This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Garson, Beam, Swainson, Pickersgill, Campbell, Forrester, Bingerman, Burch, Anderson, Turnbull, Bissett Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/mNC.2ACE/1765 Message Board Post: >From the Winnipeg Free Press, Friday, May 6, 1977, page 33, under DEATHS AND FUNERALS. Their is a photo with this obit. "Died at Winnipeg, on Thursday, May 5, 1977. Stuart Garson was born December 1, 1898 at St. Catharines, Ont.. he came to Winnipeg as a child. He entered the Manitoba Law School and graduated with an L.L.B. degree. He was called to the Manitoba Bar in 1919 and practiced law at Ashern and Ericksdale until 1936. He entered politics in 1927 as the M.L.A. for the constituency of Fairford and continuoulsy represented that constituency until 1948. He entered the Cabinet in 1936 as Provincial Treasurer. In 1942, he became Premier of Manitoba but continued in the post of Privincial Treasurer. In additionas Minister of Dominion Provincial Relations he was involved in the establishment of new fincial and fical arrangements between the Federal Government and the Provincial Governments. Stuart Garson resigned as Premier in 1948, he entered the Cabinet of Prime Minister St. Laurent as Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada. Throughout the period 1948 - 57, he was a member of parliament for the constituency of Marquette. ! After 30 years in public life he returned to the private practice of law in 1957 with the Winnipeg firm of Johnston, Garson, Forrster, Davison and Taylor where he remained until he retired in 1965. He was named a Companion of the Order of Canada in June, 1971. He was a member of the Masonic Order and Scottish Rite. He was also a member of St. Andrew's River Heights United Church. Stuart Garson is survived by his wife Emily; his daughters, Marjorie Beam and Eleanor Swainson, and grandchildren, Sara and Matthew Beam and Eirik and Andrew Swanison. Funeral services will be held in the Thomson Funeral Chapels, Broadway at Furby on Saturday, May 7, 1977 at 3:00 p.m. Creamation will follow and the service will terminate at the chapel. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations to a favoriate charity would be appreciated by the family. The honourary pallbears, will be: The Honourable J. W. Pickersgill, The Honourable D. L. Campbell, D. B. W. Forrester, Q.C., R. Bingerman, H. L. Burch, J. A. Anderson, N. Trunbull, I. R. Garson, Dr. E. D. R. Bissett, and A. G. S. Garson." For information only. The poster is not reated to nor is researching any of the above.