Manitoba Business: Meighen Haddad LLP

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The Brandon-based law firm of Meighen Haddad LLP is Manitoba’s largest outside of Winnipeg, with branch offices throughout southwestern Manitoba. It traces its origins to 1882.

Chronology

Period	Firm Name
1882-1897	Daly & Coldwell
1897-1905	Coldwell & Coleman
1905-1907	Coldwell, Coleman & Noble
1907-1912	Coldwell, Coleman & Curran
1913-1916	Coldwell, Coleman & Bruce
1916-1937	Coldwell, Coleman & Kerr
1937-1941	Coldwell, Coleman, Kerr & McQuarrie
1941-1949	Kerr, McQuarrie & Meighen
1949-1952	Kerr & Meighen
1952-1960	Kerr, Meighen, Haddad & Kerr
1960-1968	Kerr, Meighen & Haddad
1968-?	Meighen & Haddad

Members

Member	Period
George William Bruce (1862-1916)	1913-1916
George Robson Coldwell (1858-1924)	1882-1924
George Benjamin Coleman (1865-1943)	1897-1941
John Philpot Curran (1858-1928)	1907-1912
Thomas Mayne Daly (1852-1911)	1882-1887
Joseph Haddad (1917-2010)	1944-1987
John Cochrane Kerr (1920-1982)	1949-1960
Nettleton Whitby Kerr (1888-1963)	1912-1963
Robert Laughlin McQuarrie (1896-1968)	?-1949
Charles Osborne “Chuck” Meighen (1943-2018)	1967-2018
Frank Osborne Meighen (1908-1995)	1941-1995
James B. Noble (c1875-?)	1905-1907

See also:

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Crerar Building (129 Souris Street, Melita)

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Hughes Block (2-4 Crescent Avenue West, Souris, Municipality of Souris-Glenwood)

Sources:

“Local news,” Brandon Sun, 20 April 1905, page 3.

1906 Canada census, Automated Genealogy.

“Coming to Brandon,” Brandon Sun, 4 April 1907, page 11.

“Lt. Col. Bruce of Brandon dead,” Winnipeg Free Press, 24 April 1916, page 1.

Henderson’s Winnipeg and Brandon Directories, Henderson Directories Limited, Peel’s Prairie Provinces, University of Alberta Libraries.

We thank Veronica Johnston for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 30 April 2022