William Robertson Wood
The Reverend William Robertson Wood (June 6, 1874Presbyterian minister and politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1915 to 1920, as a member of the Liberal Party.
Wood was born in
D.D. from Bates College
.
He first ran for the Manitoba legislature in the
cabinet minister James H. Howden by 32 votes in the Beautiful Plains constituency.[3] Howden did not seek re-election in the 1915 election, and Wood defeated his Conservative opponent[1] J.H. Irwin[3] by 197 votes. The Liberals won a landslide majority in this election, and Wood served as a backbench supporter of Tobias Norris
's government.
He did not seek re-election in 1920. Wood became secretary of the United Farmers of Manitoba serving until 1925. In that year, he became chairman of the Manitoba Prohibition Alliance.[2]
In 1928, he became principal of the Ahousat Indian School on
Stony Mountain Penitentiary.[2]
He died in Portage la Prairie as the result of injuries sustained in a fall in Poplar Point.[2]
References
- ^ a b "MLA Biographies - Deceased". Legislative Assembly of Manitoba. Archived from the original on 2014-03-30.
- ^ a b c d "William Robertson Wood (1874-1947)". Memorable Manitobans. Manitoba Historical Society. Retrieved 2012-12-15.
- ^ a b c Charlesworth, Hector W (1919). A cyclopædia of Canadian biography : brief biographies of persons distinguished in the professional, military and political life and the commerce and industry of Canada, in the twentieth century. p. 253. Retrieved 2012-12-15.
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