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Hugh Alexander Black
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Accountant, civil servant.
Born at Carman on 3 February 1898, son of William Ross Black and Catherine Sutherland (1856-1930), grandson of John Black, he was educated at the public and high schools at Morden and subsequently worked in Winnipeg as a bank clerk.
In July 1915, he enlisted in the 61st battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, serving in France with the 8th Battalion. Wounded in the battle of the Somme in September 1916, he recovered and spent the remainder of the war with the Royal Flying Corps. Returning from military duty in March 1919, he lived at Winnipeg and worked for three years for Imperial Oil Limited. In 1923, he joined the accounting firm of Riddell Stead Graham and Hutchison. He attended the University of Manitoba for accounting training, working in this capacity starting in 1930 before relocating to Alberta in 1933 where he lived at Calgary and Edmonton, latterly in partnership with C. P. Mackintosh of Calgary in the firm of Mackintosh and Black.
On 14 September 1929, he married Hazel Aleta Card (?-?) at Winnipeg and they subsequently had one daughter, Dorcas “Dorine” Black (1930-?).
In October 1942, he moved to Ottawa to join the Department of Labour as Assistant to the Deputy Minister. In May 1946, he became Acting Director of the Annuities Branch and held this position at the time of his death. He was a member of several committees, including the Committee on the History of Wartime Controls, the Public Records Committee, the Government Salvage Committee, the Inter-Departmental Committee on Industrial Information, and the Rehabilitation Information Committee. He was President of the Chartered Accountants Club of Ottawa (1946-1947).
He died at Ottawa, Ontario on 19 December 1948. He was later buried in the Old Kildonan Cemetery.
Birth registration [Hugh Alexander Black], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Marriage registration [Hugh Alexander Black, Hazel Aleta Card], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
“Ex-Winnipegger H. A. Black dies,” Winnipeg Free Press, 20 December 1948. [Manitoba Legislative Library, Biographical Scrapbook B10, page 60]
We thank Darryl Toews and Kaitlyn Montgomery for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Sarah Ramsden and Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 12 September 2026
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