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Herbert Hugh Winearls
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Grain merchant.
Born at Norfolk, England on 22 April 1863, son of Henry Winearls and Elizabeth Martin, he attended Shrewsbury College, graduating in 1880. He ran the home farm for two years then, in 1882, he emigrated to Canada and settled at Beulah where he farmed until 1896. In that year he went to Port Arthur [now Thunder Bay, Ontario] where he engaged in the grain business, eventually moving to Winnipeg, where he served as a commission broker between 1901 and 1919.
During the 1885 North West Rebellion, he served with Boulton’s Scouts. In 1897, he married Helen May Binnington (?-?) of Winnipeg and they had four children: Herbert Alymer Winearls (1898-?), Enid Marjory Winearls (1899-?), Iris Dorothy Winearls (1902-?, wife of ? Cameron), and Phyllis Daphne Winearls (1909-1988). He was a member of the Winnipeg Grain and Produce Exchange, Winnipeg Clearing Association, and Independent Order of Foresters.
He died at his Winnipeg home, 580 Gertrude Avenue, and was buried in the St. John’s Cathedral Cemetery.
1901 Canada census, Automated Genealogy.
Birth registrations [Enid Marjory Winearls, Dorothy Winearls, Phyllis Daphne Winearls], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
A History of Manitoba: Its Resources and People by Prof. George Bryce, Toronto: The Canadian History Company, 1906.
“Herbert H. Winearls,” Winnipeg Tribune, 25 September 1915, page 99.
Death registration [Herbert Henry Winearls], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
“H. H. Winearls, veteran of ‘85, dies at home,” Winnipeg Tribune, 28 August 1943. [Manitoba Legislative Library, Biographical Scrapbook B9, page 136]
Obituary [Phyllis Daphne Winearls], Winnipeg Free Press, 10 December 1988, page 58.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 16 April 2024
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