Manitoba Organization: Winnipeg Grain Exchange / Winnipeg Commodity Exchange

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On 24 November 1887, a group of men including Daniel H. McMillan, George F. Galt, James A. Mitchell, Rodmond P. Roblin, Arthur Atkinson, Nicholas Bawlf, Samuel Spink, D. G. McBean, George J. Maulson, and Charles N. Bell met at the offices of the Winnipeg Board of Trade. They decided to organize the Winnipeg Grain and Produce Exchange, which became the Winnipeg Grain Exchange in the early 20th century, then the Winnipeg Commodity Exchange in 1972. Later known as ICE Futures Canada, it was closed in May 2018.

Winnipeg Grain and Produce Exchange (1887-1907)

Presidents

Period	President	Company at Time of Office
1887-1888	Daniel Hunter McMillan (1846-1933)	D. H. McMillan and Company
1889	Samuel Spink (1850-1916)	Broker
1890	Nicholas Bawlf (1849-1914)	N. Bawlf, Crowe and Company
1891	Frederick William Thompson (1862-1912)	Ogilvie Flour Mills Company
1892	James Alexander Mitchell (1852-1926)	Martin, Mitchell and Company
1893	Arthur Atkinson (1851-1905)	Northern Elevator Company
1894	Samuel Alexander McGaw (1848-1916)	Lake of the Woods Milling Company
1895	George Reading Crowe (1852-1924)	Northern Elevator Company
1896	Stephen Nairn (1838-1900)	Oatmeal Mills
1897	Nicholas Bawlf (1849-1914)	Northern Elevator Company
1898	Robert Muir (1850-1908)	Dominion Elevator Company
1899	Joseph Harris (?-1899)	Dominion Elevator Company
1900	William Linton Parrish (1860-1949)	Manitoba Grain Company
1900-1901	William Martin (1856-1932)	Northern Elevator Company
1902	Charles Alexander Young (1855-1928)	Alexander McFee and Company
1903	Frederick Phillipps (1857-1932)	Dominion Elevator Company
1904	Alexander Ross Hargraft (1860-1919)	Coffee, Hargraft and Company
1905	John Love (1856-1939)	Winnipeg Elevator Company
1906	Isaac Capel Tilt (1871-1938)	James Carruthers Company
1907	William J. Bettingen (1869-1929)	W. J. Bettingen Company

Vice-Presidents

Period	Vice-President
1887-1888	?
1889	Nicholas Bawlf (1849-1914)
1890	Frederick William Thompson (1862-1912)
1891	James Alexander Mitchell (1852-1926)
1892	Arthur Atkinson (1851-1905)
1893	Thomas Gill
1894	?
1895	A. P. Stuart
1896	Joseph Harris (?-1899)
1897	Robert Muir (1850-1908)
1898	Henry Duncan Metcalfe (1864-1954)
1899	William Linton Parrish (1860-1949)
1900	William Martin (1856-1932)
1901	Charles Alexander Young (1855-1928)
1902	George V. Hastings
1903	Alexander Ross Hargraft (1860-1919)
1904	?
1905	Isaac Capel Tilt (1871-1938)
1906	William J. Bettingen (1869-1929)
1907	?

Secretary-Treasurer

Period	Secretary-Treasurer
1887-1915	Charles Napier Bell (1854-1936)
1915-1930	Robert Magill (1873-1930)

Winnipeg Grain Exchange (1908-1972)

Presidents (1908-1948)

Period	President	Company at Time of Office
1908	John Fleming (1858-1940)	Alexander McFee and Company
1908-1909	Hugh Northcote Baird (1877-1963)	Norris Grain and Elevator Company
1909-1910	George Fisher (1862-1922)	Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society
1910-1911	Archibald Dickson Chisholm (1857-1930)	Union Grain Company
1911-1912	Donald Morrison (1862-1935)	D. Morrison and Company
1912-1913	Andrew Kelly (1852-1930)	Western Canadian Flour Mills
1913-1914	Alvin Keyes Godfrey (1871-1956)	Canadian Elevator Company
1914-1915	Sidney Thomas Smith (1878-1947)	Smith, Murphy and Company
1915-1916	William Edwin Milner (1865-1942)	Maple Leaf Milling Company
1916-1917	John C. Gage (1876-1930)	Consolidated Elevator Company
1917-1918	William Richard Bawlf (1881-1972)	N. Bawlf Grain Company
1918-1919	Frederick J. Anderson (1878-1931)	British Empire Grain Company
1919-1920	John Esterbrooke Botterell (1880-1924)	Baird and Botterell
1920-1921	Norman Lawrence Leach (1876-1949)	National Elevator Company
1921-1922	Charles Henry Leaman (1871-1930)	Northern Elevator Company
1922-1923	John Bremner Craig (1872-1942)	Central Grain Company
1923-1924	James Armstrong Richardson (1885-1939)	James Richardson and Sons
1924-1925	C. C. Fields	Norris Grain Company
1925-1926	D. C. MacLachlan	Western Elevator Company
1926-1927	A. Thomson	International Elevator Company
1927-1928	Elbert Walter Kneeland (1866-1941)	Port Arthur Elevator Company
1928-1929	James Alexander Crowe (1890-1966)	British Empire Grain Company
1929-1930	William Arthur Murphy (1884-?)	Reliance Grain Company
1930-1931	A. P. White	A. P. White and Company
1931-1932	Charles Edward “Charlie” Hayles (c1885-1952)	Canadian Consolidated Elevator Company
1932-1933	Sidney Thomas Smith (1878-1947)	Reliance Grain Company
1933-1934	Henry Eugene Sellers (1886-1970)	Federal Grain Limited
1934-1935	Roy Wilfred Milner (1892-1986)	Jackson Brothers
1935-1936	Rupert Cambourne Reece (1894-1951)	K. B. Stoddart and Company
1936-1937	William Johnstone Dowler (1887-1951)	Parrish & Heimbecker
1937-1938	H. Gauer	James Richardson and Sons
1938-1939	J. W. Horn	Western Canadian Flour Mills
1939-1941	George S. Mathieson (1873-1951)	Norris Grain Company
1941-1942	Stewart Augustus Searle (1897-1977)	Searle Grain Company
1942-1943	Kenneth A. Powell (1898-1982)	Halett-Carey-Swart Limited
1943-1944	Alexander “Alex” Christie (1878-1947)	Canadian Consolidated Grain Company
1944-1946	G. S. Mathieson	Norris Grain Company
1946-1948	Stanley Neville Kennedy Jones (1893-1981)	Stanley N. Jones Grain Brokers

Chairmen (1948-1986)

Period	Chairman	Company at Time of Office
1948-1949	Harley L. Flood (c1896-1953)	Cargill Grain Company
1949-1950	Robert Russell “Russ” Emerson (1894-1987)	National Grain Company
1950-1951	Stanley Neville Kennedy Jones (1893-?)	Broker
1951	Charles Leo Simmonds (1889-1951)	Broker
1951-1952	John Roderick “Jack” Lindsay (1901-1998)	Canadian Consolidated
1952-1953	D. G. Thomson	James Richardson and Sons
1953-1954	Charles Kroft (1906-1984)	McCabe Grain
1954-1955	Frederick William Parrish (1894-1961)	Parrish & Heimbecker
1955-1956	Augustus Searle Leach (1909-1993)	Searle Grain Company
1956-1958	Roger Newell Hickman (1904-1985)	Norris Grain Company
1958-1959	George Taylor Richardson (1924-2014)	James Richardson and Sons
1959-1960	Earl Harry Greene (1921-1983)	Cargill Grain Company
1960-1961	Ross Grant Wright (1902-1992)	Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society
1961-1962	B. J. Knight	N. M. Paterson and Sons
1962-1963	M. Miller	Searle Grain Company
1963-1964	George W. P. Heffelfinger (?-1970)	National Grain Company
1964-1965	Morland Oswald “Ossie” Thomas (1907-1991)	Louis Dreyfus
1965-1966	M. O. L. Tod	Anglo-Canadian Grain
1966-1967	N. H. McClure	Ogilvie Flour Mills Company
1967-1968	William Bruce “Bill” Parrish	Parrish & Heimbecker
1968-1969	C. J. MacRae	Superior Shipping
1969-1970	Stewart Augustus Searle Jr.	Federal Grain Limited
1970-1971	John Thompson Dallas (1909-1976)	Continental Grain
1971-1972	Robert Peter “Bob” Purves (1927-1997)	Inter-Ocean Grain
1972-1973	C. F. Edwards	Dominion Malting
1973-1974	K. Bruce MacMillan (1924-2014)	James Richardson and Sons
1974-1975	D. W. Elliot	Canada Malting
1975-1976	E. V. Titheridge	United Grain Growers
1976-1977	Bruce Hayles (1930-2016)	Wincliffe Shipping
1977-1978	R. L. M. Dawson	Cargill Grain Company
1978-1979	Bruce Hayles (1930-2016)	Wincliffe Shipping
1979-1980	G. W. McClintock	Continental Grain
1980-1981	W. H. L. Rolston	James Richardson and Sons
1981-1982	G. E. Sproule	Sproule Grain
1982-1983	J. E. Field	Parrish & Heimbecker
1983-1984	R. J. McNab	Continental Grain
1984-1985	D. W. Champion	James Richardson and Sons
1985-1986	C. Swartz	Northern Sales

See also:

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Grain Exchange Building (167 Lombard Avenue, Winnipeg)

Sources:

First Annual Report of the Winnipeg Grain and Produce Exchange, 9 February 1889. [Manitoba Legislative Library, HD-9044, Win 1889]

“Golden Jubilee; Half Century of Trading Marked by Grain Exchange,” Winnipeg Free Press, 8 December 1937, page 3.

The Exchange: 100 Years of Trading Grain in Winnipeg by Allan Levine. Winnipeg: Peguis Publishers Limited, 1987.

“Winnipeg Grain Exchange closing doors after 131 years,” Winnipeg Free Press, 11 May 2018.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 7 May 2023