Educator.
Born in North Wales around 1884, he arrived in Canada in 1907 and worked as a delivery clerk at
Winnipeg
while completing his education. After receiving a third class teaching certificate at the
Central Normal School
, he embarked on a career as a teacher, serving as the Principal of
Kemnay School
(1917-1921),
Lenore School
(1921-1923), and
Harding School
(1923-1949). He retired to
Brandon
. On 28 December 1910, he married Margaret Roberts (c1884-1958) at Winnipeg. They had three children. He died at Brandon in early 1954.
Sources:
Marriage registration,
Manitoba Vital Statistics
.
Annual Reports of the Manitoba Department of Education
,
Manitoba Legislative Library
.
1921 Canada census, Ancestry.
“Legal notice,”
Brandon Daily Sun
, 24 April 1954, page 15.
Home to Harding: 1879-1981
by Harding History Committee, 1981. [
Manitoba Legislative Library
, F5648.H36 Hom]
Obituary [William Gareth Evans],
Winnipeg Free Press
, 2 November 2002, page 52.
This page was prepared by
Gordon Goldsborough
.
Page revised: 1 January 2015
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