Baker.
Born in Poland, he came to Winnipeg in the mid-1920s and, after working in a bakery for several years, started his own bakery on Selkirk Avenue in 1937. On 29 November 1930, he married Fagel “Florence” Grodzenczik (c1908-1998) at Winnipeg and they had three children: Betty Gunn (wife of Max Reisch), Bernard “Bernie” Gunn, and Arthur “Faivie” Gunn. He was a member of the B'nai B'rith and Ashkenaze Synagogue. He died at Miami, Florida on 5 March 1973 and was buried in the Shaarey Zedek Cemetery.
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Badner Building / Gunn’s Bakery (247 Selkirk Avenue, Winnipeg)
Marriage registration [Morris Gunn, Fannie Grodzenchik], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 6 March 1973, page 30.
“Bakery had humble beginnings,” Winnipeg Free Press, 18 August 1991, page 39.
Obituary [Florence Gunn], Winnipeg Free Press, 16 October 1998, page 7.
“Gunn’s Bakery serves new chapter,” Winnipeg Free Press, 2 January 2019, page 9.
“The Gunn’s Bakery story,” The Endowment Book of Life.
Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.
We thank Jordan Makichuk for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 29 April 2023
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