Thomas Black (1856-1914)

Hardware merchant.

He was born in Niagara, Ontario on 11 May 1856 and moved at the age of one month to Montreal where he grew up and was educated privately and at the Montreal Military School. He then learned the hardware business and came to Winnipeg in 1872. For three years, he managed the hardware department in a store owned by A. G. B. Bannatyne. He then went into the manufacturers agency business and traded with aboriginal people. He later worked for 15 years in the employ of J. H. Ashdown. He resigned the position in 1894 and went into business for himself as a manufacturers agent.

He was a member of the Carleton Club, AF & AM, Woodmen of the World, Ancient Order of United Workmen, the Commercial Travellers of America, and the North West Commercial Travellers Association.

He died at Winnipeg on 21 August 1914.

Sources:

Death registration, Manitoba Vital Statistics.

1901 Canada census, Automated Genealogy.

This profile was written by Gordon Goldsborough.

Profile revised: 21 December 2009

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