Manitoba Organization: Winnipeg Stock Exchange

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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).

Presidents

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

Sources:

“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