Grain merchant.
Born in Austria on 10 November 1886, son of Rudolf Gauer (1864-1914) and Anna Schmalenberg (1863-1932), brother of Edward Gauer and Elsie Lydia Gauer, he came to Winnipeg with his family in 1890.
He worked for James Richardson and Sons for 43 years, rising to the position of Western Manager. In 1949, he founded the Gauer Grain Company and was its President to his death. He was a director of the Canada Steamship Lines, Scott Bathgate Limited, and Pioneer Grain Company, and President of the Eastern Terminal Elevator Company. He was President of the Winnipeg Grain Exchange (1937-1938).
On 9 October 1912, he married Lydia Elizabeth Handel (1892-1970) at the Trinity Lutheran Church in Winnipeg and they subsequently had a son, Frederick Henry Gauer (1913-1980). He was a member of the Manitoba Club, St. Charles Country Club, Masons (Fort Osborne Lodge), Khartum Shriners, and St. Marks Lutheran Church. He served for a time on the seminary board of the United Lutheran Church of America in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
He died at his Winnipeg home, 1095 Wellington Crescent, on 18 February 1958 and was buried in the Elmwood Cemetery.
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Gauer House (1095 Wellington Crescent, Winnipeg)
Birth registrations [Lydia Elizabeth Handel, Henry Gauer], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
1901 Canada census, Automated Genealogy.
“Society,” Winnipeg Tribune, 7 October 1912, page 9.
Marriage registration [Heinrich Gaven, Lydia Elisabeth Handel], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
“Grain firm President dies at 71,” Winnipeg Free Press, 19 February 1958, page 2.
Obituary [Lydia E. Gauer], Winnipeg Free Press, 13 June 1970, page 40.
Obituary [Frederick Henry Gauer], Winnipeg Free Press, 15 September 1980, page 70.
Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 29 September 2025
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