Manitoba Business: Libling Michener and Associates / LM Architectural Group

Founded by architects Gerald A. Libling and Mel Peaslee Michener in 1954, this firm rebranded as LM Architectural Group in 1970 after Libling's departure.

Architects

Architect	Period
Terry Danelly	c2019
Michael Isbister	c2019
John James	c1970
David Kressock	c2019
Alvin Leonard Boyd “Al” Leader (1929-2001)	c1970-1975, 1980-1999
Gerald A. Libling (1930-2008)	1954-1970
Mel Peaslee Michener (1930-2017)	1954-1996
Oscar Rosenhahn	c1970
Desmond St. Lawrence	c1970
Leslie Joseph “Les” Stechesen	c1970

Work Examples

Building	Location	Year	Status
Ralph Maybank School	20 Donnelly Street, Winnipeg	1956-1957
Manitoba Teachers' Society Building	950 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg	1957
École Taché	744 Langevin Street, Winnipeg	1958
Birchwood School	150 Moray Avenue, Winnipeg	1959
Manitoba Health Services Commission	599 Empress Street, Winnipeg	1959
Winnipeg Hydro Sub-Station No. 21	132 Emonton Street, Winnipeg	1959
Executive House	390 Wellington Crescent, Winnipeg	1959-1960
Austin Collegiate	Austin, Municipality of North Norfolk	1960
Grosvenor House	811 Grosvenor Avenue, Winnipeg	1960
Monastery of the Precious Blood	3507 Vialoux Drive, Winnipeg	1960
Gimli High School	52 Seventh Avenue, Gimli, RM of Gimli	1960-1961
William Morton Collegiate	141 Morris Street South, Gladstone, Municipality of WestLake-Gladstone	1960-1961
Chapel St. Louis Le Roi	610 Rue la Fleche, Winnipeg	1961
City of East Kildonan Refuse Disposal Plant	901 Melrose Avenue, Winnipeg	1961
St. Eugene Church	1007 St. Mary's Road, Winnipeg	1961
Moosehorn Collegiate	Moosehorn, RM of Grahamdale	1961-1962
University of Manitoba Education Building	71 Curry Place, Winnipeg	1961-1962
Grosvenor House	811 Grosvenor Avenue, Winnipeg	1962
Inwood Collegiate	Inwood, RM of Armstrong	1962
Poplarfield Collegiate	Poplarfield, RM of Fisher	1962
Odeon Drive-In	4415 Portage Avenue, Headingley	1963
St. Mary’s Academy (addition)	Academy Road, Winnipeg	1963-1964
St. Paul's High School	2200 Grant Avenue, Winnipeg	1963-1964
Public Safety Building	151 Princess Street, Winnipeg	1965
St. John Brebeuf Church	1707 John Brebeuf Place, Winnipeg	1965
Manitoba Institute of Applied Arts	2055 Notre Dame, Winnipeg	1968-1970
Fisher Branch Collegiate Institute (expansion)	Fisher Branch, RM of Fisher	1970
One Evergreen Place	1 Evergreen Place, Winnipeg	?
Courts of St. James	2727 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg	?
Place Louis Riel	190 Smith Street, Winnipeg	1970
Victoria General Hospital	2340 Pembina Highway, Winnipeg	1970-1971
Holiday Towers North	170 Hargrave Street, Winnipeg	1973
Manulife Building	386 Broadway, Winnipeg	1977

Sources:

“St. Boniface firm gets U contract [University of Manitoba Education Building],” Winnipeg Free Press, 23 October 1961, page 8.

“St. Mary's to get new wing [St. May's Academy],” Winnipeg Free Press, 24 July 1963, page 5.

“Victoria Hospital sod turned,” Winnipeg Free Press, 3 December 1968, page 3.

Obituary [Alvin Leonard Boyd Leader], Winnipeg Free Press, 22 October 2001.

Firms [LM Architectural Group], Winnipeg Architecture Foundation, accessed 25 June 2021.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough and S. Goldsborough.

Page revised: 12 March 2023