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Joshua Callaway
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Businessman, realtor, municipal official.
Born at Weedon, Northamptonshire, England on 16 June 1830, he came to Canada with his parents in 1843 and settled in Stanley County, Ontario. In the early 1860s, he learned printing in the office of the Huron Gazette. He later moved to the Goderich Signal. When salt was discovered at Goderich, he formed the Dominion Salt Works but lost money on the venture. He then sold pianos for the Nordheimen Company at Toronto.
He came to Winnipeg in 1876 and opened an office as a manufacturers agent. He went into real estate at the time of the Winnipeg land boom of 1881-1882 and remained in this business for the remainder of his life.
He and wife Johanna Boyce Tweedy (1844-1943) had three daughters, including Elizabeth P. Callaway (1876-?). He served on the Winnipeg city council as an alderman for Ward 3 (1884, 1886-1891). He was a member of the Winnipeg School Board (1883-1890).
He died at his Winnipeg home, 1109 Portage Avenue, on 4 October 1921 and was buried in the Brookside Cemetery.
1901 Canada census, Automated Genealogy.
“Reminiscences of a pioneer settler,” Winnipeg Tribune, 28 June 1909, page 4.
“Pioneers of Winnipeg,” Winnipeg Tribune, 10 December 1910, page 1.
“Joshua Calloway is eighty-three,” Manitoba Free Press, 17 June 1913, page 7.
Death registrations [Joshua Calloway, Johnanna Boyce Callaway], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
“Joshua Calloway, pioneer resident of Winnipeg, dies,” newspaper clipping. [Manitoba Legislative Library, Biographical Scrapbook B7]
“Joshua Calloway, aged 91, dies at family residence, 1109 Portage Avenue,” Manitoba Free Press, 5 October 1921, page 11.
“Smile and live long life, says Mrs. Joshua Callaway,” Winnipeg Free Press, 12 October 1938, page 9.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough and Glen Toews.
Page revised: 20 January 2026
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