Clare and Clare and Brodest Ltd

[casram]

Please does anyone know where I can find info on this company which was trading in Winnipeg sometime in the late 19th century

thanks

Carolyn

[Ken MacLean]

Carolyn,

After a Google or two and a search of the Toronto "Globe" archives it appears the name is "Brockest" vice "Brodest".

George A. Clare was one of the founders of Clare Bros. & Company, a foundry in Preston, Ontario manufacturing stoves, furnaces, water boilers, etc.

The company advertised regularly in the Globe, the first ad I found was in September 1886. In June, 1900 they show a Winnipeg branch of the company in addition to the original Preston location.

George A. Clare died 10 January 1915. His obituary mentions that he was president of Clare & Brockest  Ltd. of Winnipeg. Thinking that the Globe may have made a typo here, I searched on Brockest/Clare/Manitoba, etc. and found that the name associated with Clare is indeed Brockest.

The City of Cambridge, Ontario has a page on Clare in their Hall of Fame. Note that they also use the incorrect spelling Brodest.

http://tinyurl.com/3dndns

Cheers, Ken

[casram]

Thank you for that Ken. I did wonder about the name as I had not found the Brodest family outside Wales or the West Midlands before I found this reference on Google.


Carolyn

[Janice M]

Here are some more links

http://www.lib.uwo.ca/business/ccc-clare.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Adam_Clare

1911 Census
http://automatedgenealogy.com/census11/SplitView.jsp?id=33215

John Brockest (occupation: wholesale stores)

EDMONTON DAILY MAY 8, 1907
http://www.rootsweb.com/~abwcobit/NewsExtract/1907Edmonton/1907/5/FULTON19070508.txt

Manitoba Historical Society
http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/people/storyofmanitoba.shtml#b

Books

Directory of directors in Canada, 1912
http://www.archive.org/details/directorydirector00housuoft

A Square deal for all : historical essays on labour in Brandon
http://www.ourroots.ca/e/page.aspx?id=762668

The Story of Manitoba. Volume 3
"Clare - Story & Photo (mention of Brockest)"
http://www.ourroots.ca/e/page.aspx?id=1068751

http://www.archive.org/details/storyofmanitoba03schouoft

The Story of Manitoba Volume 2
"Brockest - story & photo"
http://www.openlibrary.org/details/storyofmanitoba02schouoft

Janice

[Janice M]

Manitoba Archives
http://vitalstats.gov.mb.ca/Query.php

University of Manitoba Archives
http://www.umanitoba.ca/libraries/online/

Janice

[casram]

Thanks for those links Janice. I was interested in the Brodest name rather than the company. I am setting up a one-name study of the surname and its variants.

Carolyn

[J.J.]

Oh, Janice, all that work...it is the surname Brodest     

That is an unusually rare name...
Here is a mention of a Brodist which must be a variation on the name http://tinyurl.com/2hr3pt

also a BRODST family listed on the 1880 for U.S....but you'll have to look at ancestry to see if they continue as that name...
also ancestry has some BRODEST in Kings County, NY & Crawford, Kansas, Pottawattamie, Iowa & lots in  Philadelphia, PA ( also a few as Brodist in PA)