Editing Gary Filmon (section)

==Early life==
Gary Albert Filmon was born in [[Winnipeg]], Manitoba, to working-class parents,<ref name="premiers"/> and is of [[Romanian Canadians|Romanian]] and [[Polish Canadians|Polish]]-[[Ukrainian Canadians|Ukrainian]] background.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |encyclopedia=The Encyclopedia of Canada's Peoples – Poles |url=http://www.multiculturalcanada.ca/Encyclopedia/A-Z/p6/8 |title=Multicultural Canada. Politics. |publisher=Canadian Heritage. Library and Archives Canada |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101206160126/http://multiculturalcanada.ca/Encyclopedia/A-Z/p6/8 |archive-date=2010-12-06 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.macleans.ca/article/1990/6/18/local-politics|title=Local Politics. Filmon Reflects The View At Home|work=[[Maclean's]]|author=Greg W. Taylor|date=June 18, 1990|access-date=March 21, 2014}}</ref> His Romanian father [[Anglicisation|anglicized]] the family name from ''Filimon'' to ''Filmon'' when he emigrated westward to Canada.<ref>{{cite book |title=Canadian Folklore, Volume 19, Issue 2|date=1997 |publisher=Folklore Studies Association of Canada|pages=89–90}}</ref>

Filmon was educated at the [[University of Manitoba]] and subsequently worked as a [[civil engineer]].<ref name="cdnenc" /> In 1963, he married [[Janice Filmon|Janice Wainwright]].<ref name="premiers">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z_eSERHkDTYC&pg=PA356 |title=Manitoba Premiers of the 19th and 20th Centuries |pages=356–383 |last=Ferguson |first=Barry |author2=Wardhaugh, Robert |year=2010 |isbn=978-0889772168 |publisher=University of Regina Press |access-date=2014-01-20}}</ref>