Auctioneer.
Born at thralee, Ireland in November 1846, he came to Canada with his parents in 1849 and settled at Guelph, Ontario where he was educated and began an auctioneering business. He moved to Winnipeg in 1882, at the time of the great real estate boom, opening an auctioneering business at the corner of Main and Market streets. He later moved to the corner of Portage and Main. After the boom collapsed, he returned briefly to Guelph but came back to Winnipeg, where he lived for the remainder of his life.
He and wife Annie S. Conway had three children: Edward Harold Conway (1888-?), Margaret Pearl Conway (1892-1975, wife of Timothy Alfred McAuley), and Francis Eugene “Frank” Conway (1899-1969). He was a member of the Catholic Mutual Benefit Association, Knights of Columbus, and St. Vincent de Paul Society.
He died at his Winnipeg home, 177 Kennedy Street, on 12 October 1911 and was buried in St. Mary’s Cemetery. His pallbearers were John Kelly Barrett, Nicholas Bawlf, W. J. Rodney, J. A. Carroll, Patrick Shea, and Daniel Smith.
1901 and Canada censuses, Automated Genealogy.
Death registration [Michael Conway], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
“Michael Conway, an old-time auctioneer, died suddenly today,” Winnipeg Tribune, 12 October 1911, page 1.
“M. Conway, pioneer auctioneer, is dead,” Manitoba Free Press, 13 October 1911. [Manitoba Legislative Library, Biographical Scrapbook B5]
“Michael Conway buried today,” Winnipeg Tribune, 16 October 1911, page 1.
Marriage registration [Margaret Scanlon Conway, Timothy Alfred McAuley], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
“Social and personal,” Manitoba Free Press, 18 July 1929, page 7.
Michael Conway, FamilySearch.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 15 May 2025
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