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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
Law firm
1879
Construction materials
1905
Ice products
1882
Dental supplies
1895
Newspaper
1898
Bell’s Trailer Hitches
Machine shop
1917
Newspaper
1891
Newspaper
1899
Lumber planing mill
1872
Lumber merchant
1879
Railway & shipping
1881
Carberry News-Express (Carberry News, Norfolk Intelligencer and Advertiser, Carberry Express)
Newspaper
1889
Office supplies
1881
Newspaper
1887
Newspaper
1898
Hotel
1913
Newspaper
1892
Newspaper
1901
Insurance
1891
Monument and funeral stone
1905
Machine and vehicle dealer
1899
General mercantile
1670
Newspaper
1894
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
Newspaper
1900
Hotel
1903
Hotel
1914
Meridian Trail General Store / Douglas General Store (Argyle, RM of Rockwood)
General mercantile
1912
Newspaper
1883
Newspaper
1896
General mercantile
1785
Hotel
1886
Grain merchant
1909
Newspaper
1889
Law firm
1882
Pringle’s Men’s Wear of Boissevain (Welch’s Men’s Furnishings)
Clothing merchant
1898
Hotel
1881
Industrial Cleaning
1911
Jeweller
1882
Newspaper
1889
Newspaper
1892
Newspaper
1898
Newspaper
1893
Newspaper
1900
General store
1899
Funeral chapel
1879
Newspaper
1899
Garment manufacturers supplier
1901
Hotel
1898
Newspaper
1885
General insurance
1896
Steel products
1905
Furniture merchant
1883
Hotel
1903
Newspaper
1872
Hotel
1881
Winnipeg Supply and Fuel Company / Winnipeg Supply Service Experts
Home and building supplies
1904
Hotel
1878
Other Businesses
Alsip Sandstone Brick Company / Birds Hill Sandstone Brick Company / Wood’s Brick Company
Bready, Love and Tryon / Winnipeg Elevator Company / Canadian Elevator Company
British America Elevator Company
Canada West Grain Company / Dawson Grain Company / Red River Grain Company
Canadian Northern Railway / Canadian National Railway
Dominion Business College / Cooper Education Institute
Excelsior Coal Mining Company / Excelsior Coal Company
Grain Growers’ Grain Company / United Grain Growers / Agricore United / Viterra
Grain Growers Guide / Country Guide
Green Blankstein Russell and Associates
Hyland Navigation and Trading Company
Kelly Brothers / Thomas Kelly and Sons
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
Libling Michener and Associates / LM Architectural Group
Manitoba Anchor Wire Fence Company
Manitoba Bridge and Iron Works
Manitoba Pool Elevators / Agricore
Manitoba Power Commission / Manitoba Hydroelectric Board / Manitoba Hydro
Marquette Reporter / Rapid City Reporter
Master Builders Liability Insurance Company / Union Casualty Company / Union Fire & Casualty Company
McLaughlin & Ellis / McLaughlin Elevator Company
McMillan Brothers / McMillan Grain Company
Monarch Life Assurance Company
Oldfield, Kirby and Gardner / Oldfield, Kirby and Esau / The Standard Insurance
Piggly Wiggly Canadian Limited
Portage Mutual Insurance Company
Prain and Ward / Ward and Macdonald / Macdonald, Cockburn, McLeod, and McFeetors / MCM Architects
Pratt Lindgren and Associates / Pratt Lindgren Snider Tomcej and Associates
Province Elevator Company / Reliance Grain Company
Richardson Brothers Art Gallery
Scottish Cooperative Wholesale Society
Standard Brick and Tile Company
Versatile Manufacturing Company / Versatile Farm Equipment Company
Western Elevator Company / Western Grain Company
Western Grocers Limited / Westfair Foods Limited
Winnipeg Electric Railway Company / Winnipeg Electric Company
Page revised: 2 December 2021
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