On a recent road trip, I stopped in at the hamlet of Cardale, Manitoba. One structure that caught my eye was the former McTavish Motors building.
According to the book History of Blanshard Municipality Vol. III, McTavish Motors was established around 1915 by T J McTavish as an insurance business. It soon expanded to sell gasoline, oil, and car parts. it eventually became an Esso service station.
In the late 1920s the family moved into the trucking business delivering everything from cream to gravel to surrounding towns and added a tractor and implements shop.
The building was expanded a number of times to house the new business interests.
In 1946, T J and his son Lorne bought a Ford Dealership and sold cars, tractors, implements and parts. In 1984, the year the book was written, it was still a Ford parts shop and sold Morris equipment.
An ad in the Shoal Lake Star notes that the retirement auction sale of the business took place on April 19, 1985.
Lorne McTavish died in 1999.
More of my images of Cardale, MB.
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