Development of Manitoba's Electrical Utilities
Starting with the Winnipeg Gas Company, a supplier of gas for lighting, many more gas, electricity, and transportation companies evolved in Manitoba during the following century until today when Manitoba Hydro became the sole supplier of electricity.
- Year
- Utilities
- 1873
- Winnipeg Gas Company
- 1880
- Manitoba Electric & Gas Light Company
- 1881
- Winnipeg Gas Company merged with Manitoba Electric & Gas Light Company
- 1882
- Winnipeg Street Railway Company
- 1883
- North West Electric Light and Power Company (Ltd.) (NWEL & P.Co.)
- 1889
- North West Electric Company Ltd.
- 1889
- Brandon Electric Light Company Ltd. (formation date unknown) built steam station in Brandon
- 1892
- Winnipeg Electric Street Railway Company (WESR.Co.)
- 1894
- Winnipeg Street Railway Company purchased by WESR.Co.
- 1898
- Manitoba Electric & Gas Light Company purchased by WESR.Co.
- 1900
- Winnipeg Selkirk & Lake Winnipeg Railway Company
- 1900
- North West Electric Company Ltd. purchased by WESR.Co.
- 1902
- Winnipeg General Power Company
- 1904
- Winnipeg General Power Company merged with WESR.Co. and became Winnipeg Electric Railway Company (WERCo.)
- 1905
- Suburban Rapid Transit Company became subsidiary of WERCo.
- 1906
- Winnipeg Selkirk & Lake Winnipeg Railway Company became subsidiary of WERCo.
- 1906
- City Light and Power Department
- 1911
- Winnipeg River Railway Company, financed by WERCo., affiliated to Winnipeg River Power Company
- 1913
- Winnipeg River Power Company became associate company of WERCo.
- 1913
- Minnedosa Power Company (formation date unknown) built Minnedosa Hydro Plant
- 1919
- Manitoba Power Commission (MPC)
- 1920
- Manitoba Power Company, a subsidiary of WERCo., took over Winnipeg River Railway Company and Winnipeg River Power Company
- 1921
- Canada Gas & Electric Corporation of Brandon formed with consolidation of Brandon Electric Light Company Ltd. and Brandon Gas & Power Company Limited
- 1924
- WERCo. changed name to Winnipeg Electric Company (WECo.)
- 1924
- Northwestern Power Company
- 1927
- Northwestern Power Company merged with WECo.
- 1931
- Canada Gas & Electric Corporation of Brandon purchased by MPC
- 1936
- Winnipeg Electric Company's Plan of Consolidation and Readjustment reorganized WECo. and its associated companies (Northwestern Power Company, Suburban Rapid Transit Company, Winnipeg Selkirk & Lake Winnipeg Railway Company)
- 1949
- Manitoba Hydro-Electric Board Development Act passed in Manitoba legislature
- 1951
- Manitoba Hydro-Electric Board (MHEB)
- 1952
- National Utilities Corporation Limited acquired by MPC
- 1952
- WECo. transferred its gas and transit assets to newly incorporated companies, Greater Winnipeg Gas and Greater Winnipeg Transit Company
- 1953
- MHEB amalgamated with WECo.
- 1955
- City of Winnipeg Hydro Electric System (City Hydro) became sole distributor of electricity in City of Winnipeg
- 1955
- Manitoba Power Commission (MPC) became sole distributor of electricity in suburban Winnipeg and all of Manitoba
- 1958
- The Pas Electrical Utility purchased by MPC
- 1959
- Cranberry Portage Distribution System purchased by MPC
- 1959
- Town of Selkirk Electrical Distribution System purchased by MPC
- 1961
- Manitoba Hydro
- 1964
- City of Winnipeg Hydro Electric System (City Hydro) became Winnipeg Hydro
- 1970
- Laurie River generating stations, owned by Sherritt Gordon Mines Limited, taken over by Manitoba Hydro
- 1999
- Manitoba Hydro purchased Centra Gas from West Coast Energy Inc.
- 2002
- Manitoba Hydro purchased Winnipeg Hydro
