In July 1892, Amable Marion, a family member of the Marion brick makers of St. Boniface, established a brick yard by the lake near Oak Lake. His brick-making machinery was built by a Mr. Berard and Marion was in full production by 1893. By early August he had produced 100,000 pure, white bricks that were used, among other places, in the 1893 construction of the Oakwood School building. The Marion yard was in business until 1900 when the lakeshore clay was exhausted.
Manitoba Brick Yards by Randy Rostecki, Manitoba Historic Resources Branch Report, May 2010.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 10 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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