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Reg Forbes
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Reg Forbes was born September 16, 1924. He and his wife Clara have two children, Bob and Faye. Mr. Forbes served in the Royal Canadian Air Force as a Navigator during World War II. From 1945-1949 he attended the University of Manitoba where he received his B.Sc.A. While working as Village Councillor and as Secretary-Treasurer for the Pilot Mound Hospital, Mr. Forbes initiated the "Save the Soil Campaign," a soil conservation programme which became province-wide, between 1952-1962. From 1956-1975, Mr. Forbes was the Principal of the Agricultrual Extension Centre in Brandon, where he reorganized the Adult Education Centre into the Agricultural Extension Centre. During this period,Mr. Forbes was a founding member of the West-Man Regional Development Corporation and a founder of the Manitoba Committee on Rural Leadership. He was also instrumental in the amalgamation of the Royal Manitoba Winter Fair and the Provincial Exhibition and in the resulting construction of the Keystone Centre. From 1975-1977 Mr. Forbes was a Commissioner for the Grain Handling and Transportation Commission (Hall Commission/GHTC). Following his work with the Commission, Mr. Forbes was employed as the General Manager of the Provincial Exhibition of Manitoba (1977-1979), the Director of the Grain Handling & Transportation Section of the Manitoba Department of Agriculture (1979-1983), the Industrial Commissioner for the Brandon Industrial Commission (1983-1986), and as the Westarc Group Inc. Project Director for delivery under contract of Canadian Rural Transition Programme in Manitoba. Mr. Forbes also held a number of voluntary and elected positions, such as Long-term Director and President of the Royal Manitoba Winter Fair and of the Provincial Exhibition of Manitoba. In 1970-1971 he was the President of the Agricultural Institute of Canada, and from 1978-1981, Mr. Forbes was the first chairman of the Agricultural Advisory Committee of the Canadian Broadcasting Corportation. He was also a member of the Canada West Foundation Board, the Brandon University Board of Governers (1974-1976), and the Federal-Provincial Transportation and Industrial Development Advisory Committee (TIDAC). Mr. Forbes is also a Fellow of the Agricultural Institute of Canada. In 1977 he received the Jubilee Medal and in 1987 he was given the Distinguished Agrologist Award by the Manitoba Institute of Agrologists.