Civil servant, professor.
Born in Russia on 16 October 1905, he came to Canada in 1926, studying agriculture at the University of Manitoba and graduating in 1935. In 1939, he received an MSc degree from MacDonald College of McGill University. For ten years, he served with the Provincial Department of Agriculture as an agricultural representative at Teulon (1943-1948) and Morden (1948-1951), and, in 1950, was appointed Principal of the Agricultural and Homemaking School at Brandon. He served as President of the Manitoba Agricultural Representatives Association (1950) and founding President of the Manitoba Farm Vacation Association (1972).
In 1952, he joined the University of Manitoba as Director of the diploma course in Agriculture. In the 1960s, he served on a committee of the Manitoba Centennial Corporation. In recognition of his community service, he was elected a Fellow of the Agricultural Institute of Canada (1971), received an honorary doctorate from the University of Manitoba (1981), and was inducted into the Manitoba Agricultural Hall of Fame (2006).
On 22 February 1936, he married Lillian Louise “Lilly” Schroeder (1907-1991) at Winnipeg and they had two daughters and a son.
He died at Winnipeg on 7 May 1989.
Marriage [Eugene Hausknecht Lange, Lilly Schroeder], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
History of Manitoba Agricultural Extension Staff, 1913-70 by Manitoba Agricultural Representatives Association, c1974, pages 135, 140.
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 9 May 1989, page 45.
Obituary [Lillian L. Lange], Winnipeg Free Press, 5 October 1991, page 46.
“Inductees all have Westman roots,” Brandon Sun, 23 July 2006, page 23.
This page was prepared by Kris Keen and Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 20 February 2025
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