Nurse, community activist.
Only child of farmers Angus Archibald MacVicar (1889-1954) and Verna “Bonnie” Sissons (1897-1992), she worked as a nurse and, on 9 September 1961, married Henry John Selwood at Portage la Prairie. They had two daughters before separating in 1987. Active as a member of the Centennial Farm Committee in the Manitoba Historical Society, she has received its Douglas Kemp Award twice (2004, 2022).
Obituary [Angus A. MacVicar], Winnipeg Tribune, 9 December 1954, page 30.
“Engagements,” Winnipeg Free Press, 19 August 1961, page 13.
Obituary [Bonnie MacVicar], Winnipeg Free Press, 11 December 1992, page 39.
Obituary [Henry John Selwood], Winnipeg Free Press, 5 September 2020.
Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 6 February 2023
