Ernest McGirr

Who was Ernest McGirr?

Ernest Newburn McGirr, Q.C. was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba as a Progressive Conservative from 1949 to 1953.

Born in Emerson, Manitoba, McGirr was educated in Morden and Winnipeg. He joined a law firm in Dauphin in 1914 and was made a partner in 1916. McGirr married Elizabeth Stewart, of Griswold, near Oak Lake, in 1916. They had two daughters, Nora Elizabeth McGirr Roots Clawson, an editor who was married and later divorced from Peter Charles Roots, the father of her three children