Educator.
Born at Dauphin on 4 June 1907, eldest daughter of Lilian Minnie Collins (1876-1955) and William John Pinn, she grew up at Gladstone and attended both Gladstone School and teacher training. She taught during the 1920s and 1930s, including at Excelsior School (1926-1927), Elam School (?-?), Bear Creek School (?-?, 1920s), North Star School (1930-1931), and Tobacco Creek School (1937-1938). In the 1950s, she returned to the classroom at Maple School (1954-1955), Chapman School (1955-1956), Royal School (1956-1957), Bethany School (1957-1958), Loudoun School (1958-1959, Principal), and St. Charles School (1959-1967).
On 13 July 1938, she married James Edward McLachlan (1897-1954) at Gladstone United Church and they subsequently had three children: James McLachlan, Reta/Rita McLachlan, and Sandra McLachlan (wife of Gary Dunn). Upon returning from honeymoon at Devil's Lake, North Dakota, they took up residence in the Morris area. She was a member of the Charleswood United Church for 29 years.
She died at the Tuxedo Villa Nursing Home in Winnipeg on 2 October 1984 and was buried in the Morris Cemetery.
Birth [Mary Charlotte Pinn] and marriage [Mary Charlotte Pinn to James Edward McLachlan] registrations, Manitoba Vital Statistics.
“McLachlan-Pinn,” Winnipeg Free Press, 21 July 1938, page 9.
Traveler dies,” Winnipeg Tribune, 12 October 1938, page 7.
Obituary [James E. McLachlan], Winnipeg Tribune, 28 December 1954, page 3.
“An era of 64 years ends,” Gladstone Age, 31 July 1968, page 6.
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 4 October 1984, page 44.
Morris Cemetery burial transcriptions, FindAGrave.
Gladstone Cemetery burial transcriptions, FindAGrave.
This page was prepared by Nathan Kramer.
Page revised: 23 September 2026
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