MHS Archives: Manitoba Businesses

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Centennial Businesses

MHS Centennial Businesses have operated continuously in Manitoba for over 100 years, and have been designated by the Manitoba Historical Society. Further information on this program is available here.

Business

Type of business

Year founded

Aikins, MacAulay & Thorvaldson / MLT Aikins

Law firm

1879

Alsip’s Building Products and Services

Construction materials

1905

Arctic Ice Company / Arctic Glacier

Ice products

1882

Ash Temple

Dental supplies

1895

Baldur Gazette

Newspaper

1898

Bell’s Trailer Hitches

Machine shop

1917

Birtle Eye-Witness

Newspaper

1891

Boissevain Recorder

Newspaper

1899

Pollock Hardware

Hardware store

1922

Brown and Rutherford Company / Gillfor Distribution

Lumber planing mill

1872

Burrows Lumber Inc.

Lumber merchant

1879

Canadian Pacific Railway Company / CPKC

Railway & shipping

1881

Carberry News-Express (Carberry News, Norfolk Intelligencer and Advertiser, Carberry Express)

Newspaper

1889

Christie’s Office Plus

Office supplies

1881

Deloraine Times and Star

Newspaper

1887

Dufferin Leader / Valley Leader

Newspaper

1898

Fort Garry Hotel

Hotel

1913

Glenboro Gazette

Newspaper

1892

Grandview Exponent

Newspaper

1901

Great-West Life Assurance Company / Canada Life

Insurance

1891

Guinn & Simpson Co. Ltd.

Monument and funeral stone

1905

Hartney Machine and Motors Ltd.

Machine and vehicle dealer

1899

Hudson’s Bay Company

General mercantile

1670

Killarney Guide

Newspaper

1894

J. J. H. McLean

Musical instruments

1881

James Richardson & Sons Ltd. / Pioneer Grain Company / Richardson International

Grain merchant, oil and gas, etc.

1880

Manitoba Government Telephones / Manitoba Telephone System / MTS AllStream / Bell MTS

Telecommunications

1908

Manitou Western Canadian

Newspaper

1900

Mariaggi Hotel

Hotel

1903

Marlborough Hotel

Hotel

1914

Meridian Trail General Store / Douglas General Store (Argyle, RM of Rockwood)

General mercantile

1912

Minnedosa Tribune

Newspaper

1883

Muzeen and Blythe

Machining

1922

Neepawa Press / Neepawa Banner and Press

Newspaper

1896

North West Company

General mercantile

1785

Occidental Hotel

Hotel

1886

Parrish & Heimbecker

Grain merchant

1909

Penner International

Trucking

1923

Pilot Mound Sentinel Courier / The Hometown View

Newspaper

1889

Pitblado

Law firm

1882

Pollock Hardware

Hardware

1922

Pringle’s Men’s Wear of Boissevain (Welch’s Men’s Furnishings)

Clothing merchant

1898

Queens Hotel

Hotel

1881

Quintex Services Limited

Industrial Cleaning

1911

Reesor’s Jewellery

Jeweller

1882

Shoal Lake Star

Newspaper

1889

Souris Plaindealer

Newspaper

1892

Southern Manitoba Review (Rock Lake Review)

Newspaper

1898

Stonewall Argus & Teulon Times

Newspaper

1893

Swan Valley Star & Times

Newspaper

1900

H. P. Tergesen Store

General store

1899

Thomson Funeral Chapel

Funeral chapel

1879

Treherne Times

Newspaper

1899

Trim Services Ltd.

Garment manufacturers supplier

1901

Vendome Hotel

Hotel

1898

Virden Empire-Advance (Virden Advance)

Newspaper

1885

Wawanesa Mutual Insurance Company

General insurance

1896

Westeel

Steel products

1905

Wilson Furniture

Furniture merchant

1883

Windsor Hotel (destroyed 13 September 2023)

Hotel

1903

Winnipeg Free Press (Manitoba Free Press)

Newspaper

1872

Winnipeg Hotel

Hotel

1881

Winnipeg Supply and Fuel Company / Winnipeg Supply Service Experts

Home and building supplies

1904

Woodbine Hotel

Hotel

1878

Other Businesses

A. Akman and Son / Akman Construction

Algoma Steel Bridge Company

Allan, Lang, and Killam / Allan, Lang, Killam, and McKay / Allan, Killam, and McKay

Allied Amusements

Alsip Sandstone Brick Company / Birds Hill Sandstone Brick Company / Wood’s Brick Company

Altona Echo / Red River Valley Echo

A. S. Arnold

Atlas Elevator Company

Balmoral Brick Company

Bank of British North America

Bank of Hamilton

Bank of Montreal

Bank of Toronto / Toronto-Dominion Bank

N. Bawlf Grain Company

Beaver Elevator Company

Belmont News

Binscarth Express

Bird Woodall and Simpson Construction / Bird Construction Company

Blackwood Brothers / Blackwoods Limited

Brandon Sun

Brandon Times

Bready, Love and Tryon / Winnipeg Elevator Company / Canadian Elevator Company

Brett Manufacturing Company

British America Elevator Company

British American Oil Company / Gulf Oil Canada

Brooks Elevator Company

Brown’s Bread

Brown and Barker

Brunet Monuments

Canada Cement Company

Canada West Grain Company / Dawson Grain Company / Red River Grain Company

Canadian Bank of Commerce

Canadian Investor Company

Canadian Northern Railway / Canadian National Railway

Carter-Halls-Aldinger / Commonwealth Construction Company

CBC Manitoba

Central Grain Company

Claydon Brothers Construction Company / Claydon Construction Limited

Commercial Grain Company

Couture and Toupin

Crystal City Courier

Dauphin Herald

Davidson Brothers

Daykin Scott Construction Company

Delmar Commodities

Dominion Bank

Dominion Bridge Company

Dominion Business College / Cooper Education Institute

Dominion Elevator Company

Drewrys Limited / Drewry’s Brewery

T. Eaton Company

Excelsior Coal Mining Company / Excelsior Coal Company

Export Elevator Company

Federal Grain

Fillmore Riley LLP

Forsythe Elevator Company

Fowler and Young

Fraser and MacDonald

Frid-Lewis Company

D. W. Friesen and Sons / Friesens Corporation

F. W. Sawatzky Construction Company / FWS Group

Gaboury, Lussier, Sigurdson Architects

Gate City Brick Works

Genser Brothers Construction Company

Gilbert Plains Maple Leaf

Gladstone Age

Gods Lake Gold Mines

Grain Growers’ Grain Company / United Grain Growers / Agricore United / Viterra

Grain Growers Guide / Country Guide

Grange Stationary Company

Great Northern Railway / Brandon, Saskatchewan and Hudson’s Bay Railway / Midland Railway / Manitoba Great Northern Railway

Green Blankstein Russell and Associates

Griffin Brothers

GW Architecture

Hamiota Echo

Ham and Motherwell Limited

Harper Construction Company

Hartney Star

Hazelton and Walin

Henderson Directories Limited

Hyde Brothers

Hyland Navigation and Trading Company

Imperial Bank of Canada

Imperial Dry Goods Company

Imperial Elevator Company / Imperial Elevator and Lumber Company

The Imperial Oil Company Limited / Imperial Oil Limited

Interlake Spectator

Inter-Ocean Grain Company

Israelite Press / Universal Printers

James Drake Lumber Company

John Gunn and Sons

Kelly Brothers / Manitoba Construction Company / Kelly Brothers and Mitchell / Thomas Kelly and Sons

Kelly-Simpson Construction Company / National Construction Company

Kershaw Theatre Limited

Killbery Industries / MacDon Industries

B. F. Klassen Construction Company

LaCour & Schioler

Lake Bar Sand & Gravel Company

Lake Winnipeg Shipping and Supply Company / Lake Winnipeg Shipping Company

Lake Winnipeg Transportation Lumber and Trading Company

Lake of the Woods Milling Company

Langford and Birch

Peter Leitch Construction Company

Libling Michener and Associates / LM Architectural Group

Lögberg Heimskringla

M and M Construction / Macaw and Macdonald

MacGregor Herald

MacLeod and Reimer / MacLeod Webster and Berman

Malcom Construction

Manitoba Anchor Wire Fence Company

Manitoba Bridge and Iron Works

Manitoba Clinic

Manitoba Co-operator

Manitoba Engines Limited

Manitoba Liquor Control Commission / Manitoba Liquor and Lotteries Corporation

The Manitoban

Manitoba Pool Elevators / Agricore

Manitoba Power Commission / Manitoba Hydroelectric Board / Manitoba Hydro

Manitoba Sugar Company

Maple Leaf Milling Company

Marquette Reporter / Rapid City Reporter

Martin & Mitchell

Massey-Harris Company Limited

Master Builders Liability Insurance Company / Union Casualty Company / Union Fire & Casualty Company

R. B. McClean Elevator Company

McFeetors Tergesen Sedun Architects

McGaw-Dwyer Elevator Company / Dwyer Elevator Company

A. E. McKenzie Seeds

McLaughlin & Ellis

McLaughlin Elevator Company

McMillan Brothers / McMillan Grain Company

Meighen Haddad LLP

Melita New Era

Merchants Bank of Canada

Mills and Shepley / Shepley Construction Company

Miniota Herald

Monarch Life Assurance Company

Monarch Lumber Company

Moody and Moore / MMP Architects

Morden Herald

Morris Herald

E. B. Nash Company / Nash-Carson-Naylor

National Elevator Company

National Grain Limited

National Trading Company

Neal Brothers / Neals Stores

Nelson and Foster

Nelson River Construction Company

North American Lumber and Supply Company / Citizens Lumber Company / North American Buildings Limited / North American Lumber

Northern Crown Bank

Northern Elevator Company

North Star Grain Company

North Star Oil Company / Shell Oil Canada

Northwest Navigation Company

Northwood and Chivers / Northwood Chivers and Casey

Oak Lake News

Oldfield, Kirby and Gardner / Oldfield, Kirby and Esau / The Standard Insurance

Ontario, Manitoba and Western Land Company Limited

Osler, Hammond and Nanton

Pain and Roe

Paterson Grain Company

Pearson-Burleigh Construction Company / Pearson Brothers Construction / Pearson Construction Company

Penniac Reef Gold Mines

Piggly Wiggly Canadian Limited

Pioneer Grain Company

Poole Construction

Portage Mutual Insurance Company

Prain and Ward / Ward and Macdonald / Macdonald, Cockburn, McLeod, and McFeetors / MCM Architects

Prairie Cities Oil Company

Pratt Lindgren and Associates / Pratt Lindgren Snider Tomcej and Associates

Pratt and Ross

Province Elevator Company / Reliance Grain Company

Qualico Construction Company

Quality Cakes Limited

Reston Recorder

Richardson Brothers Art Gallery

Rivers Gazette

Robinson, Little and Company

Roblin Review

Roland News

Rossburn Review

Royal Bank of Canada

Russell Banner

Russell, Lang and Company

Safeway Stores Limited

St. James Leader

Salisbury House

Saul and Irish Construction Company / W. A. Irish and Company

Scottish Cooperative Wholesale Society

Searle Grain Company

Selkirk Enterprise

Selkirk Fish Company

Selkirk Record

Smith Agency Limited

Smith Carter and Katelnikoff / Smith Carter Architects and Engineers / Architecture49

Smith Kerry & Chace

Spencer Grain Company

Sprague Lumber Company

Springfield Leader

Standard Brick and Tile Company

Standard Elevator Company

Steinbach Carillon News

Stovel Printing Company

Surety Construction Company

Sutherland Construction Company

The Pas Northern Mail / The Pas Herald

Thompson Dorfman Sweatman LLP

Topper Grain Company

Town Topics

Union Bank of Canada

Union Grain Company

Versatile Manufacturing Company / Versatile Farm Equipment Company

Waisman Ross and Associates / Blankstein Coop Gillmor and Hanna / Number TEN Architectural Group

Wallace and Akins

Western Canada Flour Mills

Western Construction Company

Western Elevator Company / Western Grain Company

Western Grocers Limited / Westfair Foods Limited

Wiley and Company / Wiley Low and Company

Winnipeg Amusements Limited

Winnipeg Clinic

Winnipeg Construction Company

Winnipeg Electric Railway Company / Winnipeg Electric Company

Winnipeg Enterprises Corporation

Winnipeg Paint and Glass Company

Winnipeg Sun

Winnipeg Telegram

Winnipeg Tribune

Young Grain Company

Zunic and Sobkowich

See Also:

MHS Resources: Manitoba Organizations

Page revised: 23 March 2024