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MHS Centennial Business: Manitoba Government Telephones / Manitoba Telephone System / MTS Allstream / BellMTS

On 5 April 2008, an MHS Centennial Business Award was presented to MTS Chief Executive Officer Pierre Blouin, at the Third Annual Manitoba Business Adventurers Banquet, by Manitoba Lieutenant-Governor John Harvard, MHS President J. M. Bumsted, and Asper School of Business Dean Glenn Feltham.

Commissioners / Chairmen

Period	Commissioner / Chairman
1908-1912	Francis Charles Paterson (1865-?)
1912-1921	G. A. Watson
1921-1945	John Edmond Lowry (1880-1951)
1945-1954	Peter Millar
1954-1974	James Ferguson “Jim” Mills (1909-1996)
1974-1980	Gordon W. Holland
1980-1981	W. John A. Bulman
1981-1985	Saul Alecs Miller (1917-1993)
1985-1987	Jean W. Edmonds
1987-1989	Paul G. Thomas
1989-?	Thomas E. “Tom” Stefanson

Superintendents

Period	Superintendent
?-1948	Henry “Harry” Coddington (1883-1965)

Chief Engineers

Period	Chief Engineer
1912-1939	Harold Edward Brockwell (1870-1945)
1939-1945	Ernest Henry Williams (c1879-1965)
1945-1952	James Ferguson “Jim” Mills (1909-1996)
1952-1956	?
1956-1972	Gilbert Alexander Muir (1912-1973)

See also:

A History of the Telephone in Manitoba by Gilbert A. Muir
MHS Transactions, Series 3, 1964-1965 Season

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Garry Telephone Exchange Building (474 Hargrave Street, Winnipeg)

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Manitoba Telephone System Building (166 Portage Avenue East, Winnipeg)

Historic Sites of Manitoba: St. John’s Telephone Exchange Building (405 Burrows Avenue, Winnipeg)

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Sherbrook Telephone Exchange Building (297 Sherbrook Street, Winnipeg)

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Telecommunications Building #1 (Municipality of Oakland-Wawanesa)

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Telecommunications Building #2 (RM of Victoria)

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Telecommunications Building #3 (RM of Grey)

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Brandon General Museum and Archives (19 Ninth Street, Brandon)

Sources:

People of Service: A Brief History of the Manitoba Telephone System, 3rd edition by Robert H. Drain for MTS Corporate Communications, Winnipeg, 1991. [Manitoba Legislative Library]

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 5 July 2017