Grain broker.
Born at Millbrook, Ontario on 4 August 1879, son of Archibald McBean and Sarah Dawson (1837-1921), he came to Manitoba and worked in the grain industry with his family firm, A. McBean and Sons, and later as a grain broker in partnership with his brother Bruce McBean with Bruce McBean and Company. In 1917, he co-founded with his brother-in-law Roland McNutt Macleod a mail order farm supply business that became Macleods Limited.
On 1 June 1904, he married Luelle Woonona Macleod (1885-1955, daughter of William Wallace Macleod) at Winnipeg. They had three sons: George McBean (1906-1926), Philip Wallace McBean (1907-1950), and Athol Oscar McBean (1911-1969, husband of Mary Maxwell Dennistoun, son-in-law of Robert Maxwell Dennistoun). The family lived at 97 Yale Avenue.
He died at Victoria, British Columbia on 27 November 1961 and was buried in the Elmwood Cemetery.
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Richards House (97 Yale Avenue, Winnipeg)
Manitoba Business: Macleods Limited / Macleod Stedman Limited
Marriage registration [Luelle Woonona Mcleod, Athol Bobat McBean], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Birth registrations [Philip Wallace McBean, Athol Oscar McBean], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
“Geo. M'Bean victim of Winnipeg River,” Manitoba Free Press, 22 July 1926, page 3.
Death registrations [Philip Wallace McBean, Athol Robert James McBean, Athol Oscar McBean], British Columbia Vital Statistics.
“P. W. McBean dies, native of Winnipeg,” Winnipeg Free Press, 2 November 1950, page 19.
Obituary, Winnipeg Tribune, 29 November 1961, page 38.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 12 September 2024
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