Memorable Manitobans: Alfred Augustus Andrews (1865-1912)

Businessman.

Born at Augusta, Ontario on 14 February 1865, son of the Reverend William and Armanella Andrews, he was educated at Ottawa, Ontario. He commenced business career as a bookkeeper at Port Hope, Ontario in 1880. He came to Winnipeg in 1881 and became vice-president and general manager of the Winnipeg Rubber Company, a subsidiary of Gutta Percha Rubber Company of Toronto.

He was active in community affairs, serving as president of the Winnipeg Industrial Bureau, secretary and vice-president of the Winnipeg Rowing Club, Director of the Industrial and Development Bureau, president of the Winnipeg Industrial Exhibition Association, chairman of the Entertainment Commercial Industrial Bureau, director of Brydges & Waugh Limited, secretary-treasurer of the Winnipeg Rubber and Apparatus Company, president of the Manitoba Cold Storage Company, and secretary and vice-president of the Winnipeg Rowing Club since 1905.

He married Francis Louise Murray of Montreal in 1895. They had a daughter, Dorothy Andrews. He was a member of the Manitoba Club, Carleton Club, Adanac Club, St. Charles Country Club, Stonewall Country Club, and Stonewall Auto Club. Recreation: Towing. Conservative. Address: 292 Assiniboine Avenue, Winnipeg.

He died at Chicago, Illinois in 1912.

Sources:

Who’s Who in Western Canada: A Biographical Dictionary of Notable Living Men and Women of Western Canada, Volume 1, edited by C. W. Parker, Vancouver: Canadian Press Association, 1911.

A History of Manitoba: Its Resources and People by Prof. George Bryce, Toronto: The Canadian History Company, 1906.

The Story of Manitoba by F. H. Schofield, Winnipeg: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1913.

Pioneers and Early Citizens of Manitoba, Winnipeg: Manitoba Library Association, 1971.

Dictionary of Manitoba Biography by J. M. Bumsted, Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 1999.

Profile revised: 27 December 2009

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