Sydney Ernest Rogers (November 11, 1888–September 10, 1965) was a Manitoba politician. Between 1937 and 1941, he was the leader of the province's Social Credit Party.

Biography

Rogers was born in 1888 on the Isle of Wight in England, the son of James Alexander Rogers and Elizabeth Spencer. Moving to Canada with his family in 1897, he later worked as a farmer. He was elected reeve of the Rural Municipality of Shell River in 1920, and held this position for well over a decade, serving two terms. In 1905, he married Georgina Elizabeth Johnston. and the group does not seem to have had a leader during the parliament that followed. The Social Credit group, in fact, came to be regarded as little more than an appendage of the Liberal-Conservative coalition.

Rogers retired from the legislature in 1945, and died twenty years later.

References

  • "Memorable Manitobans: Sydney Ernest Rogers (1888-1965)", The Manitoba Historical Society.