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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

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.

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We thank Veronica Johnston for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 30 April 2022

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