Businessman.
Born at Shropshire, England on 8 February 1877, he came to Canada in 1881 with his family. Initially settling in Toronto, the T. Eaton Company transferred him to Winnipeg after a seven-year period that began in 1898. He developed the Farm News service and made studies of the use of Tyndall stone for the company, eventually retiring in 1938.
He was active in the industrial development board and the agricultural bureau of the Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce. He was also a member of the Minnesota Horticultural Society, South Dakota Horticultural Society, and Agricultural Institute of Canada. He served on the board of Rupert’s Land Girls’ School, Canadian Club, and Elmhurst Golf Links. He was an honorary member of the King Solomon’s Lodge GRC (Toronto). A member of the Manitoba Fur Breeders’ Association, he raised domestic mink on his ranch, the Woodlands, in Charleswood. He and his wife Charlotte Margaret shared two children: Stewart G. Pugh and Margaret Pugh.
He died at his Winnipeg home, 449 Greenwood Place, on 14 August 1948 and was buried in the Elmwood Cemetery.
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Geddes House (33 Middle Gate, Winnipeg)
1901 Canada census. Automated Genealogy.
“F. Pugh, former department store official, dies,” Winnipeg Free Press, 16 August 1948. [Manitoba Legislative Library, Biographical scrapbook B10, page 29]
This page was prepared by Sarah Ramsden.
Page revised: 23 May 2025
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