MHS Centennial Business: Aikins, MacAulay & Thorvaldson / MLT Aikins

Established in 1879, Aikins, MacAulay & Thorvaldson LLP was the oldest and largest law firm in Manitoba. Its founding lawyer was J. A. M. Aikins, who was later joined first by Albert Monkman, and later by William H. Culver and Charles E. Hamilton. An MHS Centennial Business Award was presented to the firm in 2004 by Ken A. Zealand.

On 1 January 2017, Aikins, MacAulay & Thorvaldson merged with the Saskatchewan-based law firm of MacPherson Leslie & Tyerman to form the firm MLT Aikins.

Members (1879-1979)

Member	Period
Gordon Harold Aikins (1887-1954)	1910-1954
James Albert Manning Aikins (1851-1929)	1879-1929
Frank Dennison Allen (1927-1998)	1962-1976
Alfred Joseph Andrews (1865-1950)	1943-1950
Fletcher S. Andrews (1869-1949)	1943-1949
Robert B. Baillie	1928-1929
H. D. Barbour	1922-1926
Francis Martin “Frank” Bastin (1896-1986)	1946-1959
Allan B. Bell	1913-1919
B. G. Bergh	1973-1975
Allan Shipley Bond (1879-1959)	1907-1908
Derek A. Booth	1966-1975
David A. Bowles	1969-1981
Richard L. Bricker	1970-1979
Bidwell W. Bridgman	1916-1920
Edward J. Brown	1965-1966
John C. Brown	1963-1968
Oliver E. Bryan	1943-1946
Henry Arnold Burbidge (1874-?)	1905-1906
Andrew Lorne Campbell (1920-2014)	1964-2005
Colin H. Campbell (1859-1914)	1882
Charles L. Chappell	1979-?
Ephraim H. Coleman	1922-1926
John Champion Collinson (1878-1934)	1929-1930
Gordon W. Cormack	1962-1966
James Bowes Coyne (1878-1965)	1905-1912
Lawrence Ramsay “Larry” Crane (1935-2020)	1968-2012
William Henry Culver (1850-1900)	1880-1900
Thomas Dickey Cumberland (1853-1939)	1882-1883
Robert E. Curran	1929-1942
Roland B. F. Dias	1969-?
Robert Brian Dickson (1916-1998)	1945-1963
William Taylor Dorward (1904-1975)	1931-1933
Arni G. Eggertson	1939-1966
George Elsey	1933-1936, 1954-1962
S. Jane Evans	1977-?
Cy M. Fien	1978-1980
Randolph Murray Fisher (1886-1965)	1915-1926
Raymond H. G. Flett	1968-?
Joseph Patrick Foley (1878-1928)	1908-1918
James E. Foran (1937-2014)	1962-2008
Knox B. Foster (1939-2003)	1964-2003
Martin H. Freedman	1969-2002, 2012-?
Charles Percy Fullerton (1870-1938)	1906-1917
W. S. Gange	1979-?
Dennis J. Gibbs	1964-?
W. Gordon Gunn	1926-1928
Graeme Thomson Haig (1923-1993)	1949-1950
Charles Edward Hamilton (1844-?)	1881-1888
Roger James Hansell (1929-2019)	1954-2008
Reginald V. Harris	1908
Bonnie M. Helper	1972-1974
David G. Hill	1975-?
Thomas W. B. Hinch	1928-1945, 1947-1981
John D. Holland	1970-1971
John G. Hossack	1896-1900
Jabez Bowen Hugg (1872-?)	1904-1906
William Frederick Hull (1866-?)	1892-1901
Theodore Alexander Hunt (1871-1934)	1903-1904
Alan J. Irving	1966-1982
D. Rae Jackson	1946-1961
Sam W. Jackson	1881-1882
Thomas E. D. Jackson	1943-1945
Ian L. Jessiman	1960-1976
Diane E. Jones	1979-?
Patrick D. Kennedy	1948
Cyril G. Labman	1968-?
Francis Bastin “Frank” Lamont (1933-1998)	1960-1963
John Salmon Lamont (1925-2016)	1952-?
Gordon C. Lindsay	1913-1914
Edwin Loftus (1868-1948)	1901-1906, 1912-1948
William H. Long	1884-1889
James A. Loughead	1882-1883
Colin R. MacArthur	1969-?
John Alexander MacAulay (1892-1978)	1919-1978
J. Blair MacAulay	1960-1975
Elliott B. MacDonald	1968-?
William Steward Arnold Martin (1924-1996)	1968-1996
Arthur Valentine Mauro	1953-1969
Peter McCarthy	1882-1886
Deborah J. McCawley	1976-1978
R. Daniel McClelland	1973-1974
Alexander V. McCleneghan	1884-1899
Donald Cameron McGavin (1914-1998)	1940-1967
G. D. McKay	1926-1927
Alasdair J. McKichan	1958-1959
Alexander McLeod	1888-1891
Glenn W. McPherson	1935-1938
Roland Fairbairn McWilliams (1874-1957)	1910-1913
John R. E. Medland	1956-1957
Aristotle John “Telly” Mercury (1934-2010)	1964-2010
Leon N. Mercury	1969-?
Michael J. Mercury	1959-?
George G. Mills	1882-1887
George Dyett Minty (1869-1911)	1894-1901
Andrew Allison “Andy” Moffat (1895-1964)	1953-1964
Albert Monkman (1850-1918)	1879-1881
Marc M. Monnin	1978-?
Elizabeth F. Morrison	1945-1947
Peter Scott Morse (1927-2018)	1952-1975
W. Scott Neal	1939-1942
Charles K. Newcombe	1913-1918
Douglas Nicholson	1916-1917
E. Bruce Parker	1977-?
Gerald D. Parkinson	1972-?
Donald C. Paterson	1971-1978
George Patterson (1846-1925)	1889-1892
John Pearson	1962-1968
Herbert Marquis Pickard (1916-2010)	1940-1954
Isaac Pitblado (1867-1964)	1889-1890, 1900-1904
Jules Preudhomme (1877-?)	1906-1910
Hugh Amos Robson (1871-1945)	1899-1910
Daryl J. Rosin	1979-?
Marshall E. Rothstein	1966-?
Gerald Stewart Rutherford (1890-1987)	1919-1926
J. Timothy Samson	1967-?
G. W. Saunders	1948-1970
Calvin G. Scarfe	1965-1968
J. G. Scott	1975
W. A. Scott	1927-1928
Robert Gordon Smellie (1923-2005)	1967-?
Fritz W. S. Sparling (1877-1947)	1900-1906
Kristjan F. Stefanson	1970-1979
James Herbert Stitt (1891-1958)	1925-1928
Frances M. Stratham	1973-?
Alexander John Stringer (1903-1969)	1943-1959
Orval Wood Struthers (1895-1980)	1942-1970
Bruce W. Thompson	1902-1903
Donald Alexander Thompson (1904-1992)	1925-1953
Gunnar Solmunder Thorvaldson (1901-1969)	1925-1969
Andrew Crawford “Andy” Tough (1921-2016)	1969-1998
George Eric Tritschler (1901-1993)	1926-1952
Frederick James Turner (1896-1982)	1942-1945
David L. Voechting	1978-?
Shael H. Wilder	1979-?
Esten Kenneth Williams (1889-1970)	1919-1940
Rowland K. Williams	1949-1962
Richard Trimble Willis (1944-1989)	1970-1980
Richard L. Yaffe	1979-?

See also:

A Proud Heritage: The First Hundred Years of Aikins, MacAulay and Thorvaldson by Lee Gibson, Winnipeg: Aikins, MacAulay & Thorvaldson, 1979.

Aikins, MacAulay & Thorvaldson LLP

Sources:

“Largest law firms in Manitoba, Saskatchewan to merge,” CBC News, 21 September 2016.

We thank Dabota Fashola for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 10 June 2021