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Albert Edward Lewis
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Businessman.
Born at Ancaster, Ontario on 19 September 1860, son of William and Anna Marie Lewis, he was educated at Cookstown, Ontario. He worked with oil merchants McColl Brothers at Toronto (1885-1887), a traveller with the Royal Oil Company at Toronto (1887-1897) before establishing the Union Petroleum Company in 1897. He moved to Winnipeg in 1900 and, in 1905, established the Prairie City Oil Company with himself as its Vice-President and Manager. He became President in 1925 and served until retirement in 1930.
On 29 July 1904, he married Collina Isabella A. Spence (1868-1911) at Toronto and they had a son and a daughter. Around 1915, the family lived at 274 Yale Avenue, Winnipeg. He was a member of the Elmhurst Golf Club.
He died at his summer home at Victoria Beach on 11 July 1932 and was buried in the Brookside Cemetery.
Who's Who and Why, Volumes 6 and 7, 1915-1916, page 674.
“Albert E. Lewis, pioneer in oil business, dead,” Winnipeg Free Press, 12 July 1932, page 7.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 30 October 2021
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