Manufacturer, contractor.
Born at Streetsville, Ontario on 8 October 1874, son of William Steen and Ann Miller, he left school at the age of 16 to work on the family farm. He came to Manitoba in 1894 and worked for three years as a farm hand and at a lumberyard. In 1897 he returned to Ontario and stayed there for ten years, learning the carpenter’s trade at Toronto. He moved to Dauphin in 1907 and opened the sash and door manufacturing firm of Hafenbrack & Steen.
On 24 December 1901, he married Ruth Emma Scott (1877-1964) at Toronto, Ontario and they had four children. He was a member of the Masons, Knights of Pythias, Canadian Order of Foresters, and Presbyterian Church. In 1946, he moved to Vancouver, British Columbia. He died there on 16 August 1959 and was buried in the Ocean View Burial Park at Burnaby, BC.
The Story of Manitoba by F. H. Schofield, Winnipeg: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1913.
Death registrations [Charles Breckenridge Steen, Ruth Emma Steen], British Columbia Vital Statistics.
Obituary, The Province, 20 August 1959, page 23.
Obituary [Emma Scott Steen], Vancouver Sun, 10 February 1964, page 30.
We thank Darryl Toews for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 19 April 2024
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