Ritchie, Gordon

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Ritchie, Gordon

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  • Ritchie, William “Gordon" David

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1918-1998

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Gordon Ritchie was born in Dauphin, Manitoba on September 27, 1918. He attended Mountview school, Dauphin Collegiate, and Manitoba Medical College. He practiced medicine in Dauphin and throughout the Swan River valley. He was also the MP for Dauphin for 12 years, from 1968 to 1980, working weekends still as a general practitioner and ophthalmologist.

Ritchie ran for the Progressive Conservative Party and in 1968 was elected by a margin of 1,800 votes and again with much larger margins in 1972 and 1974. Ritchie was very active in parliament as a critic of government policies, particularly in tax reform and unemployment insurance. He sided with several conservative causes and even opposed his own party's support for various aspects of bilingualism.

He also served on the board of the Dauphin General Hospital and as a school trustee for the Dauphin Ochre School Division. He was on the Manitoba Medical Association Board of Directors for 12 years.

Following his political career, he returned to Dauphin to continue his medical practice until 1996. Ritchie died in 1998 in Dauphin.

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Finding aid created by Dr. Richard E. Bennett (1985). Finding aid encoded by Lori Podolsky Nordland (September 2002). Revision History: July 26, 2005 - MSS 35 converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02.xsl (sy2003-10-15). Revised by N. Courrier (April 2019). Revised by M. Horodyski (May 2020).

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Obituary, Dauphin Herald, December 1, 1998

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