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This 1881 view of the west side of Main Street north of Broadway shows the North West Omnibus and Transfer Company in the stable originally owned by Connell & Burke.
Source:
Panoramic view of east and west side of [Main] street. Published by H.C. Strong. Archives Manitoba, Winnipeg - Streets - Main - 1881 1 (Negatives N9934 to N9942).
Winnipeg Cab History / 4
Ham McMicken (1)
One of the early Winnipeg stables was built by Michael Connell and Redmond Burke in 1877. It was located on the west side of Main Street north of Broadway Avenue.
Between 1879 and 1882 the stable was the headquarters of Ham McMicken's North West Omnibus and Transfer Company.
Hamilton Grant McMicken (1852-1919) was the son of Gilbert McMicken, Canada's first spymaster and Sir John A. MacDonald's right hand man in Manitoba. On Gilbert's recommendation Ham was entrusted with bringing a trunkful of five and ten dollar bills to Winnipeg to finance federal government operations in the new province.
[The] money was put in an ordinary trunk with one shirt and an old pair of pants. I checked the trunk through to Fargo, and in that place I put it on the stage. The town was full of cut-throats and thieves, a railway construction town on the frontier, and I thought it lucky to get through without trouble. I sat right on the trunk for three days on the way to Winnipeg, and arrived safely on the first of April in 1873.