This two-storey stone building at the southwest corner of Railway Street and Moffat Avenue in Pilot Mound, in the Municipality of Louise, measuring 28 feet by 50 feet, was built in 1889 for the hardware, implement, and undertaking business of Dougald Brown “D. B.” Graham (1853-1939). In its original configuration, the structure contained a single retail space on the main floor and a single residential apartment on the second floor. Eventually, it was extended along Moffat Avenue.
The business was later carried on by his son Gordon McKenzie Adlum Lovatt Graham (1894-1957), grandsons Victor Alan “Vic” Graham (1923-1998) and Kenneth Gordon Graham (1925-2009), and great-grandson Fred Gordon Graham. In 1954, it was described as the “oldest, continuous hardware business in rural Manitoba”. In January 2009, the four-generation business was sold to another firm.
At the time of an April 2025 site visit, the building was vacant, surrounded by a fence. It was demolished in June 2025.
Graham Block (centre) on Railway Street South (no date)
Source: Pilot Mound Museum
Graham Block (no date)
Source: Pilot Mound Museum
Graham Block (no date)
Source: Pilot Mound District 75 Reunion, July 1954, page 57.
Graham Block (May 2021)
Source: George Penner
Graham Block (June 2023)
Source: Jordan Makichuk
Graham Block (April 2025)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough
Graham Block (April 2025)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough
Graham Block (April 2025)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough
Aerial view of buildings to be demolished (June 2025)
Source: Currie Country Living
Aerial view of buildings under demolition (June 2025)
Source: Currie Country Living
Aerial view of buildings under demolition (June 2025)
Source: Currie Country Living
Aerial view of buildings under demolition (June 2025)
Source: Currie Country Living
Aerial view after completion of demolition (June 2025)
Source: Currie Country LivingSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.20145, W98.89409
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Graham Building (23 Railway Avenue South, Pilot Mound, Municipality of Louise)
1901 Canada census, Automated Genealogy.
Marriage registration [Gordon McKenzie Adlum Lovatt Graham, Honor Margaret St Ruth], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Birth registrations [Victor Alan Graham, Kenneth Gordon Graham], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Pilot Mound District 75 Reunion, July 1954, page 57.
Obituary [Victor Alan Graham], Winnipeg Free Press, 4 June 1998, page 41.
Prairie Pride Land by Louise History Book Committee, 1998, page 46-47.
Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.
Our Staff, Wheatland Funeral Service.
We thank Heather Brewster (Pilot Mound Museum), Greg Currie (Currie Country Living), and George Penner for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Jordan Makichuk and Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 6 September 2025
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