Manitoba Business: Maple Leaf Milling Company

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The Maple Leaf Milling Company was incorporated via Letters Patent under the Ontario Companies Act on 16 March 1910 to take over the assets of two Ontario-based firms: Hedley Shaw Milling Company and Maple Leaf Flour Mills Company. It was founded by grain merchants Hedley Shaw, Charles Walter Band, John Carrick, and Charles Shaw Band, broker Cawthra Mulock, manager Charles Wurtele, and accountant Silas Huntington Foster, all of Ontario. The company had an initial capital stock of 5 million and maintained corporate head office in Toronto. Within Manitoba, it obtained an extra-provincial corporation license on 30 May 1910.

Its country elevators were sold to Federal Grain in 1929.

Presidents

Period	President
1910-1911	Cawthra Mulock
1911-1921	Douglas Colin Cameron (1854-1921)
1922-1930	James Stewart (1881-1941)
1930-1934	Charles Walter Band
1934-1935	Charles A. Dunning
1935-1936	Everett Bristol
1936-1949	D. C. MacLachlan

Country Elevators

Location	Rail	Opened	Closed	Capacity (bushels)	Comments
Alexander	CPR	1912	1923	30,000
Altona	CPR	1920	1929	25,000	Sold to Federal Grain (1929)
Arrow River	CPR	1912	1929	30,000	Sold to Federal Grain (1929)
Birtle	CPR	1912	1929	30,000	Sold to Federal Grain (1929)
Brandon	CPR	1912	1929	120,000	Sold to Federal Grain (1929)
Clearwater	CPR	1912	1929	30,000	Sold to Federal Grain (1929)
Crandall	CPR	1912	1929	35,000	Sold to Federal Grain (1929)
Foxwarren	CPR	1912	1929	40,000	Sold to Federal Grain (1929)
Goodlands	CPR	1912	1929	35,000	Sold to Federal Grain (1929)
Gretna	CPR	1919	1929	30,000	Sold to Federal Grain (1929)
Horndean	CPR	1920	1927	30,000
Kemnay	CPR	1924	1924	40,000
Manitou	CPR	1912	1913	40,000
Miniota	CPR	1910	1929	30,000	Sold to Federal Grain (1929)
Naples	CPR	1912	1913	40,000
Plum Coulee	CPR	1912	1929	30,000	Sold to Federal Grain (1929)
Purves	CPR	1910	1929	40,000	Sold to Federal Grain (1929)
Rosenfeld	CPR	1919	1929	30,000	Sold to Federal Grain (1929)
Sewell	CPR	1919	1929	30,000	Sold to Federal Grain (1929)
Somerset	CNR	1912	1919	30,000

Sources:

“Big milling re-organization,” Winnipeg Tribune, 17 June 1910, page 6.

“Maple Leaf Milling makes dividend cut,” Manitoba Free Press, 23 June 1922, page 14.

“James Stewart approves cut,” Winnipeg Tribune, 11 May 1923, page 2.

“Dunning heads Maple Leaf Co.,” Winnipeg Tribune, 16 October 1934, page 17.

“Everett Bristol, K.C., is Maple Leaf Milling head,” Winnipeg Tribune, 26 November 1935, page 15.

“D. C. MacLachlan to become president of Maple Leaf Milling,” Winnipeg Tribune, 15 October 1936, page 16.

“Maple Leaf Flour Mills head sees trade problem,” Winnipeg Tribune, 16 December 1949, page 27.

Corporate Security registered documents (ATG 0089), A30 - Maple Leaf Milling Company Limited, GR12576, Archives of Manitoba.

Companies Office corporation documents (CCA 0059), 253M - Maple Leaf Milling Company Limited, GR6427, Archives of Manitoba.

We thank Nathan Kramer for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 26 August 2020