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Patrick Shea
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Brewer.
Born in County Kerry, Ireland on 7 March 1854, son of Dennis Shea and Ellen Sullivan, he was educated in Ireland then emigrated to the United States in July 1870. He travelled all over the continent involved in railway bridge construction, including two years spent in Manitoba overseeing the water supply used in the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway line west of Oak Lake.
In March 1882, he came to Manitoba and started in the hotel business in 1884 by operating the Waverley Hotel, situated where the Canadian Pacific Railway Hotel later stood. He started in the brewing business in September 1887, in the firm of McDonagh & Shea. The plant was enlarged in 1904 and again in 1913; its output increased from 25 barrels daily to 500 barrels.
On 21 October 1884, he married Margaret Byrne of Winona, Minnesota. They had two sons: Francis Dennis “Frank” Shea (1889-1933) and Paul Ignatius Shea (1895-1917). He was a member of the Carleton Club.
He died at his Winnipeg residence, 140 Colony Street, on 8 July 1933 and was buried in the St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Cemetery.
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Manitoba College / St. Paul’s High School and College (Ellice Avenue, Winnipeg)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Shea House (115 Park Boulevard, Winnipeg)
Birth registrations [Francis Dennis Shea, Paul Ignatius Shea], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
1901 Canada census, Automated Genealogy.
A History of Manitoba: Its Resources and People by Prof. George Bryce, Toronto: The Canadian History Company, 1906.
Marriage registration [Frank Dennis Shea, Ethel Buchanan], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Obituary [Paul Ignatius Shea], Winnipeg Tribune, 7 April 1917, page 17.
Pioneers and Prominent People of Manitoba, Winnipeg: Canadian Publicity Company, 1925.
“Patrick Shea, one of west’s real pioneers, dies,” Winnipeg Free Press, 10 July 1933, page 5.
“Frank D. Shea dies suddenly in Baltimore,” Winnipeg Tribune, 20 October 1933, page 1.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 23 May 2024
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