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Richard Deans Waugh (23 March 1868 – 20 May 1938) was a Canadian politician, the 23rd Mayor of Winnipeg in 1912 and again from 1915 to 1916. Waugh was born in
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and moved to Canada in 1881 initially working in a lawyer's office before he entered the real estate business. Melrose was among those who established the Winnipeg Real Estate Exchange. In 1897 Thomson Beattie moved to Winnipeg and partnered with Waugh to open Haslam Land Co. Beattie would die on the sinking of the Titanic in 1912. His municipal political career included serving on city council, chairing the city's Parks Board from 1904 to 1908, then as Winnipeg's Controller from 1909 to 1911 before his first term as Mayor in 1912. He especially called for the development of municipal
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s while mayor. Waugh was particularly noted for his participation in
curling Curling is a sport in which players slide stones on a sheet of ice toward a target area which is segmented into four concentric circles. It is related to bowls, boules, and shuffleboard. Two teams, each with four players, take turns sliding ...
and served as president of the Manitoba Curling Association and Winnipeg's Granite Curling Club.
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president
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had Waugh determine the
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playoffs format by drawing names out of a hat. Following the
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, Waugh became a member of the commission which oversaw the
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region while its coal resources were shipped to France. Waugh resigned from the Saarland Commission due to his disagreements with the group's activities. Today, his name is commemorated in Winnipeg as Waugh Road.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Waugh, Richard Deans 1868 births 1938 deaths Curlers from Manitoba Mayors of Winnipeg Scottish emigrants to Canada People from Melrose, Scottish Borders