Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce

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The Chamber, the first in Western Canada, was incorporated on 8 March 1873 as the Winnipeg Board of Trade. Its founders included many of Manitoba’s early entrepreneurs. It was reorganized in 1879 with A. G. B. Bannatyne as its President.

Founders of the Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce

James Henry Ashdown (1844-1924)

John Balsillie (1839-1906)

Andrew Graham Ballenden Bannatyne (1829-1889)

Victor Beaupré

Curtis James Bird (1838-1876)

Alfred Boyd (c1836-1908)

Pascal Bréland (1811-1896)

A.M. Brown

James Clouston

Robert Cunningham (1836-1874)

William Drever (1821-1887)

R. J. Dunstan

William Flett

Frank Gingras

Edward Henry George Gunter Hay (1840-1918)

John Higgins (1807-1884)

Thomas Howard (1845-1903)

Colin Inkster (1843-1934)

John Inkster

George Kennedy

William Kennedy (1813-1890)

Joseph Octave Lemay (1829-1892)

Alexander Logan (1841-1894)

William H. Lyon (c1833-1897)

William J. Macaulay

Alexander McArthur (1843-1887)

Andrew McDermot (1789-1881)

John McGregor

James McKay (1828-1879)

John Henry McTavish (1837-1888)

Onis Monchamp

Robert Morgan

Alexander “Sandy” Murray (1839-1913)

Robert Patterson

Joseph Royal (1837-1902)

J. G. Sonderman

Robert Tait (1830-1912)

Presidents of the Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce

Period	President
1873-1878
1879	Andrew Graham Ballenden Bannatyne (1829-1889)
1880	Arthur F. Eden (c1852-?)
1881	William H. Lyon (c1833-1897)
1882	Joseph Mulholland
1883	Charles John Brydges (1827-1889)
1884-1886	Kenneth McKenzie
1887	James Henry Ashdown (1844-1924)
1888	George Frederick Galt (1855-1928)
1889	James Redmond
1890	Robert J. Whitla (1846-1905)
1891	Stephen Nairn (1838-1900)
1892	James Elder Steen (1846-1909)
1893	Frederick William Stobart (1859-1935)
1894	William Bain Scarth (1837-1902)
1895	Robert Thomas Riley (1851-1944)
1896	F. H. Mathewson
1897	David Wesley Bole (1856-1933)
1898	Augustus Meredith Nanton (1860-1925)
1899	Edward Lancaster Drewry (1851-1940)
1900	Dawson Kerr Elliott (1853-1945)
1901	William Georgeson (1859-?)
1902	John Russell (c1850-1905)
1903	George Reading Crowe (1852-1924)
1904	Hodgson Wilberforce Hutchinson (1862-1949)
1905	A. L. Johnson
1906	Andrew Strang (1849-1913)
1907	George Frederick Carruthers (1846-1918)
1907-1908	John Thomas Blandell Persse (1861-1927)
1908-1909	Henry Martyn Belcher (1856-1923)
1909-1910	Edward Daniel Martin (1856-?)
1910-1911	Frederick William Drewry (1855-1927)
1911-1912	H. Bruce Gordon (1855-?)
1912-1913	Ezra Arthur Mott (1869-?)
1913-1914	John Stovel (1858-1923)
1914-1915	Melbourne Francis Christie (1864-1944)
1915-1916	George Nelson Jackson (1861-1944)
1916-1917
1917-1918	Alvin K. Godfrey (1871-1951)
1918-1920	William Henry Carter (1874-1962)
1920-1921	Edward Parnell (1859-1922)
1921-1925	William Andrew Travers Sweatman (1879-1941)
1925-1927	Robert G. Persse
1927-1928	Hedley Marsh
?	Graeme Thomson Haig (1923-1993)
?	Donald Gordon McKenzie (1887-1963)

Page revised: 26 December 2009