This Winnipeg-based construction company, with F. S. Thoms as manager, was active in the late 1900s and early 1910s but appears to have folded around 1916 when it sold its warehouse building on Minto Street.
Some of its construction work in Manitoba included:
Building
Location
Year
Status
Rooming House
Dagmar Street, Winnipeg
1909
Demolished (?)
52 Adelaide Street, Winnipeg
1910
465 Beresford Avenue, Winnipeg
1911
Molson Bank Building
377 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg
1911
Demolished (?)
Transcona Theatre / Apollo Theatre
109 Regent Avenue West, Winnipeg
1911-1912
Demolished (July 1969)
52 Fawcett Avenue, Winnipeg
1912
Winnipeg General Hospital (addition)
Bannatyne Avenue, Winnipeg
1912
See also:
Manitoba Business: Winnipeg Roofing Company / Winnipeg Construction Company / Winnipeg Building Supplies Company / Wyatt Rentals
“Transcona notes,” Manitoba Free Press, 6 July 1911, page 11.
“Building permits for 9 months are record,” Winnipeg Tribune, 1 October 1912, page 11.
“New treasurer,” Manitoba Free Press, 14 April 1916, page 33.
“Transcona theatre to be demolished,” Winnipeg Tribune, 8 July 1969, page 4.
Douglas & Company Building, 52 Adelaide Street by Murray Peterson, Winnipeg Historical Buildings & Resources Committee, May 2019.
We thank Glen Toews for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough and Jordan Makichuk.
Page revised: 5 July 2024
