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Dr. Irving Moffat Cleghorn
practised medicine in Baldur for over 30 years. He was born in
Dumfriesshire, Scotland, Aug. 22, 1863. After
graduation from the University of Manitoba in 1894, he married
Katherine Ann Murray, a pioneer school teacher in the area. Miss Murray
was born Oct. 31, 1868 at Lochaber Antigonish County, Nova Scotia. She
taught school in the Belmont area prior to her marriage and was the
first teacher in the school. Dr. Cleghorn and Katherine were both of
the Presbyterian faith and subsequently United Church. They built and
resided in the fine old home at the corner of Elizabeth and Government
Road. In 1927 Dr. Cleghorn was elected as the Liberal representative
for the constituency of Mountain and was a sitting member at his death,
Nov. 19, 1929. Katherine lived in Baldur for several years after his
death, and passed away in
Winnipeg, Sunday, July 17, 1955. Both are interred in the Baldur
Cemetery.
Irving Murray Cleghorn, their eldest son,graduated in medicine from the
University of Toronto in 1922 and, after a period of post-graduate work
at the Winnipeg Geneial Hospital and the New York Lying-in Hospital,
returned to Baldur to practise with his father. He then moved to
Winnipeg in 1930 and spent the rest of his career with the Department
of Health of the Province of Manitoba.
Their second son, Raymond, graduated in 1925 from the School of
Pharmacy
at the University of Manitoba. In 1930, after a short period as a
druggist in Winnipeg, he returned to Baldur. Raymond owned and operated
Cleghorn's Drug Store, which had been founded by his father, until his
retirement in 1968. The drug store was one of the oldest
family-operated stores of its kind in Manitoba.
Adapted from Come into our Heritage, page
348.
Cleghorn’s Pharmacy
Note the partially obscured sign near
the top right of the photo. It
appears that it may say, “SURGERY”
Photo from the S. J. McKee Archives
More than just prescriptions and
aspirin, the modern drug store in 1904
seems to have stocked quite a variety of merchandise. The soda fountain
contributed to its popularity as a meeting place.
It was quite normal for a Doctor in Pioneer times to supplement his
income through the operation of a drug store. Dr. Cleghorn had the
town’s first telephone installed in 1899 to connect his house with his
store.
The Manitoba Government telephone office was located in the
downstairs of Dr. Cleghorn's office in 1904; then later in 1910 moved
upstairs until the Telephone building was built in 1928.
The Cleghorn House
Photo from the S. J. McKee Archives
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