Historic Sites of Manitoba: Dominion Post Office Building (201 Regent Avenue West, Winnipeg)

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Postmasters | Photos & Coordinates | Sources

This one-storey brick building on Regent Avenue West in the Transcona area of Winnipeg was built between 1929 and 1930 as the Transcona postal branch. Between 1958 and 1959, a one-storey addition of bricks and concrete blocks was constructed on its west side by the Wyatt Construction Company at a cost of about $55,300.

Postmasters

Period	Postmasters
1910-1912	Thomas F. Shannon
1912-1916	William McFarlane (1854-1916)
1917-1925	Edith Maria McFarlane (1872-?)
1925-1930	Nathaniel Frederick Whittalow
1930-1949	Thomas Henry “Tom” Shakespeare (1883-1965)
1949	Miss Mary Lilith Ruth Shakespeare (1916-2003)
1950-1951	Peter Noel Glacken

Photos & Coordinates

Dominion Post Office Building in the Transcona area of Winnipeg (no date) Source: Rob McInnes Former Dominion Post Office Building in the Transcona area of Winnipeg (May 2018) Source: George Penner Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.89532, W97.00596 denoted by symbol on the map above

See also:

Manitoba Business: Manitoba Engineering Company / Wyatt Construction Company

Sources:

“Contract let for post office addition,” Winnipeg Free Press, 24 November 1958, page 7.

Transcona Post Office, 201 Regent Avenue West by Murray Peterson, Peterson Projects, December 2009.

Post Offices and Postmasters, Library and Archives Canada.

We thank Nathan Kramer, Rob McInnes, and Glen Toews for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by George Penner and Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 11 September 2024

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