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Memorable Manitobans: John Stewart McDiarmid (1882-1965)

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Businessman,MP (1926-1930),MLA (1933-1936),MLA (1937-1940),MLA (1941-1945),MLA (1946-1949),MLA (1950-1953),Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (1953-1960).

Born at Perthshire, Scotland on 25 December 1882, son of Peter McDiarmid (1857-1915) and Elizabeth Stewart (1856-1888), nephew ofJames McDiarmid andJohn McDiarmid, he came to Canada in 1887, spending his early years on a farm nearPortage la Prairie. He later established himself as a lumber merchant, forming the McDiarmid Lumber Company.

He served as an Alderman for theCity of Winnipeg in 1925 and a Liberal Member of Parliament for Winnipeg South from1926 to 1930. Defeated in the1930 federal general election, he was elected to the Manitoba Legislature in1932,1936,1941,1945, and1949. He wasProvincial Secretary (1939-1946),Minister of Mines and Natural Resources (1932-1953),Lands Commissioner (1932-1953),Railway Commissioner (1940-1953),Minister of Industry and Commerce (1940-1953), andDeputy Premier (c1943). He developed new mining industries during the Great Depression, established conservation measures to revive the fur trade, and promoted tourism and recreation within Manitoba.

On 20 May 1908, he married Mable Gertrude Kennedy (1887-1977) atWinnipeg. They had five sons: Peter Brian McDiarmid (1909-1975), John Stewart McDiarmid (1910-1978), Charles William McDiarmid (1911-1912), James Malcolm McDiarmid (1913-1962), and Ross Norton McDiarmid (1918-1981). He was a member of the Winnipeg Kiwanis Club (President),Manitoba Curling Association (President, 1924-1925),Strathcona Curling Club (President, 1917-1918),St. Charles Country Club,St. Andrew’s Society, Winnipeg Game and Fish Association, Caledonian Society,Manitoba Club, andSt. Andrew’s River Heights United Church.

He was inducted into theOrder of the Buffalo Hunt (1957) and received aCity of Winnipeg Community Service Award (1962).

He died at hisWinnipeg home,261 Wellington Crescent, on 5 June 1965 and was buried in theElmwood Cemetery. His honorary pallbearers wereErrick French Willis, Vernon D. E. Smith,Dufferin Roblin,Gurney Evans,Gildas Laurent Molgat, Dr. N. C. Carmichael,Harold James Riley,Robert Tremaine Taft,Edwin Gladstone Cass, Wilbur H. Little, Dr. W. G. Newman, and Liston B. McIllhagga.

There are papers at theArchives of Manitoba.

Sources:

1901 Canada census,Automated Genealogy.

Birth, marriage, and death registrations,Manitoba Vital Statistics.

Obituary,Winnipeg Free Press, 7 June 1965, page 28.

Obituary [J. Malcolm McDiarmid],Winnipeg Free Press, 12 March 1962, page 26.

The Canadian Directory of Parliament, 1867-1967, edited by J. K. Johnson, Public Archives of Canada, Ottawa [Library and Archives Canada], 1968.

Obituary [Peter Brian McDiarmid],Winnipeg Free Press, 30 July 1975, page 48.

Obituary [John Stewart McDiarmid],Winnipeg Free Press, 6 December 1978, page 288.

Obituary [Ross Norton McDiarmid],Winnipeg Free Press, 20 January 1981, page 57.

“Scrapbook & Award Certificates,” John Steward McDiarmid fonds; MG12 N, Box 13 -Archives of Manitoba.

Dictionary of Manitoba Biography byJohn M. “Jack” Bumsted, Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 1999.

Obituaries and burial transcriptions,Manitoba Genealogical Society.

We thank Serena McDiarmid for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared byGordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 4 April 2025

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