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This is a list of Manitoba organizations researched by the Manitoba Historical Society.
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
Pollock Hardware
Hardware store
1922
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
Machining
1922
Newspaper
1896
General mercantile
1785
Hotel
1886
Grain merchant
1909
Penner International
Trucking
1923
Newspaper
1889
Law firm
1882
Pollock Hardware
Hardware
1922
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
Windsor Hotel (destroyed 13 September 2023)
Hotel
1903
Newspaper
1872
Hotel
1881
Winnipeg Supply and Fuel Company / Winnipeg Supply Service Experts
Home and building supplies
1904
Hotel
1878
A. Akman and Son / Akman Construction
Allan, Lang, and Killam / Allan, Lang, Killam, and McKay / Allan, Killam, and McKay
Alsip Sandstone Brick Company / Birds Hill Sandstone Brick Company / Wood’s Brick Company
Altona Echo / Red River Valley Echo
Bank of Toronto / Toronto-Dominion Bank
Benjaminson Construction Company
Bird Woodall and Simpson Construction / Bird Construction Company
Blackburn and Mills Grain Company / Blackburn Mills and Graham
Blackwood Brothers / Blackwoods Limited
Bready, Love and Tryon / Winnipeg Elevator Company / Canadian Elevator Company
British America Elevator Company
British American Oil Company / Gulf Oil Canada
Canada West Grain Company / Dawson Grain Company / Red River Grain Company
Canadian Northern Railway / Canadian National Railway
Carter-Halls-Aldinger / Commonwealth Construction Company
Claydon Brothers Construction Company / Claydon Construction Limited
Consolidated Stationery Company
Daykin Scott Construction Company
Dominion Business College / Cooper Education Institute
Drewrys Limited / Drewry’s Brewery
Excelsior Coal Mining Company / Excelsior Coal Company
Fillmore Riley LLP (1883)
A. Forsythe and Company / Forsythe Elevator Company
D. W. Friesen and Sons / Friesens Corporation
F. W. Sawatzky Construction Company / FWS Group
Gaboury, Lussier, Sigurdson Architects
Genser Brothers Construction Company
Grain Growers’ Grain Company / United Grain Growers / Agricore United / Viterra
Grain Growers Guide / Country Guide
Green Blankstein Russell and Associates
Haid Haid Donner / Marshall Haid Associates
Hazelton and Walin [Hazleton and Walin]
Hyland Navigation and Trading Company
Imperial Elevator Company / Imperial Elevator and Lumber Company
The Imperial Oil Company Limited / Imperial Oil Limited
Israelite Press / Universal Printers
Kelly Brothers / Manitoba Construction Company / Kelly Brothers and Mitchell / Thomas Kelly and Sons
Kelly-Simpson Construction Company / National Construction Company
Killbery Industries / MacDon Industries
B. F. Klassen Construction Company
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
Peter Leitch Construction Company
Libling Michener and Associates / LM Architectural Group
M and M Construction / Macaw and Macdonald
MacLeod and Reimer / MacLeod Webster and Berman
Macleods Limited / Macleod Stedman Limited
Manitoba Anchor Wire Fence Company
Manitoba Bridge and Iron Works
Manitoba Elevator Commission / Manitoba Government Elevators
Manitoba Engineering Company / Wyatt Construction Company
Manitoba Liquor Control Commission / Manitoba Liquor and Lotteries Corporation
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
R. B. McClean Elevator Company
McColl-Frontenac Oil Company / Texaco Canada Limited
McFeetors Tergesen Sedun Architects
McGaw-Dwyer Elevator Company / Dwyer Elevator Company
McMillan Brothers / McMillan Grain Company
Mills and Shepley / Shepley Construction Company
Mitchell Hay Company / Mitchell Hay and Grain Company / Mitchell Grain Company
Monarch Life Assurance Company
Moody and Moore / MMP Architects
E. B. Nash Company / Nash-Carson-Naylor
Nelson River Construction Company
North Star Oil Company / Shell Oil Canada
Northwood and Chivers / Northwood Chivers and Casey
Oldfield, Kirby and Gardner / Oldfield, Kirby and Esau / The Standard Insurance
Ontario, Manitoba and Western Land Company Limited
Pearson-Burleigh Construction Company / Pearson Brothers Construction / Pearson Construction Company
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
Progress Construction Company / Bockstael Construction Company
Province Elevator Company / Reliance Grain Company
Richardson Brothers Art Gallery
Saul and Irish Construction Company / W. A. Irish and Company
Saults and Pollard / Pollard Banknote
Scottish Cooperative Wholesale Society
Smith Carter and Katelnikoff / Smith Carter Architects and Engineers / Architecture49
Standard Brick and Tile Company
Sutherland Construction Company
Suzuki Brothers Construction Company
Taubensee Construction Company
The Pas Northern Mail / The Pas Herald
Versatile Manufacturing Limited / Versatile Farm Equipment Limited
Waisman Ross and Associates / Blankstein Coop Gillmor and Hanna / Number TEN Architectural Group
Western Elevator Company / Western Grain Company
Western Grocers Limited / Westfair Foods Limited
Wiley and Company / Wiley Low and Company
Winnipeg Electric Railway Company / Winnipeg Electric Company
MHS Resources: Manitoba Organizations
Page revised: 2 December 2024