This Winnipeg-based construction company was known originally as the Manitoba Engineering Company. In 1949, its name was changed to the Wyatt Construction Company, with James R. Paget as President and Robert Nicholas Wyatt as Secretary-Treasurer.
Some of its construction work in Manitoba included:
Building
Location
Year
Status
719 Main Street, Birtle, Municipality of Prairie View
1938-1939
No. 3 Bombing and Guneral School (repairs to Officers Mess)
Macdonald, RM of Portage la Prairie
1943
Demolished (?)
No. 3 Bombing and Guneral School (Chapel)
Macdonald, RM of Portage la Prairie
1943
Demolished (?)
No. 3 Bombing and Guneral School (addition to Hospital)
Macdonald, RM of Portage la Prairie
1944
Demolished (?)
No. 7 Bombing and Gunnery School (Chapel)
Paulson, RM of Dauphin
1943
Demolished (?)
No. 10 Service Flying Training School (Chapel)
RM of Dauphin
1943
Demolished (?)
Birtle Hospital
Birtle
1954
Virden Federal Building (addition and alteration)
Virden
1954
Manitoba Motor League Building
175 Carlton Street, Winnipeg
1956
Demolished (?)
Manitoba Home for Mental Defectives (addition)
3rd Street NE, Portage la Prairie
1956-1957
Churchill High School (addition)
510 Hay Street, Winnipeg
1958
Dominion Post Office Building (addition)
201 Regent Avenue West, Winnipeg
1958-1959
604 St. Mary's Road, Winnipeg
1959-1960
Carling Breweries (Shipping and Storage Building)
Winnipeg
1960-1961
Demolished (?)
See also:
Memorable Manitobans: Robert Nicholas Wyatt (1877-1954)
“Three air schools to get new chapels,” Winnipeg Free Press, 17 August 1943, page 5.
“Contract is awarded to Winnipeg company,” Winnipeg Free Press, 22 January 1944, page 2.
“Announcing our change of name,” Winnipeg Tribune, 10 September 1949, page 12.
“$75,660 contract granted city firm [Virden Federal Building],” Winnipeg Free Press, 4 June 1954, page 5.
“Birtle Hospital,” Winnipeg Free Press, 9 November 1954, page 31.
“New location [Manitoba Motor League Building],” Winnipeg Free Press, 23 June 1956, page 7.
“Enlarge home for defectives at Portage,” Winnipeg Free Press, 7 December 1956, page 14.
“Wyatt gets job for addition to Churchill High,” Winnipeg Free Press, 6 February 1958, page 7.
“Contract awarded for new brewery building,” Winnipeg Free Press, 26 July 1960, page 8.
Henderson’s Winnipeg and Brandon Directories, Henderson Directories Limited, Peel’s Prairie Provinces, University of Alberta Libraries.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough and Jordan Makichuk.
Page revised: 11 September 2024
