SASKATCHEWAN AND ITS PEOPLE

         EDMUND McKENZIE.         

         
   A man who has achieved great financial success as a result of his own
intelligently directed efforts and laudable ambition, is Edmund McKenzie
of Swift Current, sole owner and business manager of McKenzie & Com-
pany, Limited. He was born in Hants county, Nova Scotia, on the 24th
of October, 1882, a son of John and Martha McKenzie, likewise natives
of Nova Scotia. For many years the father engaged in contracting and
is now retired from active life, having been unusually successful. He is
eighty-two years of age and Mrs. McKenzie is seventy-six.
   The public schools of Nova Scotia afforded Edmund McKenzie his
education and in due time he was graduated from high school. In 1905
he came west and located in Winnipeg, where for one year he was em-
ployed in the store of the Imperial Dry Goods Company, Limited. The
following year he came to Swift Current and in that year established the
men's furnishing store which was conducted under the name of Mc-
Kenzie & Mann. Mr. Mann's death occurred in 1921 and since that time
Mr. McKenzie has been sole owner and manager of the business, and
has changed the name to McKenzie & Company, Limited. Mr. McKenzie
is one of the most prominent merchants of the city and is a man of innate
business ability. One of the dominant factors in his success has been
his ability to recognize an opportunity when it presented itself. He has
keen insight and discrimination and every department of the enterprise
receives his personal supervision.  He has extensive interests outside
of the store and owns various business blocks here and considerable val-
uable farming land.
  On the 28th of August, 1907, Mr. McKenzie was married to Mrs.
Susie Moffet and they have become the parents of five children: Dorothy,
Thelma, Leslie, Douglas and Muriel. Mr. McKenzie is a cooperant factor
in the furtherance of any movement he deems essential to the develop-
ment of the community and he was the first president of the local Kiwanis
Club, the organization composed of the leading business and professional
men of the city. Fraternally he is identified with the Independent Order
of Odd Fellows and along business lines he is identified with the Retail
Merchants Association, of which he is president. He is also a member
of the Swift Current Golf Club.  The religious faith of Mr. McKenzie
is manifest in his attendance at the Church of England, of which he is a
member of the council at the present time.
         

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