MHS Archives: Manitoba Businesses

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Centennial Businesses | Other Businesses | See Also | Centennial Business Award Program

This is a list of Manitoba organizations researched by the Manitoba Historical Society.

Centennial Businesses

MHS Centennial Businesses have operated continuously in Manitoba for over 100 years, and have been designated by the Manitoba Historical Society. Further information on this program is available here.

Business	Type of business	Year founded
Aikins MacAulay and Thorvaldson / MLT Aikins	Law firm	1879
Alsip’s Building Products and Services	Construction materials	1905
Arctic Ice Company / Arctic Glacier	Ice products	1882
Ash Temple	Dental supplies	1895
Baldur Gazette	Newspaper	1898
Bell’s Trailer Hitches	Machine shop	1917
Birtle Eye-Witness	Newspaper	1891
Boissevain Recorder	Newspaper	1899
Pollock Hardware	Hardware store	1922
Brown and Rutherford Company / Gillfor Distribution	Lumber planing mill	1872
Burrows Lumber Inc.	Lumber merchant	1879
Canadian Pacific Railway Company / CPKC	Railway & shipping	1881
Carberry News-Express (Carberry News, Norfolk Intelligencer and Advertiser, Carberry Express)	Newspaper	1889
Christie School Supply / Christie’s Office Plus	School and office supplies	1881
Deloraine Times and Star	Newspaper	1887
Dufferin Leader / Valley Leader	Newspaper	1898
Fort Garry Hotel	Hotel	1913
Glenboro Gazette	Newspaper	1892
Grandview Exponent	Newspaper	1901
Great-West Life Assurance Company / Canada Life	Insurance	1891
Guinn & Simpson Co. Ltd.	Monument and funeral stone	1905
Hartney Machine and Motors Ltd.	Machine and vehicle dealer	1899
Hudson’s Bay Company	General mercantile	1670
Killarney Guide	Newspaper	1894
J. J. H. McLean	Musical instruments	1881
James Richardson & Sons Ltd. / Pioneer Grain Company / Richardson International	Grain merchant, oil and gas, etc.	1880
Manitoba Government Telephones / Manitoba Telephone System / MTS AllStream / Bell MTS	Telecommunications	1908
Manitou Western Canadian	Newspaper	1900
Mariaggi Hotel	Hotel	1903
Marlborough Hotel	Hotel	1914
Meridian Trail General Store / Douglas General Store (Argyle, RM of Rockwood)	General mercantile	1912
Minnedosa Tribune	Newspaper	1883
Muzeen and Blythe	Machining	1922
Neepawa Press / Neepawa Banner and Press	Newspaper	1896
North West Company	General mercantile	1785
Occidental Hotel	Hotel	1886
Parrish & Heimbecker	Grain merchant	1909
Penner International	Trucking	1923
Pilot Mound Sentinel Courier / The Hometown View	Newspaper	1889
Pitblado	Law firm	1882
Pollock Hardware	Hardware	1922
Pringle’s Men’s Wear of Boissevain (Welch’s Men’s Furnishings)	Clothing merchant	1898
Queens Hotel	Hotel	1881
Quintex Services Limited	Industrial Cleaning	1911
Reesor’s Jewellery	Jeweller	1882
Shoal Lake Star	Newspaper	1889
Souris Plaindealer	Newspaper	1892
Southern Manitoba Review (Rock Lake Review)	Newspaper	1898
Stonewall Argus & Teulon Times	Newspaper	1893
Swan Valley Star & Times	Newspaper	1900
H. P. Tergesen Store	General store	1899
Thomson Funeral Chapel	Funeral chapel	1879
Treherne Times	Newspaper	1899
Trim Services Ltd.	Garment manufacturers supplier	1901
Vendome Hotel	Hotel	1898
Virden Empire-Advance (Virden Advance)	Newspaper	1885
Wawanesa Mutual Insurance Company	General insurance	1896
Westeel	Steel products	1905
Wilson Furniture	Furniture merchant	1883
Windsor Hotel (destroyed 13 September 2023)	Hotel	1903
Winnipeg Free Press (Manitoba Free Press)	Newspaper	1872
Winnipeg Hotel	Hotel	1881
Winnipeg Supply and Fuel Company / Winnipeg Supply Service Experts	Home and building supplies	1904
Woodbine Hotel	Hotel	1878

Other Businesses

A. Akman and Son / Akman Construction

Algoma Steel Bridge Company

Allan, Lang, and Killam / Allan, Lang, Killam, and McKay / Allan, Killam, and McKay

Alliance Grain Company

Allied Amusements / Western Theatres Limited

Alloway and Champion Bank

Alsip Sandstone Brick Company / Birds Hill Sandstone Brick Company / Wood’s Brick Company

Altona Echo / Red River Valley Echo

A. S. Arnold

Arlington Builders Limited

Aronovitch and Leipsic

Atlas Elevator Company

G. A. Baert Construction Company

Balmoral Brick Company

Bank of British North America

Bank of Hamilton

Bank of Montreal

Bank of Nova Scotia

Bank of Toronto / Toronto-Dominion Bank

N. Bawlf Grain Company

Beaver Elevator Company

Belmont News

Benjaminson Construction Company

Binscarth Express

Bird Woodall and Simpson Construction / Bird Construction Company

Blackburn and Mills Grain Company / Blackburn Mills and Graham

Blackwood Brothers / Blackwoods Limited

Boland Brothers Construction Company

Brandon Construction Company

Brandon Sun

Brandon Times

Bready, Love and Tryon / Winnipeg Elevator Company / Canadian Elevator Company

Brett Manufacturing Company

Brigden’s of Winnipeg

British America Elevator Company

British American Oil Company / Gulf Oil Canada

Brooks Elevator Company

Brown’s Bread

Brown and Barker

Brunet Monuments

Canada Cement Company

Canada West Grain Company / Dawson Grain Company / Red River Grain Company

Canadian Bank of Commerce

Canadian Engineering and Construction Company

Canadian Investor Company

Canadian Northern Railway / Canadian National Railway

Carter-Halls-Aldinger / Commonwealth Construction Company

CBC Manitoba

Central Grain Company

Chick Lumber and Fuel Company

CJOB Radio

Claydon Brothers Construction Company / Claydon Construction Limited

Commercial Grain Company

Consolidated Stationery Company

Couture and Toupin

Crosier Kilgour

Crystal City Courier

D’Arcy and Deacon

Dauphin Herald

Davidson Brothers

Daykin Scott Construction Company

Delmar Commodities

Desrochers and Company

Dominion Bank

Dominion Bridge Company

Dominion Business College / Cooper Education Institute

Dominion Elevator Company

Domo Gasoline Corporation

Drewrys Limited / Drewry’s Brewery

Ducharme and Hamilton Company

T. Eaton Company

Empire Sash and Door Company

Excelsior Coal Mining Company / Excelsior Coal Company

Export Elevator Company

Federal Grain

Fillmore Riley LLP

Flin Flon Miner

A. Forsythe and Company / Forsythe Elevator Company

Fowler and Young

Fraser and MacDonald

Frid-Lewis Company

D. W. Friesen and Sons / Friesens Corporation

F. W. Sawatzky Construction Company / FWS Group

Gaboury, Lussier, Sigurdson Architects

Gate City Brick Works

Genser Brothers Construction Company

Gilbert Plains Maple Leaf

Gladstone Age

Gods Lake Gold Mines

Grain Growers’ Grain Company / United Grain Growers / Agricore United / Viterra

Grain Growers Guide / Country Guide

Grange Stationary Company

Great Northern Railway / Brandon, Saskatchewan and Hudson’s Bay Railway / Midland Railway / Manitoba Great Northern Railway

Green Blankstein Russell and Associates

Griffin Brothers

GW Architecture

Haid Haid Donner / Marshall Haid Associates

Hamiota Echo

Ham and Motherwell Limited

Harper Construction Company

Hartney Star

Hazelton and Walin [Hazleton and Walin]

Henderson Directories Limited

E. C. Higgens and Sons

Hinds and Mitchell

Hyde Brothers

Hyland Navigation and Trading Company

Imperial Bank of Canada

Imperial Dry Goods Company

Imperial Elevator Company / Imperial Elevator and Lumber Company

The Imperial Oil Company Limited / Imperial Oil Limited

Interlake Spectator

Inter-Ocean Grain Company

Israelite Press / Universal Printers

James Drake Lumber Company

John Gunn and Sons

John Miller and Sons Limited

Kelly Brothers / Manitoba Construction Company / Kelly Brothers and Mitchell / Thomas Kelly and Sons

Kelly-Simpson Construction Company / National Construction Company

Kershaw Theatre Limited

Killbery Industries / MacDon Industries

B. F. Klassen Construction Company

LaCour & Schioler

Lake Bar Sand & Gravel Company

Lake Winnipeg Shipping and Supply Company / Lake Winnipeg Shipping Company

Lake Winnipeg Transportation Lumber and Trading Company

Lake of the Woods Milling Company

Langford and Birch

Peter Leitch Construction Company

Libling Michener and Associates / LM Architectural Group

Lindenberg Seeds

Lögberg Heimskringla

Frank R. Lount and Son

Lyall-Mitchell Company

M and M Construction / Macaw and Macdonald

MacDonald Brothers Sheet Metal and Roofing Company / Macdonald Brothers Aircraft Company / Bristol Aerospace / Magellan Aerospace

MacGregor Herald

Machray Sharpe and Company

MacLeod and Reimer / MacLeod Webster and Berman

Macleods Limited / Macleod Stedman Limited

Malcom Construction

Mall Medical Group

Manitoba Anchor Wire Fence Company

Manitoba Bridge and Iron Works

Manitoba Clinic

Manitoba Co-operator

Manitoba Elevator Commission / Manitoba Government Elevators

Manitoba Engineering Company / Wyatt Construction Company

Manitoba Engines Limited

Manitoba Liquor Control Commission / Manitoba Liquor and Lotteries Corporation

The Manitoban

Manitoba Pool Elevators / Agricore

Manitoba Power Commission / Manitoba Hydroelectric Board / Manitoba Hydro

Manitoba Sugar Company

Maple Leaf Milling Company

Marquette Reporter / Rapid City Reporter

Martin and Mitchell

Martin and Poole Construction / E. E. Poole General Contractors / Poole Construction / PCL Construction

Massey-Harris Company Limited

Master Builders Liability Insurance Company / Union Casualty Company / Union Fire & Casualty Company

R. B. McClean Elevator Company

McColl-Frontenac Oil Company / Texaco Canada Limited

McFeetors Tergesen Sedun Architects

McGaw-Dwyer Elevator Company / Dwyer Elevator Company

A. E. McKenzie Seeds

McLaughlin and Ellis

McLaughlin Elevator Company

McMillan Brothers / McMillan Grain Company

Meighen Haddad LLP

Melita New Era

Merchants Bank of Canada

Mills and Shepley / Shepley Construction Company

Miniota Herald

Mitchell Hay Company / Mitchell Hay and Grain Company / Mitchell Grain Company

Monarch Life Assurance Company

Monarch Lumber Company

Moody and Moore / MMP Architects

Morden Herald

Morden Times

Morris Herald

Moxam Construction Company

E. B. Nash Company / Nash-Carson-Naylor

National Elevator Company

National Grain Limited

National Trading Company

Neal Brothers / Neals Stores

Nelson and Foster

Nelson River Construction Company

North American Lumber and Supply Company / Citizens Lumber Company / North American Buildings Limited / North American Lumber

Northern Crown Bank

Northern Elevator Company

North Star Grain Company

North Star Oil Company / Shell Oil Canada

Northwest Navigation Company

Northwood and Chivers / Northwood Chivers and Casey

Oak Lake News

Oldfield, Kirby and Gardner / Oldfield, Kirby and Esau / The Standard Insurance

Ontario, Manitoba and Western Land Company Limited

Osler, Hammond and Nanton

Pain and Roe

Paterson Grain Company

Pearson-Burleigh Construction Company / Pearson Brothers Construction / Pearson Construction Company

Penniac Reef Gold Mines

Peterson and Fonger / Fonger Construction Company

Piggly Wiggly Canadian Limited

Pioneer Grain Company

Portage Graphic

Portage Mutual Insurance Company

Prain and Ward / Ward and Macdonald / Macdonald, Cockburn, McLeod, and McFeetors / MCM Architects

Prairie Cities Oil Company

Pratt Lindgren and Associates / Pratt Lindgren Snider Tomcej and Associates

Pratt and Ross

Progress Construction Company / Bockstael Construction Company

Province Elevator Company / Reliance Grain Company

Qualico Construction Company

Quality Cakes Limited

Radio Oil Refineries Limited

Reston Recorder

Richardson Brothers Art Gallery

Rivers Gazette

Robinson, Little and Company

Roblin Review

Roland News

Ross Brothers

Rossburn Review

Royal Bank of Canada

Roziere Construction Company

Russell Banner

Russell, Lang and Company

Safeway Stores Limited

St. James Leader

Salisbury House

Saul and Irish Construction Company / W. A. Irish and Company

Saults and Pollard / Pollard Banknote

Scottish Cooperative Wholesale Society

Searle Grain Company

Security Storage Company

Selkirk Enterprise

Selkirk Fish Company

Selkirk Record

Semmler Construction Company

Smith Agency Limited

Smith Carter and Katelnikoff / Smith Carter Architects and Engineers / Architecture49

Smith Kerry & Chace

Spencer Grain Company

Sprague Lumber Company

Springfield Leader

Standard Brick and Tile Company

Standard Elevator Company

Standard Gas Engine Works / Farm King / Buhler Industries

Standard Machine Works / Standard Aero Engine Limited / StandardAero

Stechesen Frederickson Katz

Steinbach Carillon News

Stovel Printing Company

Surety Construction Company

Sutherland Construction Company

Suzuki Brothers Construction Company

Swanson Construction Company

Taubensee Construction Company

The Pas Northern Mail / The Pas Herald

Thompson Dorfman Sweatman LLP

Topper Grain Company

Town Topics

Trident Construction Company

T&T Seeds

Union Bank of Canada

Union Grain Company

Versatile Manufacturing Limited / Versatile Farm Equipment Limited

Victoria Elevator Company

Waisman Ross and Associates / Blankstein Coop Gillmor and Hanna / Number TEN Architectural Group

Wallace and Akins

Watson and Dwyer Publishers

Western Canada Flour Mills

Western Construction Company

Western Elevator Company / Western Grain Company

Western Grocers Limited / Westfair Foods Limited

Wiley and Company / Wiley Low and Company

Winnipeg Amusements Limited

Winnipeg Clinic

Winnipeg Construction Company

Winnipeg Electric Railway Company / Winnipeg Electric Company

Winnipeg Jets

Winnipeg Paint and Glass Company

Winnipeg Roofing Company / Winnipeg Construction Company / Winnipeg Building Supplies Company / Wyatt Rentals

Winnipeg Sun

Winnipeg Telegram

Winnipeg Tribune

Young Grain Company

Zunic and Sobkowich

See Also:

MHS Resources: Manitoba Organizations

Page revised: 29 June 2025