George Montague Wilmot Blackhttps://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XLPP-KFH (14 December 1875 – 5 July 1959) was a Canadian businessman who became prominent in

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, Manitoba. He was the father of

George Montegu Black II George Montegu Black II (June 3, 1911 – June 29, 1976) was a Canadian business executive who served as the president of Canadian Breweries during the 1950s. He was the father of businessmen Montegu and Conrad Black. Life and career He was born ...

and grandfather of

Conrad Black Conrad Moffat Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour (born 25 August 1944), is a Canadian-born British former newspaper publisher, businessman, and writer. His father was businessman George Montegu Black II, who had significant holdings in Canadi ...

.Memorable Manitobans: George Montegu Black (1875-1959)
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Life and career

Black was born in

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, the son of Alice Lucy (Ferris) and George Anderson Black. His father was an employee of the

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and immigrant from

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. The Black family spent time in Halifax before moving to Winnipeg in 1882. He worked in real estate and insurance, eventually becoming: * Partner and President, Robinson & Black (later known as Black & Armstrong) * President of the Western Dominion Investment Company of

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, British Columbia * Vice-president of the Manitoba Cold Storage Company of Winnipeg * Canadian director of the

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Company of

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* Director of the Canadian Pratt and Whitney Aircraft Company * Director of Combustion Engineering Corporation In 1901, he married Gertrude Maxwell Moffat, and they had two children: a daughter and a son,

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. In 1924, Black acquired a brewery business that was founded in 1887 by Edward L. Drewry (1851–1940). Black served as president of Western Breweries Limited and its subsidiary companies until he retired in 1950. He died in 1959 and was buried at St. John's Cemetery in Winnipeg.

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