Farmer, business executive.
Born at McConnell on 15 July 1894, son of Andrew McConnell (namesake for the village of McConnell) and Janet Keith, he graduated from the Manitoba Agricultural College in 1917. He began farming the “home” farm and was appointed Secretary of the McConnell Cooperative Elevator Association in 1928. He became a Director of Manitoba Pool Elevators in July 1931 and its Vice-President in 1940. He was appointed to the Board of Grain Commissioners of Canada in 1956, becoming its Chairman in April 1961.
On 30 January 1918, he married Mary Allshire (1896-1955) at Hamiota and they had three children: Georgia McConnell (1919-1994, wife of Fred Hyndman), Keith McConnell, and Don McConnell. He later married Anne Elizabeth Cairns (?-1962).
He died at his Winnipeg home, 676 Wellington Crescent, on 22 November 1962 and was buried in the Hamiota Cemetery. He was inducted posthumously into the Manitoba Agricultural Hall of Fame.
See also:
Manitoba Communities: McConnell
Birth registration, Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Marriage registration [George Newton Victor McConnell, Mary Allshire], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
“McConnell named to top grain post,” Winnipeg Free Press, 10 April 1961.
Obituary [Anne Elizabeth McConnell], Winnipeg Tribune, 24 October 1962, page 32.
“Grain board chairman dies at 68,” Winnipeg Tribune, 23 November 1962.
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 24 November 1962, page 30.
Obituary [Georgia Hyndman], Brandon Sun, 12 November 1994, page 12.
Dictionary of Manitoba Biography by John M. “Jack” Bumsted, Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 1999.
Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 30 December 2022
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