Publisher = Bulman Bros. & Co.

Selling off the now empty lot in January 1905. Winnipeg Tribune, January 19, 1905, p. 8.

July 9, 1904, page 14 ... the Bulman Bros. block is shown here. I'm a bit confused by the timeline with the Bulman Bros. block as something clearly existed on the site for several years prior to this (see other clippings). Maybe the additional storeys had just been added (actually that is clear from the cutline which I didn't look at closely enough!). In any event, it was all to go up in smoke just 3 months later in one of the biggest fires in Winnipeg's history (fanned by all the printing chemicals). Anyway, I've never seen what this building looked like before ... if it only reached this size in mid-1904 that is probably why as it would have existed only very briefly.

Winnipeg Free Press, March 14, 1906, p. 2. -- At this point it gets kind of strange since the new Bulman Bros. seems to be on the site of the old one. At least it is on the same intersection, and it's hard to see which other corner it could have been on. This is odd because there is no building there now and the story that is always told is that no buliding ever sat on that site after the 1904 fire that destroyed the 7-storey Bulman Bros. block.

June 2, 1899, p. 6. The Winnipeg Tribune updates us on the activities of the city's architects, including what appears to be a contract for the construction of the Bulman Block (perhaps in an initially smaller form).

Winnipeg Tribune, October 29, 1904, p. 11, gives an account of just how fast the Bulman Bros. were able to come up with a replacement building. The new 12,000 sq ft building is already well along barely three weeks after the disastrous fire.