Link to:
Presidents | Sources
The Winnipeg Stock Exchange traces its origins to the early 1880s. Meetings were held by member companies and, on 1 March 1883, membership was capped at 40. Activity levels of the unincorporated group varied and diminished over the years. The present incarnation dates to 1903 when it was incorporated by an Act of the Manitoba Legislative on 18 March. Founding members were contractor H. M. Sutherland, broker Augustus Meredith Nanton, grain merchant G. R. Crowe, MLA J. T. Gordon, Massey Harris Company Manager R. H. Agur, Manitoba Assurance Company Manager Herbert Henry Beck, and Minneapolis broker Charles E. Lewis. The Exchange was largely dormant until 1906 when development in Western Canada picked up pace. Formal and regular meetings began in August 1908 and a President was elected. The Exchange, located on the third floor of the Grain Exchange Building, was opened officially on 1 February 1909.
In November 2000, the Winnipeg Stock Exchange merged operations with the Canadian Venture Exchange. It now operates under the name of ICE (Intercontinental Exchange).
Period
President
1903-1905
Hugo Ross
1906
Hugh McKay Sutherland (1845-1926)
1907-1909
Augustus Meredith Nanton (1860-1925)
1909-1912
Henry Thomson Champion (1847-1916)
1912-1914
William Sanford Evans (1869-1949)
1914-1915
Walter Thomas Kirby (1858-1936)
1915-1917
Thomas Richard Billett (1863-1936)
1917-1919
Closed
1919-1921
Walter Thomas Kirby (1858-1936)
1921-1923
Albert Livingstone Crossin (1868-1956)
1923-1925
Harry Ford (1870-1954)
1925-1928
Peter Lowe (1887-1980)
1928-1929
Thomas Richard Billett (1863-1936)
1929-1930
Harry Ford (1870-1954)
1929-1935
?
1935-1936
Thomas Cuthbert Anderson (1888-?)
1936-1941
Ralph Dennistoun Baker (1895-1960)
1942-1943
?
1943-1944
Richard Bingham
1944-1946
A. B. Flett
1946-?
David Alexander Bruce Murray (1891-1970)
1949
Jack Sheridan Lightcap (1904-1963)
1950-1952
Edward Augustus Nanton (1901-1967)
1952-1954
Peter Duncan Curry (1912-1996)
1955-?
Roderick Alexander Copland (1909-1959)
1958-1959
R. Wallace Spear
1959-1960
Robert G. McCulloch
1960-1963
Hellmut Hans Fritz “Bobby” Herrndorf (1903-1979)
1963-1967
?
1967-1969
Edward Elmore Glasgow (1910-1977)
1969-1972
Gerald S. Swindell (c1915-2003)
1972-1974
Robert Whitla Richards (1909-1989)
1974-1976
Alan R. Maxwell
1976-1977
Harvey Scrivener
1977-1978
?
1978-?
Jordan T. Ethans
?-1982
?
1982-?
Robert Stafford
?-1987
?
1987-1988
Robert Vandewater
1988-1993
?
1993-?
Vincent Catalano
?-1997
?
1997-2000
Kenneth Cooper
“City and Province [The Winnipeg Stock Exchange],” Manitoba Daily Free Press, 15 December 1882, page 8.
“Winnipeg Stock Exchange,” Manitoba Daily Free Press, 2 March 1883, page 2.
“To-day twenty years ago [1883],” Manitoba Morning Free Press, 12 March 1903, page 1.
“He failed to apologise,” Manitoba Free Press, 28 February 1903, page 3.
“Winnipeg’s new Stock Exchange,” Winnipeg Tribune, 1 February 1909, page 1.
“New members of Exchange,” Winnipeg Tribune, 22 February 1909, page 9.
“Winnipeg Stoch [sic] ’Change opens; closed 4 years,” Winnipeg Tribune, 2 January 1919, page 1.
“Will be re-elected,” Manitoba Free Press, 18 September 1919, page 10.
“Stock Exchange annual,” Manitoba Free Press, 16 June 1921, page 12.
“Winnipeg Stock Exchange” by W. Sanford Evans, Winnipeg Tribune, 10 March 1928, pages 28 & 29.
This page was prepared by Nathan Kramer and Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 19 February 2023
