Archibald Adam Herriot

1881 - 1956  (75 years)

• Name	Archibald Adam Herriot
  Born	16 Oct 1881	Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-130589
  Died	3 Dec 1956	Deer Lodge, , Manitoba   [2]
  Buried	Brookside Cemetery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada   [2]
  Person ID	I130589	Generations
  Last Modified	6 Apr 2024

  
  

  Father	James Herriot,   b. 6 Jan 1853, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 5 Oct 1942, Souris, , Manitoba, Canada  (Age 89 years)
  Mother	Maria "Mary" Mihm,   b. 5 Jan 1851, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 11 Sep 1912  (Age 61 years)
  Married	22 Sep 1874	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [3]
  Family ID	F35766	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  Archibald Adam Herriot Source: Manitoba Legislative Library, Dept. Education Annual Report, 1931.

  
  

• Notes

  Memorable Manitobans: Archibald Adam Herriot (1881-1956) Click to enlarge Archibald Adam Herriot Click to enlarge Educator. Born near Waterloo, Ontario on 16 October 1881, son of James Herriot and Mary Michon, the family moved to Manitoba in 1882 and settled on a farm near Souris. An active athlete, he played lacrosse, soccer and baseball, later taking up golf and curling. He graduated from Souris High School, Brandon Collegiate, and University of Manitoba. He served for three years during the Boer War in South Africa then, in 1902, began working as a school teacher at Elkhorn, Virden, and Holland (1906-1911). While at Holland, he also was Editor of the Holland Observer. In 1911 he became a School Inspector at Gladstone, covering a large area of western Manitoba. He moved to St. Boniface in 1925 where he continued working as a school inspector until his retirement in 1947. He came out of retirement in April 1952. On 9 July 1908, he married Clara Eleanor Wood (1885-1975) at Holland. They had two children, James Archibald "Archie" Herriot (1910-1976) and Margaret Evelyn Herriot (1911-1974, wife of Donald C. Bryden). He was a President (1929-1930) and Life Member of the Manitoba Education Association, President of the Winnipeg Schoolmasters Association, a Life Member of the Canadian Education Association and the Canadian Army, Navy and Air Force Veterans, a President of the South African War Veterans and the Mentors' Club, and a member of the executive of the Southwood Golf Club. He held the Queen Victoria Medal for service in South Africa and the Queen Elizabeth Coronation Medal. He wrote articles on education and harness racing as well as poetry. He died at Winnipeg on 3 December 1956 and was buried in the Brookside Cemetery. His articles for the Manitoba Historical Society: School Inspectors of the Early Days in Manitoba MHS Transactions, Series 3, 1947-48 Season Historic Sites of Manitoba: Germania School / Herriot School No. 1012 (Municipality of Glenella-Lansdowne) Sources: Ontario birth registration, Ancestry. 1901 Canada census, Automated Genealogy. Marriage registration, Manitoba Vital Statistics. Annual Reports of the Manitoba Department of Education, Manitoba Legislative Library. "3 Manitoba School Inspectors mark 100 years of service," Winnipeg Free Press, 14 December 1944, page 12. "St. Boniface honors Inspector A. Herriot," Winnipeg Free Press, 21 March 1947. "South African war veterans re-elect A. A. Herriot," Winnipeg Free Press, 26 January 1949. Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 4 December 1956. The History of the Manitoba Educational Association by Ernest Butterworth, MEd thesis, Faculty of Graduate Study and Research, University of Manitoba, 1965. Obituary [Margaret E. Bryden], Winnipeg Free Press, 16 March 1974, page 41. Obituary [Clara Eleanor Herriot], Winnipeg Free Press, 4 September 1975, page 35. This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough. Page revised: 15 November 2017 Goldsborough, G. (2019). Memorable Manitobans: Archibald Adam Herriot (1881-1956). Mhs.mb.ca. Retrieved 9 June 2019, from https://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/people/herriot_aa.shtml

  
  

• Sources

  [S655] z Vit - ON - Birth Registration. Archibald Adam Harriot Date of Birth:16 Oct 1881 Gender:Male Birth Place: Waterloo Twp., Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Father's name:James Harriot Mother's name:Mary Michon [S3231] Find A Grave, Adam Archibald Herriot ( - 1956) - Find A Grave Memorial. (2017). Findagrave.com. Retrieved 29 August 2017, from https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=111544557&ref=acom. [S7] News - ON, Waterloo, Kitchener - Berliner Journal (1859-1917), 24 Sep 1874. 22 Sep 1874 By Rev. Dr. Funcken, C.R., Berlin, James Harriot of Berlin was married to Maria Mihm of Centreville.

  
  

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  Born - 16 Oct 1881 - Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Died - 3 Dec 1956 - Deer Lodge, , Manitoba Buried - - Brookside Cemetery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada  = Link to Google Earth