Manitoba Business: Winnipeg Construction Company

This Winnipeg-based construction company, with F. S. Thoms as manager, was active in the late 1900s and early 1910s but appears to have folded around 1916 when it sold its warehouse building on Minto Street.

Some of its construction work in Manitoba included:

Building

Location

Year

Status

Rooming House

Dagmar Street, Winnipeg

1909

Demolished (?)

Douglas Building

52 Adelaide Street, Winnipeg

1910

 

Beresford Block

465 Beresford Avenue, Winnipeg

1911

 

Molson Bank Building

377 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg

1911

Demolished (?)

Transcona Theatre / Apollo Theatre

109 Regent Avenue West, Winnipeg

1911-1912

Demolished (July 1969)

Stuart Court

52 Fawcett Avenue, Winnipeg

1912

 

Winnipeg General Hospital (addition)

Bannatyne Avenue, Winnipeg

1912

 

Sources:

“Transcona notes,” Manitoba Free Press, 6 July 1911, page 11.

“Building permits for 9 months are record,” Winnipeg Tribune, 1 October 1912, page 11.

“New treasurer,” Manitoba Free Press, 14 April 1916, page 33.

“Transcona theatre to be demolished,” Winnipeg Tribune, 8 July 1969, page 4.

Douglas & Company Building, 52 Adelaide Street by Murray Peterson, Winnipeg Historical Buildings & Resources Committee, May 2019.

We thank Glen Toews for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough and Jordan Makichuk.

Page revised: 24 January 2024