Hardware merchant, tinsmith.
Born in Bruce County, Ontario on 18 August 1866, one of three brothers who came to Manitoba and settled at Arden where he worked as a hardware merchant and tinsmith. He was a business partner in the firm Arden Cement Block and Building Company that constructued several buildings in the Arden area of concrete blocks. He moved to Winnipeg around 1921, worked as a hardware salesman, and lived with his wife Annie Hargreaves Gilhuly (1864-1935) at 317 King Edward Street. He died at the Winnipeg General Hospital on 2 April 1941 and was buried in the St. James Cemetery.
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Manitoba’s Concrete Block Buildings by Gordon Goldsborough
Manitoba History, Number 72, Spring-Summer 2013
1921 Canada census, Ancestry.
Death registrations [Anne Hargreaves Gilhuly, John Alexander Gilhuly], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Obituary, Winnipeg Tribune, 2 April 1941, page 18.
“In the matter of the estate of John Alexander Gilhuly,” Winnipeg Tribune, 12 April 1941, page 29.
Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 31 August 2025
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