Municipal official.
Born at Yorkshire, England on 29 March 1863, son of Henry Proctor (1837-1922) and Hannah Lancaster (1836-1909), brother of Major Joseph Thomas Proctor, he came to the Rural Municipality of Woodlands in 1880.
In 1892, he married Jeanette Wilkes Sabine (1869-1921) and they had five children: Margaret Hannah Proctor (1892-1971, wife of Charles Kingsley Tully), Albert Henry Proctor (1894-1975), John James Edward Proctor (1897-?), Herbert William Proctor (1898-1981), and Helen J. S. Proctor (1904-?). He served on the Woodlands municipal council for 40 years, including a period as Reeve (1928-1937), and he was a school trustee for 30 years. He was also a churchwarden, a representative of the Portage Mutual Insurance Company, Secretary-Treasurer of the local Agriculutral Society, and a member of the Canadian Order of Foresters and Woodlands Educational League.
He died at his Woodlands residence on 21 February 1945 and was buried in the St. George‘s Anglican Cemetery.
Birth marriage and death registrations, Manitoba Vital Statistics.
1901 and 1911 Canada censuses, Automated Genealogy.
“Tully - Proctor,” Winnipeg Tribune, 30 October 1920, page 9.
“A. J. H. Proctor, 82, dies at Woodlands,” Winnipeg Free Press, 26 February 1945, page 4.
Winnipeg estate #33661, Albert J. H. Proctor, Archives of Manitoba.
Saint Georges Anglican Cemetery burial transcriptions, FindAGrave.
This page was prepared by Nathan Kramer.
Page revised: 26 August 2026
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