Businessman.
Born at Teutopolis, Illinois in 1906, he came to Flin Flon in 1929 and, after working for two years at the Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting Company, he started a freight service in The Pas. When Highway #10 was completed, he established R. F. Gardewine and Sons Trucking Company as the first licensed freighting service between Flin Flon and Winnipeg. It became a major trucking service across northern Manitoba. He and wife Mary Ann Seidel (1906-1980) had four children: Edward Paul “Ed” Gardewine (1928-2018), Cecil Raymond Gardewine (1932-1996), Phyllis Gardewine, and Irene “Rennie” Gardewine. He died at Flin Flon on 25 November 1955 and was buried in the Ross Lake Cemetery.
Obituary, Winnipeg Tribune, 26 November 1955, page 41.
Obituar [Cecil Raymond Gardewine], Winnipeg Free Press, 25 July 1996, page 20.
Obituary [Edward Paul Gardewine], Winnipeg Free Press, 1 May 2018.
Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 17 December 2025
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