In 1902, George W. Eastment and his brother James Eastment began making brick on their farm two miles east of Gilbert Plains. By 1907, they had a gas-powered Henry Martin brick-making machine and employed 13 men, giving their brick yard the capacity to produce 15,000 bricks per day. A total of 315,000 bricks was produced that year. The brick produced was white in colour and sold for $8.25 per thousand bricks. The United Church at Gilbert Plains was built using Eastment brick. The Eastment brick yard was no longer listed in the local directories by 1910, when George Eastment died.
Manitoba Brick Yards by Randy Rostecki, Manitoba Historic Resources Branch Report, May 2010.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 9 May 2020
Manitoba Bricks and Blocks
A history of the manufacture of bricks and concrete blocks in Manitoba, based on research by Randy Rostecki for the Manitoba Historic Resources Branch and supplemented by information compiled by Gordon Goldsborough of the Manitoba Historical Society. .
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