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Miller and Richard Type Founders Building
(Western Elevator and Motor Company)
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Together with the adjacent Maw & Co. Garage on Princess
Street, the Miller and Richard Type Founders building remains
an important part of turn-of-the-century commercial streetscape
that still exists in the warehouse district southwest of
City Hall.
The Miller and Richard Company which supplied metal type
and printers’ machinery occupied the building in 1905. Originating
in Scotland, the firm established a base in eastern Canada,
expanding to Winnipeg in response to the city’s flourishing
printing and publishing trade that needed ready access to
specialty equipment and repair services. The firm remained
in the building until 1931 when it left the city. Another
original tenant, the printing and bookbinding enterprise
of Douglass-McIntyre Company, did not move from 121 Princess
until the early 1940s.
