In 1910, the Carberry News Express newspaper was founded when James L. Cowie arrived in town and united the two existing weeklies, the News and the Express. It occupied this building along Main Street in Carberry, built in the late 1890s. The two-storey part originally housed a branch of the Merchants Bank of Canada and the one-storey part had been a pool hall and barber shop. It is now a municipally-designated historic site (2007).
Merchants Bank branch at Carberry (no date)
Source: Carberry Plains Archives
Carberry News Express Building (April 2010)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough
Carberry News Express Building (July 2022)
Source: George PennerSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.86700, W99.35925
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Municipally Designated Historic Sites
MHS Centennial Business: Carberry News-Express
Manitoba Business: Merchants Bank of Canada
Carberry News Express Building, 34 Main Street, Carberry, Manitoba Historic Resources Branch.
We thank George Penner and Jordan Makichuk for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 12 July 2022
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