isabel Culver (1883-1965, wife of Conrad Stephenson Riley)
1936-1939
Annie Maude Crowe (1887-1976, wife of W. H. Collum)
1939-1942
Nell Irene Rundle (1894-1967, wife of Leonard Dunstan Heaton)
1942-1945
Annie Maude Crowe (1887-1976, wife of W. H. Collum)
1945-1948
Mrs. Harold D. Barbour
1948-1951
Mrs. Douglas G. Edmond
1951-1954
Mrs. G. Lyman Van Vliet
1955-1958
Mrs. Walter Luck
1958-1961
Phyllis Elizabeth Tod (1913-2003, wife of Arthur Robert Tanner)
1961-1962
Mrs. Margaret H. Bach
1962-1965
Margaret Adele Bain Fetherstonhaugh (1904-1975)
1965-1966
Mrs. H. Lloyd Thompson
1966-1969
Margaret Adele Bain Fetherstonhaugh (1904-1975)
1970-1971
Mrs. A. S. Majury
1971-1974
Tannis Thorlakson (wife of George Taylor Richardson)
1974-1976
Mrs. W. C. Guest
1976-1978
Mrs. J. W. G. Armytage
1978-1980
Mrs. Rosalind Dick
1980-1982
Mrs. Puddy Cunningham
1982-1984
Mrs. Lynn Nieman
1984-1986
Mrs. Peggy Roulston
1986-1988
Mrs. Nancy Mitchell
1988-1990
Mrs. Gloria Meadows
1990-1992
Mrs. Ruth Bredin
1992-1994
Mrs. Kathryn Young
1994-1996
Mrs. Virginia Heinrichs
1996-1998
Jean McIntyre Smellie (c1929-2021, wife of Robert Gordon Smellie)
1998-2000
Mrs. Margaret Morse
2000-2002
Mrs. Wilma Woodmass
2002-2004
Mrs. Marjorie Lebrun
2004-2005
Mrs. Gloria Meadows
2005-2008
Mrs. Marjorie Lebrun
2008-2009
Mrs. Virginia Heinrichs
2009-2010
Mrs. Margaret Jeffries
2010-2012
Mrs. Carol Gamby
2012-2013
Mrs. Margaret Kellermann McCulloch
2013
Mrs. Carol Gamby
2013-2015
Kathryn A. Young
2015-2017
Diane Kubas
2017-2019
Laurel Malkin
2019-2021
Alison Baldwin
2021-2022
Millie Hildebrand
Laurel Malkin
See also:
“With Every Note Played”: A History of the Women’s Musical Club of Winnipeg, 1894-2014
by Kathryn A. Young, Winnipeg, 2014
Obituary [Annie Maude Collum], Winnipeg Free Press, 14 October 1976, page 55.
Obituary [Jean Smellie], Winnipeg Free Press, 26 June 2021.
We thank Mary Lynn Duckworth and Alison Baldwin for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 11 December 2022
