Established in 1879, Aikins, MacAulay & Thorvaldson LLP was the oldest and largest law firm in Manitoba. Its founding lawyer was J. A. M. Aikins, who was later joined first by Albert Monkman, and later by William H. Culver and Charles E. Hamilton. An MHS Centennial Business Award was presented to the firm in 2004 by Ken A. Zealand.
On 1 January 2017, Aikins, MacAulay & Thorvaldson merged with the Saskatchewan-based law firm of MacPherson Leslie & Tyerman to form the firm MLT Aikins.
Member
Period
Gordon Harold Aikins (1887-1954)
1910-1954
James Albert Manning Aikins (1851-1929)
1879-1929
Frank Dennison Allen (1927-1998)
1962-1976
Alfred Joseph Andrews (1865-1950)
1943-1950
Fletcher S. Andrews (1869-1949)
1943-1949
Robert B. Baillie
1928-1929
H. D. Barbour
1922-1926
Francis Martin “Frank” Bastin (1896-1986)
1946-1959
Allan B. Bell
1913-1919
B. G. Bergh
1973-1975
Allan Shipley Bond (1879-1959)
1907-1908
Derek A. Booth
1966-1975
David A. Bowles
1969-1981
Richard L. Bricker
1970-1979
Bidwell W. Bridgman
1916-1920
Edward J. Brown
1965-1966
John C. Brown
1963-1968
Oliver E. Bryan
1943-1946
Henry Arnold Burbidge (1874-?)
1905-1906
Andrew Lorne Campbell (1920-2014)
1964-2005
Colin H. Campbell (1859-1914)
1882
Charles L. Chappell
1979-?
Ephraim H. Coleman
1922-1926
John Champion Collinson (1878-1934)
1929-1930
Gordon W. Cormack
1962-1966
James Bowes Coyne (1878-1965)
1905-1912
Lawrence Ramsay “Larry” Crane (1935-2020)
1968-2012
William Henry Culver (1850-1900)
1880-1900
Thomas Dickey Cumberland (1853-1939)
1882-1883
Robert E. Curran
1929-1942
Roland B. F. Dias
1969-?
Robert Brian Dickson (1916-1998)
1945-1963
William Taylor Dorward (1904-1975)
1931-1933
Arni G. Eggertson
1939-1966
George Elsey
1933-1936, 1954-1962
S. Jane Evans
1977-?
Cy M. Fien
1978-1980
Randolph Murray Fisher (1886-1965)
1915-1926
Raymond H. G. Flett
1968-?
Joseph Patrick Foley (1878-1928)
1908-1918
James E. Foran (1937-2014)
1962-2008
Knox B. Foster (1939-2003)
1964-2003
Martin H. Freedman
1969-2002, 2012-?
Charles Percy Fullerton (1870-1938)
1906-1917
W. S. Gange
1979-?
Dennis J. Gibbs
1964-?
W. Gordon Gunn
1926-1928
Graeme Thomson Haig (1923-1993)
1949-1950
Charles Edward Hamilton (1844-?)
1881-1888
Roger James Hansell (1929-2019)
1954-2008
Reginald V. Harris
1908
Bonnie M. Helper
1972-1974
David G. Hill
1975-?
Thomas W. B. Hinch
1928-1945, 1947-1981
John D. Holland
1970-1971
John G. Hossack
1896-1900
Jabez Bowen Hugg (1872-?)
1904-1906
William Frederick Hull (1866-?)
1892-1901
Theodore Alexander Hunt (1871-1934)
1903-1904
Alan J. Irving
1966-1982
D. Rae Jackson
1946-1961
Sam W. Jackson
1881-1882
Thomas E. D. Jackson
1943-1945
Ian L. Jessiman
1960-1976
Diane E. Jones
1979-?
Patrick D. Kennedy
1948
Cyril G. Labman
1968-?
Francis Bastin “Frank” Lamont (1933-1998)
1960-1963
John Salmon Lamont (1925-2016)
1952-?
Gordon C. Lindsay
1913-1914
Edwin Loftus (1868-1948)
1901-1906, 1912-1948
William H. Long
1884-1889
James A. Loughead
1882-1883
Colin R. MacArthur
1969-?
John Alexander MacAulay (1892-1978)
1919-1978
J. Blair MacAulay
1960-1975
Elliott B. MacDonald
1968-?
William Steward Arnold Martin (1924-1996)
1968-1996
Arthur Valentine Mauro (1927-2023)
1953-1969
Peter McCarthy
1882-1886
Deborah J. McCawley
1976-1978
R. Daniel McClelland
1973-1974
Alexander V. McCleneghan
1884-1899
Donald Cameron McGavin (1914-1998)
1940-1967
G. D. McKay
1926-1927
Alasdair J. McKichan
1958-1959
Alexander McLeod
1888-1891
Glenn W. McPherson
1935-1938
Roland Fairbairn McWilliams (1874-1957)
1910-1913
John R. E. Medland
1956-1957
Aristotle John “Telly” Mercury (1934-2010)
1964-2010
Leon N. Mercury
1969-?
Michael J. Mercury
1959-?
George G. Mills
1882-1887
George Dyett Minty (1869-1911)
1894-1901
Andrew Allison “Andy” Moffat (1895-1964)
1953-1964
Albert Monkman (1850-1918)
1879-1881
Marc M. Monnin
1978-?
Elizabeth F. Morrison
1945-1947
Peter Scott Morse (1927-2018)
1952-1975
W. Scott Neal
1939-1942
Charles K. Newcombe
1913-1918
Douglas Nicholson
1916-1917
E. Bruce Parker
1977-?
Gerald D. Parkinson
1972-?
Donald C. Paterson
1971-1978
George Patterson (1846-1925)
1889-1892
John Pearson
1962-1968
Herbert Marquis Pickard (1916-2010)
1940-1954
Isaac Pitblado (1867-1964)
1889-1890, 1900-1904
Jules Preudhomme (1877-?)
1906-1910
Hugh Amos Robson (1871-1945)
1899-1910
Daryl J. Rosin
1979-?
Marshall E. Rothstein
1966-?
Gerald Stewart Rutherford (1890-1987)
1919-1926
J. Timothy Samson
1967-?
G. W. Saunders
1948-1970
Calvin G. Scarfe
1965-1968
J. G. Scott
1975
W. A. Scott
1927-1928
Robert Gordon Smellie (1923-2005)
1967-?
Fritz W. S. Sparling (1877-1947)
1900-1906
Kristjan F. Stefanson
1970-1979
James Herbert Stitt (1891-1958)
1925-1928
Frances M. Stratham
1973-?
Alexander John Stringer (1903-1969)
1943-1959
Orval Wood Struthers (1895-1980)
1942-1970
Bruce W. Thompson
1902-1903
Donald Alexander Thompson (1904-1992)
1925-1953
Gunnar Solmunder Thorvaldson (1901-1969)
1925-1969
Andrew Crawford “Andy” Tough (1921-2016)
1969-1998
George Eric Tritschler (1901-1993)
1926-1952
Frederick James Turner (1896-1982)
1942-1945
David L. Voechting
1978-?
Shael H. Wilder
1979-?
Esten Kenneth Williams (1889-1970)
1919-1940
Rowland K. Williams
1949-1962
Richard Trimble Willis (1944-1989)
1970-1980
Richard L. Yaffe
1979-?
See also:
A Proud Heritage: The First Hundred Years of Aikins, MacAulay and Thorvaldson by Lee Gibson, Winnipeg: Aikins, MacAulay & Thorvaldson, 1979.
“Largest law firms in Manitoba, Saskatchewan to merge,” CBC News, 21 September 2016.
We thank Dabota Fashola for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 7 August 2023
