Founded at Winnipeg in August 1906, its organizers included numerous prominent local businessman, including Hugh Armstrong, Nicholas Bawlf, George F. Carruthers, James T. Gordon, Edwin S. Popham, Daniel E. Sprague, Edmund L. Taylor, and William Whyte, along with ones at Belleville (Ontario), Calgary, Montreal, Quebec, Regina, Toronto, and Wallaceburg (Ontario). Through the years, the company occupied offices in the Boyd Building and Inglis Building. In 1960, it constructed a grand office building on Broadway in Winnipeg, occupying it through a merger with North American Life Assurance Company in the 1980s.
Period
Chairman
1968-1969
William Andrew Johnston (1896-1969)
1969-1979
Thomas Bruce Ross (1904-2001)
Period
President
1906-?
D. A. Gordon
1910-?
James Thomas Gordon (1858-1919)
?-1922
?
1922-1927
William A. Matheson (1859-1939)
1927-1934
?
1934-1942
Edgar Jordan Tarr (1881-1950)
1942-1951
?
1951-1963
John Elmer Woods (1892-1980)
Period
Vice-President
1906-?
Robert Rogers (1864-1936)
?-1910
?
1910-1911
Nicholas Bawlf (1849-1914)
1911-1924
?
1924-1927
Frank W. Adams (1861-1935)
1927-1929
?
1929-?
John William Willoughby Stewart (1868-1936)
?-1947
?
1947-?
John Elmer Woods (1892-1980)
?-1950
?
1950-1963
Charles Gordon Smith (1902-1990)
Period
General Manager
1906
T. Marshall Ostrom
1906-1929
John William Willoughby Stewart (1868-1936)
1929-1934
J. A. Macfarlane
1934-1936
?
1936-1953
Gordon C. Cumming
1953-1963
?
1963-?
Darrell Laird
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Monarch Life Building / Workers Compensation Building (333 Broadway, Winnipeg)
“Monarch Life Assurance Co. – Important announcement – a western institution established in Winnipeg,” Winnipeg Tribune, 18 August 1906, page 7.
“Ostrom has resigned,” Winnipeg Tribune, 26 October 1906, page 2.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 8 May 2017
