George Allen Maybee [35769]

  General Notes:

From the Maybee Society files. Not all data is verified. Say dates are estimates and are probably within 20 years. The Maybee Society keeps its data on The Master Genealogist�, and has been modified by Gary Hester?s WIT2NOTE� to form the GedCom file. This information is also available in a TMG file.

  Noted events in his life were:

• No Name, 1881, Eldon, Victoria County, Ontario, Canada. ⁹¹²² George Allen Maybee appeared on the census of 1881 in the
household of George Allen Maybee and Abigail Irish Eldon,
Victoria County, Ontario, Canada

• No Name, 1891. ⁴³³ George Allen Maybee was mentioned when George Allen Maybee 's
will was probated 1891 . "Son George willed Lot 1,2 Con 4
Thorah Tp , and daughter Caroline willed Lot 1 Con 1 Eldon Tp,
Ont and Woodville Vill Lot #6"

• No Name, 1891, Woodville Village, Victoria County, Ontario, Canada. ⁹¹²³ George Allen Maybee appeared on the census of 1891 in the
household of Abigail Irish Woodville Village, Victoria County,
Ontario, Canada

• Land, Bet 1897 and 1905, Lot 23, 24 North of John Street, Woodville, , Ontario, Canada. ⁴³³ owned

• Census, 1901, Brandon City, , Manitoba, Canada. ⁹¹²⁶ 13 Maybee A. George lodger May 23 1873 Ontario

• No Name, 1911, Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada. ⁹¹²⁷ George Allen Maybee and Margaret Shearer Black appeared on the
census of 1911 Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada20 Maybee Geo A M
Head M May 1873 38 1901
21 Maybee Margaret F F Wife M Dec 1873 37 1901
22 Maybee Allan Wellington M Son S Oct 1910 8/12m

• Memo, 1924, Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada. ⁹¹²⁵ Ambition, diligence, initiative and resourcefulness have been
the four outstanding features of the exceptionally interesting
career of George A. Maybee, today the president and general
manager of the largest wholesale firm in Western Canada dealing
in shoes and men's furnishings. Wealth and position played no
part in his early career, for he was left an orphan as a young
boy without any near relatives who could take the place of the
father and mother he lost. His opportunities he made himself;
he did not wait for them to knock. Beginning as a clerk in a
store and equipped with scarcely more than the minimum of
education, he has advanced stead- ily, though at first slowly,
to a position of leadership in the trade circles of this
province and has an influence that is felt throughout the
Canadian west. The son of George A and Abigild (Irish) Maybee,
George A. Maybee was born on the 23d of May, 1873, in
Woodville, Victoria county, Ontario, in the house in which his
mother was born. Both his parents were natives of that province
and lived there all of their lives. The father was a private
banker and broker by occupation, a Liberal in politics and
fraternally identified with the United Workmen. After the
death of his parents George A. Maybee of this review was cared
for by the board of the Methodist church, which had been the
church of his father and mother during their lifetime. In
addition to the work of the common schools he was given a
two-year course in a high school, after which he set out to
earn his own way in the world. His first position was that of a
clerk in a general store, at which he worked for four years,
following which he went to Saint Catharines and there spent
four more years clerking in a shoe store, and began to learn
something of the shoe trade-knowledge that was to be very
valuable to him in after years. From Saint Catharines Mr.
Maybee came west to Brandon and obtained a position as a clerk
in a store, and after thus serving for nine months he acquired
some stock in the company, starting out in a small way as a
partner in the business. Fifteen years ago he came to Moose
Jaw, where he bought a third interest in the firm of Mitchell &
Hembroff, which thereupon became Mitchell, Hembroff & Maybee.
This was a gent's furnishing concern doing a retail business.
The second year he was in the company it opened a wholesale
branch, which grew to be the most important part of the
business. Much of its success was due to Mr. Maybee's work as a
traveling salesman, for he went on the road and represented his
firm during the period that this wholesale business was being
worked up. Ten years ago he bought out the interests of Mr.
Mitchell and Mr. Hembroff and in 1916 disposed of the retail
department in order to concentrate his entire energy upon the
rapidly growing wholesale trade. He now distributes shoes and
men's furnishings, exclusively, conducting the largest business
of the kind in western Canada. Mr. Maybee is the president and
general manager of the firm, which is capitalized at three
hundred thousand dollars; Clifford Baird is vice president and
sales manager; Mack Cockrane is secretary; and Robert Martyn is
treasurer. In addition to these officers the name of M. S.
Maybee appears on the board of directors. The concern owns its
building, a four-story reinforced concrete structure of
fireproof construction. In its erection all the modern
scientific fireproof and fire-resisting methods of construction
and materials were employed, so that it is now insured at the
lowest rates in effect in the entire province. The company is,
at the present time, the distributing agent for the Partridge
Rubber Goods, Hurlbert Shoes, Kant Krack Kollars, Snag Proof
Overalls, Lang Shirts, Hucks Gloves, Knitwell Underwear,
Telford & Child's Mackinaws, Ever- wear Shoes, Tuxedo Shoes,
Rhoda Shoes, and Sturdy Shoes. These lines are now carried by
seven of Mr. Maybee's traveling salesmen, who are kept busy all
of the time covering Saskatchewan, Alberta and British
Columbia. On the 14th of August, 1903, Mr. Maybee was married
to Miss Margaret Shearer Black of Saint Catharines, Ontario.
Mrs. Maybee was educated there, where she spent most of her
girlhood. Mr. and Mrs. Maybee have a son: George Edward, five
years of age. The Maybees are members of the Methodist church.
Mrs. Maybee is especially interested in social work for girls
and young women and for several years has been the president of
the local Young Women's Christian Association. Mr. Maybee's
social work has been done in the Masonic order, in which he is
identified with the York Rite and the Scottish Rite and he is a
Noble of the Mystic Shrine, and also belongs to the independent
Order of Odd Fellows, with which he has been associated for
twenty-three years. His influence has been a potent factor in
the development of these two fraternities along constructive
lines in this city and he will ever be regarded as one of their
most valuable members. He is likewise a member of the Rotary
Club and the Prairie Club of Moose Jaw. Farming is his "hobby"
and he takes almost as much pride in the fact that his farm is
one of the finest in Saskatchewan as in his enormous business
organization. The chief feature of his farm is a herd of
twenty-six full-blooded Herefords, the finest in the Dominion,
which are the basis of his cattle-raising activities. He raises
and sells this pure-bred stock and in this connection has been
active in raising the standards of farm stock throughout this
section, a movement that is of no slight significance in the
history of agriculture in western Canada. In all of his
accomplishments one can see evidences of Mr. Maybee's
outstanding ability as an executive. He possesses that rare
power to in- spire confidence in others and harmonize varied
interests so as to achieve cooperation on all sides. While he
says, most generously, in his praise of his fellow workers,
that he has the most loyal staff of assistants that any man
ever had, the onlooker is a bit inclined to wonder if this
exceptional loyalty is not inspired by an exceptional man

• No Name, 1924, Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada. ⁹¹²⁵ George Allen Maybee Ambition, diligence, initiative and
resourcefulness have been the four outstanding features of the
exceptionally interesting career of George A. Maybee, today the
president and general manager of the largest wholesale firm in
Western Canada dealing in shoes and men's furnishings. Wealth
and position played no part in his early career, for he was
left an orphan as a young boy without any near relatives who
could take the place of the father and mother he lost. His
opportunities he made himself; he did not wait for them to
knock. Beginning as a clerk in a store and equipped with
scarcely more than the minimum of education, he has advanced
stead- ily, though at first slowly, to a position of leadership
in the trade circles of this province and has an influence that
is felt throughout the Canadian west. The son of George A and
Abigild (Irish) Maybee, George A. Maybee was born on the 23d of
May, 1873, in Woodville, Victoria county, Ontario, in the house
in which his mother was born. Both his parents were natives of
that province and lived there all of their lives. The father
was a private banker and broker by occupation, a Liberal in
politics and fraternally identified with the United Workmen.
After the death of his parents George A. Maybee of this review
was cared for by the board of the Methodist church, which had
been the church of his father and mother during their lifetime.
In addition to the work of the common schools he was given a
two-year course in a high school, after which he set out to
earn his own way in the world. His first position was that of a
clerk in a general store, at which he worked for four years,
following which he went to Saint Catharines and there spent
four more years clerking in a shoe store, and began to learn
something of the shoe trade-knowledge that was to be very
valuable to him in after years. From Saint Catharines Mr.
Maybee came west to Brandon and obtained a position as a clerk
in a store, and after thus serving for nine months he acquired
some stock in the company, starting out in a small way as a
partner in the business. Fifteen years ago he came to Moose
Jaw, where he bought a third interest in the firm of Mitchell &
Hembroff, which thereupon became Mitchell, Hembroff & Maybee.
This was a gent's furnishing concern doing a retail business.
The second year he was in the company it opened a wholesale
branch, which grew to be the most important part of the
business. Much of its success was due to Mr. Maybee's work as a
traveling salesman, for he went on the road and represented his
firm during the period that this wholesale business was being
worked up. Ten years ago he bought out the interests of Mr.
Mitchell and Mr. Hembroff and in 1916 disposed of the retail
department in order to concentrate his entire energy upon the
rapidly growing wholesale trade. He now distributes shoes and
men's furnishings, exclusively, conducting the largest business
of the kind in western Canada. Mr. Maybee is the president and
general manager of the firm, which is capitalized at three
hundred thousand dollars; Clifford Baird is vice president and
sales manager; Mack Cockrane is secretary; and Robert Martyn is
treasurer. In addition to these officers the name of M. S.
Maybee appears on the board of directors. The concern owns its
building, a four-story reinforced concrete structure of
fireproof construction. In its erection all the modern
scientific fireproof and fire-resisting methods of construction
and materials were employed, so that it is now insured at the
lowest rates in effect in the entire province. The company is,
at the present time, the distributing agent for the Partridge
Rubber Goods, Hurlbert Shoes, Kant Krack Kollars, Snag Proof
Overalls, Lang Shirts, Hucks Gloves, Knitwell Underwear,
Telford & Child's Mackinaws, Ever- wear Shoes, Tuxedo Shoes,
Rhoda Shoes, and Sturdy Shoes. These lines are now carried by
seven of Mr. Maybee's traveling salesmen, who are kept busy all
of the time covering Saskatchewan, Alberta and British
Columbia. On the 14th of August, 1903, Mr. Maybee was married
to Miss Margaret Shearer Black of Saint Catharines, Ontario.
Mrs. Maybee was educated there, where she spent most of her
girlhood. Mr. and Mrs. Maybee have a son: George Edward, five
years of age. The Maybees are members of the Methodist church.
Mrs. Maybee is especially interested in social work for girls
and young women and for several years has been the president of
the local Young Women's Christian Association. Mr. Maybee's
social work has been done in the Masonic order, in which he is
identified with the York Rite and the Scottish Rite and he is a
Noble of the Mystic Shrine, and also belongs to the independent
Order of Odd Fellows, with which he has been associated for
twenty-three years. His influence has been a potent factor in
the development of these two fraternities along constructive
lines in this city and he will ever be regarded as one of their
most valuable members. He is likewise a member of the Rotary
Club and the Prairie Club of Moose Jaw. Farming is his "hobby"
and he takes almost as much pride in the fact that his farm is
one of the finest in Saskatchewan as in his enormous business
organization. The chief feature of his farm is a herd of
twenty-six full-blooded Herefords, the finest in the Dominion,
which are the basis of his cattle-raising activities. He raises
and sells this pure-bred stock and in this connection has been
active in raising the standards of farm stock throughout this
section, a movement that is of no slight significance in the
history of agriculture in western Canada. In all of his
accomplishments one can see evidences of Mr. Maybee's
outstanding ability as an executive. He possesses that rare
power to in- spire confidence in others and harmonize varied
interests so as to achieve cooperation on all sides. While he
says, most generously, in his praise of his fellow workers,
that he has the most loyal staff of assistants that any man
ever had, the onlooker is a bit inclined to wonder if this
exceptional loyalty is not inspired by an exceptional man 1924
Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada

George married on 19 Aug 1903 in Saint Catherines, Lincoln County, Ontario, Canada.⁹¹²⁴

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Census, 1906, Brandon, Manitoba, Canada. ⁹¹²⁸ Maybee, George, Husband, M, M, 39, Ontario
Maybee, Margaret, Wife, F, M, 33, Ontario
Black, Archibald, Boarder, M, S, 18, Ontario

• Census, 1911, Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada. ⁹¹²⁷ 20 Maybee Geo A M Head M May 1873 38 1901
21 Maybee Margaret F F Wife M Dec 1873 37 1901
22 Maybee Allan Wellington M Son S Oct 1910 8/12m

  Marriage Notes:

George Allan Maybee, 30, merchant, Woodsville, Brandon Man.,
s/o George A. Maybee & Abigail Irish, married Margaret Shearer
Black, not given, Ontario, St. Catharines, d/o J. K. Black &
Magdalene Crane, witn: Lolla Crane of Petrolia & W. A. Black of
St. Catharines