Memorable Manitobans: Cornelius “Neil” Hoogstraten (1910-2003)

Art dealer, artist.

Born at Winnipeg on 11 February 1910, son of Dutch immigrants Jacob Hoogstraten (1881-1973) and Jansje Pleoger (?-?), brother of Jacob Hoogstraten, he ran a commercial art business until retirement in the 1980s. A longtime member of the Winnipeg Sketch Club, he served as President of the Manitoba Society of Artists (1966-1969). On 18 July 1936, he married writer Lavinia Merle “Vinia” Ragland (1912-2000) and they had a daughter and a son. He moved to Toronto, Ontario in 2001 and died there on 8 December 2003.

Sources:

Birth registration, Manitoba Vital Statistics.

“Pretty ceremony unites Lavinia Merle Ragland and Neil Hoogstraten,” Winnipeg Tribune, 20 July 1936, page 7.

Obituary [Vinia Hoogstraten], Winnipeg Free Press, 23 April 2000, page 421.

Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 12 December 2003.

Lavinia Merle Ragland Hoogstraten, FindAGrave.

Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 20 October 2021

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