Memorable Manitobans: Donald Morrison (1862-?)

Grain merchant.

Born at Habost, Ness, Island of Lewis, Scotland on 22 October 1862, he came to Winnipeg initially in 1881 and became a permanent resident in 1905. He was President of the Donald Morrison and Company, and the The Beaver Elevator Company; Director of the Western Terminal Elevator Company and the Grain Exchange Clearing House Association, and was identified with the Taylor Milling and Elevator Company (Lethbridge, Alberta) and the Traders Building Association of Winnipeg.

On 14 April 1887, he married Johanna Murray at Buffalo, New York. They had six children: Kenneth Morrison (b 1888), Donald J. Morrison (b 1889), Margaret Morrison (b 1895), Angus Morrison (b 1898), Catherine H. Morrison (b 1902), and Mary Morrison (b 1904). He was a member of the Winnipeg Grain Exchange (President in 1911-1912), Calgary Grain Exchange, Winnipeg Board of Trade, Canadian Club of Winnipeg, St. Andrews Society of Winnipeg, Gaelic Society of Winnipeg, Strathcona Curling Club, the Masons (Assiniboine Lodge), and the Presbyterian church. In 1911, he lived at 747 McMillan Avenue.

Sources:

1911 Canada census, Automated Genealogy.

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

The Leading Financial, Business & Professional Men of Winnipeg, published by Edwin McCormick, Photographs by T. J. Leatherdale, Compiled and printed by Stone Limited, c1913. [copy available at the Archives of Manitoba]

This profile was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Profile revised: 7 June 2010

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