This Winnipeg-based construction firm was established by Frank Reade Lount, assisted in later years by his son William Dangerfield “Bill” Lount. In 1951, the company pioneered the use of the lift-slab construction method in Canada.
Some of its building works in Manitoba included:
Building
Location
Year
Status
2015 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg
1928
Demolished (?)
137 Handsart Boulevard, Winnipeg
1932
Bon Accord Block (demolition of four floors)
635-645 Main Street / 185 Logan Avenue, Winnipeg
1935
425 St. Mary Avenue, Winnipeg
1942
221 Park Boulevard, Winnipeg
1949
51 Roslyn Road, Winnipeg
1951-1952
Demolished (2023)
Silver Heights Apartments
2255 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg
1952-1953
Winnipeg General Hospital Nurses’ Residence
765 Notre Dame Avenue, Winnipeg
1953-1954
Silver Heights Shopping Centre
2281-2285 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg
1953-1954
North Star Service Station
2001 Portage Avenue, Manitoba
1954
Demolished (?)
Park Towers
2300 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg
1955-1956
Stafford Foods Plant
845 King Edward Street, Winnipeg
1957
St. James Kiwanis Courts
90 Sinawik Bay, Winnipeg
1957-1958
Hilden House
155 Traill Avenue, Winnipeg
1958
Park Terrace
2350 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg
1958-1959
Children’s Aid Building
Portage la Prairie
1959-1960
Winnipeg General Hospital Interns’ Residence
720 McDermot Avenue, Winnipeg
1959-1960
St. James Place
2345 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg
1961
Birchwood Terrace
2440 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg
1962-1963
Chateau Lanes
1145 Nairn Avenue, Winnipeg
1963
MacKinnon House
969 Cambridge Street, Winnipeg
1963-1964
See also:
Memorable Manitobans: Frank Reade Lount (1890-1976)
Memorable Manitobans: William Dangerfield “Bill” Lount (1914-1997)
Memorable Manitobans: Augustus Burton “Burt” Stovel (1921-1977)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Silver Heights Gates (Mount Royal Road, Winnipeg)
Municipality of St. James Building Permit 5560/1952 [Silver Heights Apartments], Box A1261, City of Winnipeg Archives.
“Work started on $550,000 suite block [Silver Heights Apartments],” Winnipeg Free Press, 29 May 1952, page 1.
Photograph and caption [Winnipeg General Hospital Nurses’ Residence], Winnipeg Free Press, 19 October 1953, page 8.
Municipality of St. James Building Permit 6407/1953 [Silver Heights Shopping Centre], Box A1261, City of Winnipeg Archives.
“Silver Heights Shopping Centre,” Winnipeg Free Press, 25 May 1954, page 29.
“Apartment blocks due for St. James,” Winnipeg Free Press, 12 June 1954, page 42.
“No end ot number of new homes,” Winnipeg Free Press, 9 April 1955, page 19.
“City's biggest block going up in suburb,” Winnipeg Free Press, 29 July 1955, page 27.
“1,000 citizens in apartments [Silver Heights Towers / Park Towers],” Winnipeg Free Press, 21 April 1956, page 52.
“Congratulations ... Stafford Foods Limited,” Winnipeg Free Press, 9 September 1957, page 13.
“Birchwood Heights,” Winnipeg Free Press, 11 December 1957, page 38.
“$456,000 contract let for St. James rental project,” Winnipeg Free Press, 27 December 1957, page 29.
Municipality of St. James Building Permit 9790/1958 [Park Terrace], Box A1261, City of Winnipeg Archives.
Municipality of St. James Building Permit 10016/1958 [Hilden House], Box A1261, City of Winnipeg Archives.
“New CAS building planned in Portage,” Winnipeg Tribune, 15 October 1959, page 21.
“New 41-suite block for married interns [Winnipeg General Hospital Interns’ Residence],” Winnipeg Free Press, 27 October 1959, page 3.
“Giant realty sale,” Winnipeg Free Press, 27 October 1960, page 25.
“Business world [Birchwood Terrace],” Winnipeg Tribune, 2 August 1962, page 57.
“Low rent housing to open [MacKinnon House],” Winnipeg Free Press, 4 July 1964, page 3.
Saigon Apartments, Winnipeg Architecture Foundation.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 12 July 2024
