Arthur Ernest Moore

Who was Arthur Ernest Moore?

Arthur Ernest Moore was an English-born politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1920 to 1922 as a member of the Labour Party.

Moore was born in Lewisham, the son of Charles Frederick Moore and Martha Castle, and was educated at All Saints in Sydenham, in the southern suburbs of London, England. As a boy, he served in the Royal Navy. In 1904, he married Harriet Pink. Moore moved to Canada in 1910. He was a Signal Sergeant in the 44th Battalion of the C.E.F. in World War I, and was wounded twice. After the war, Moore served on a commission set up by the Manitoba government to investigate employment opportunities for veterans. After the work, he worked at the Fort Rouge yards of the Canadian National Railway.

He was elected to the Manitoba legislature in the 1920 provincial election for the constituency of Springfield, east of Winnipeg. Moore defeated Farmer candidate Isaac Cook by 59 votes, and served with the opposition Labour parliamentary group for the next two years.

It is not clear what role he played in the Labour Party's divisions of late 1920, though, in any event, he did not seek re-election in 1922.