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the School Board; member of the Board of Trade; member of the Masonic
Order. Baptist. Conservative. Joined C.E.F., 214th Battalion (Rank of Captain);
overseas and transferred to 243rd Battalion. Address, Watrous.
EGGERTSON: Arni G., barrister and solicitor, Wynyard. Born at Winnipeg,
. Man., 1896, a son of Ami and
Oddney Oddson. Married Maja Laxdal, 1920, and has one son. Educated at the Winnipeg
public school, Central Collegiate, Kelvin Technical, Manitoba
University. Family came to Canada
from Iceland.
Mr. Eggertson's father settled near Lake Winnipeg and
farmed for some years; was in the real estate business and represented the
Icelandic Government at Washington,
1916-17-18. Alderman of the City of Winnipeg
for Ward 4 in 1906-07, 17. Contested Winnipeg
in the Liberal interests in election of 1922. The subject of this sketch was in
his second year in arts at Manitoba College
when he joined the Royal Air Force at Winnipeg,
September, 1917. At Toronto his
machine, crashed and he was invalided and discharged, Sept., 1918; ret1frned to
college and graduated in 1921; articled to H. A. Bergman, K.O., of Rathwell,
Johnson, Bergman & McGhee, Winnipeg.
Called to the bar of Manitoba, December 24th, 1921; Saskatchewan,
Aug. 29th, 1922, and opened
practice at Wynyard. Played hockey with his University team. Lutheran. Liberal.
Address, Wynyard.
DENNISON: William Edward, merchant, vice-president Provincial Boards of
Trade, of the firm of Ross & Dennison, Assiniboia. Born Westport,
Leeds county, Ont., 1873, a son of Robert and Catherine
(Percell) Dennison. Married Dora Stewart, daughter of. John Stewart, Wales,
Ont. Has one daughter. Educated at Bedford Mills, Que., and Westport
schools. Mr. Dennison was born on a farm in Leeds Co. His father
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