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McClary Building
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Like many wholesalers in the district, Ontario-based McClary
Manufacturing Company relocated its Winnipeg branch closer
to the railway spur lines in the eastern half of the warehouse
district. McClary, a family business started in London,
Ontario in the early 1850s, had developed into one of the
largest wood stove and coal furnace manufacturers in the
British Empire. Its Winnipeg branch was established by
1882. The company had found a ready market for their products
in the waves of homesteaders pouring into Western Canada.
The company commissioned architect S. Frank Peters and
contractor J.A. Girvin and Company to build a new, larger
warehouse on the north side of Bannatyne between Main and
Rorie streets.
