The National Brick Company Limited received its charter of incorporation via Letters Patent under the Manitoba Joint Stock Companies Act on 11 February 1911. Its headquarters were located in Brandon, with the founding partnership comprising merchant Joseph Bower, George Ruller, contractor Sydney Lyle, farmer Edward Foster, and financial agent Hugh John McNeill, all of Brandon, and lumber merchant Robert Conn of the Rural Municipality of Elton. Its initial capital stock was $20,000. The company was short-lived, being gone by 1913.
“Announcement of new companies,” Winnipeg Tribune, 21 February 1911, page 7.
Companies Office corporation documents (CCA 0059), 139N - National Brick Company Limited, GR6427, Archives of Manitoba.
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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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