William Henry Carter (1874-1962)

President and General Manager, Carter-Halls-Aldinger Company, Ltd., Winnipeg. [construction company]

Born at Bismark, Illinois on 21 January 1874, son of Ninion R. and Elizabeth J. Carter, he was educated at Danville, Illinois. He commenced his business career as a timekeeper for the M. Yeager & Sons construction firm, in 1896. He worked for ten years as Superintendent of Construction for the William Grace Company of Chicago, coming to Winnipeg in 1903 and organized the Carter-Halls-Aldinger Company.

He served as President of the Western Drainage Company, Vice President of the Lake Bar Sand and Gravel Company, and a Director of the Walbridge Aldinger Company (Detroit), Aldinger Company (Detroit), Sovereign Life Insurance Company, and the Winnipeg Cartage Company. He was President of the Winnipeg Builders’ Exchange (1910, 1911,1914) and the Winnipeg Board of Trade (1918-19). He operated a stock farm, known as Cloverleaf Farm, near Cloverleaf, Manitoba.

On 5 October 1904, he married Mary Julia Tullis (?-1950) of Danville, Illinois, with whom he had one son. He was a member of the Manitoba Club, Carleton Club, Adanac Club, Commercial Travellers Club and St. Charles Country Club. Presbyterian. He lived at 261 Harvard Street, Winnipeg.

He died on 1 December 1962. He is commemorated by Carter Avenue in Winnipeg.

Some of the buildings that his firm constructed:

• Marshall-Wells Building (136 Market Avenue, Winnipeg), 1905-06
• Casa Loma Building (Portage Avenue and Sherbrook Street, Winnipeg), 1909
• McArthur Building / Childs Building (211 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg), 1909
• Confederation Life Association Building (457 Main Street, Winnipeg), 1912
• Winnipeg Electric Railway Building (213 Notre Dame Avenue, Winnipeg), 1912-13
• Manitoba Free Press Building (300 Carlton Street, Winnipeg), 1913
• Olympia Hotel / Marlborough Hotel (331 Smith Street, Winnipeg), 1913
• St. Charles Hotel (235 Notre Dame Avenue, Winnipeg), 1913
• Minto Armouries (969 St. Matthews Avenue, Winnipeg), 1914
• Trust and Loan Co. Building (Winnipeg), no date
• Hudson’s Bay Warehouse (Winnipeg), no date
• Great West Permanent Building (Winnipeg), no date
• Grain Exchange Building (Winnipeg), no date
• Confederation Life Assurance Co. Building (Winnipeg), no date
• Sterling Bank Building (Winnipeg), no date
• Administration Building, Power House, Agricultural College (Winnipeg), no date
• School for the Deaf (Winnipeg), no date
• Hospital for Insane (Selkirk), no date
• Leeson and Lineham Building (Calgary), no date
• Cuthbertson Building (Fort William, Ontario), no date
• Roundhouses for the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway (Watrous, Biggar, Wainwright, Edmonton, Westfort), no date
• Hudson’s Bay Store (Calgary), no date
• Canadian National Railway Station (Vancouver), no date
• Canadian Pacific Railway Station (Moose Jaw), no date
• Hudson’s Bay Stores (Victoria), no date

More information:

Manitoba Legislative Library, Biographical Scrapbook B13, page 56, Obituary - W. H. Carter.

City of Winnipeg Heritage Buildings Conservation List

Sources:

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

“Free Press Necrology Files”, Winnipeg Elite Study, G. Friesen Fonds, Mss 154, Box 15, File 16, University of Manitoba Archives]

Profile revised: 7 March 2010

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