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Theodore Kipp
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Engineer.
Born at Peoria, Illinois in 1880, he was educated at public school and Bradley Polytechnic. He came to Canada in 1908 and was chief engineer successively for the Tillson Milling Company at Tillsonburg, Ontario, Robin Hood Mills Limited, and for a number of years was Chief Engineer for the Ogilvie Flour Mills Company.
In 1913, he organized the Kipp-Kelly Company at Winnipeg in partnership with George Henry Kelly where he was Vice-President and Managing Director. The firm built several flour and cereal mills, and installed electric lighting and pumping plants, across western Canada. From around 1918 to 1928, he also worked as a consulting engineer in the firm of Canadian Engineering and Construction Company, in partnership with John Godfrey Sullivan and William Gregory Chace.
He was also President of the Winnipeg Service Company, Vice-President of the Canadian Engineering and Construction Company, Vice-President of the Sullivan, Kipp and Chace Company, and Director of the Alberta Wood Preserving Company, Northern Wood Preserver Limited, Martin Paper Products, Manitoba Sugar Company, God’s Lake Gold Mines Limited, and White Eagle Silver Mines Limited, and Chairman of Industrial Development Board of Manitoba.
He and wife Jessie McKay Ross (1889-1971) had three children: Theodore Ross Kipp (1910-1973), Robert Angus Kipp (1912-?), and Maria Cecelia Kipp (?-?, wife of Robert George Winram and ? McGowan). At the time of his death, he lived at 1030 Wellington Crescent. He was a member of the Manitoba Club, St. Charles Country Club, Royal Lake of the Woods Yacht Club, Kam Club (Fort William), and Engineers Club (Montreal). He was an active volunteer for the Navy League of Canada (Manitoba Branch) and served as its Secretary for several years.
He died at the Winnipeg General Hospital on 29 May 1941 and was buried in the Elmwood Cemetery.
See also:
Manitoba Business: Canadian Engineering and Construction Company
Birth registration [Birth Angus Kipp], Saskatchewan Vital Statistics.
“Men of Winnipeg in Diamond Jubilee Sketches,” Winnipeg Free Press, December 1934. [Winnipeg Elite Study, G. Friesen Fonds, Mss 154, Box 15, File 8, University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections]
“Theodore Kipp dies Thursday at age of 61,” Winnipeg Free Press, 29 May 1941, page 8.
“Leading engineer, industrialist, dies,” Winnipeg Tribune, 29 May 1941, page 15.
Marriage registration [Maria Cecelia Kipp, Robert George Winram], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Obituary [Jessie McKay Ross Kipp], Winnipeg Free Press, 21 May 1971, page 12.
Obituary [Theodore Ross Kipp], Winnipeg Free Press, 15 December 1973, page 42.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 29 December 2024
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