Valentine Winkler

Herausgegeben:Surhone, Lambert M.; Timpledon, Miriam T.; Marseken, Susan F.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Valentine Winkler (March 18, 1864 June 7, 1920) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba as a Liberal from 1892 to 1900, and again from 1900 to 1920. Winkler was a cabinet minister in the government of Tobias C. Norris. His brother, Enoch Winkler, was also a member of the provincial legislature from 1888 to 1899. Winkler was born in Neustadt, Grey County, Canada West (now Ontario), and educated at public schools in the area. He moved to Manitoba in 1879 after the death of his father, and worked in his brother Enoch Winkler's lumberyard. In 1883, he began his own grain and lumber business in Morden. He began farming in 1888. After the incorporation of the Municipality of Stanley in 1890, Winkler was chosen as the community's first reeve. He served in this position until 1892. In the same year, the village of Winkler was established in Manitoba, named after him. He ran a grain elevator and lumber business in the community. Winkler was also an active freemason.

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• Verlag: Betascript Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 72
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9786131169540
• ISBN-10: 6131169543
• Artikelnr.: 29994236