Printer, labour leader.
Born at Edinburgh, Scotland on 21 December 1880, he came to Winnipeg in 1910 and, two years later, established the Wallingford Press in partnership with four other printing trades activists. He worked as its General Manager until retirement in 1954. Described by a lawyer for the Winnipeg Trades and Labour Council as “blundering, well-intentioned Henry,” he served three terms as WTLC President during the First World War and was active in the Dominion Labour Party and later the Independent Labour Party. He died at Trail, British Columbia on 17 February 1960 and was buried in St. James Cemetery.
Death registration, British Columbia Vital Statistics.
Times of Trouble: Labour Quiescence in Winnipeg 1920-1929 by David Edward Hall, MA thesis, University of Manitoba, 1983, page 36.
Dictionary of Manitoba Biography by John M. “Jack” Bumsted, Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 1999.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
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