Manitoba Ambulance Services Roster
The following is a list of pre-2000 ambulance services in the Province of Manitoba.
The Manitoba Ambulance Operators Association was formed during the 1970s.
- Altona
- 1950s - Wiebe Funeral Home, Nick Wiebe
Altona Volunteer Fire Brigade had a 1954 Ford ambulance
- Arborg
- 1965 - A funeral home was providing service
1993 - Arborg & District Ambulance
- Ashern
- 1965 - Funeral home providing service
1980 - Lloyd Barnes operated Ashern Ambulance
- Baldur
- 1985 - Baldur Ambulance Service
- Balmoral
- 1965 - Funeral home providing service
- Beausejour
- 1965 - Russell Funeral Home
1984 - Beausejour & District Ambulance Service
- Benito
- 1963 - Local businessman providing service
- Birtle
- 1979 - Birtle & District Ambulance Service
- Bissett
- 1998 - Bissett Community Ambulance
- Boissevain
- 1979 - Boissevain & District Ambulance
- Brandon
- 1936 - Brandon Fire Dept. operated Brandon General Hospital's ambulance
1941 - Commonwealth Air Training Base had ambulances
1963 - Alert Ambulance Service
1965 - Brandon Fire Dept.
Marquette Regional Health Authority
- Carberry
- 1984 - Carberry Ambulance
- Carman
- 1965 - Someone in the community was providing ambulance service
1980 - Carman Hospital Ambulance
- Cartwright
- 1975 - Cartwright & District Ambulance
- Churchill
- 1965 - Churchill Hospital was running two former military ambulances
1980s - Churchill Volunteer Ambulance Service
- Cranberry Portage
- 1965 - A local merchant was operating an ambulance
1998 - Cranberry Portage Ambulance
- Cross Lake
- 1988 - Cross Lake Fire & Rescue Ambulance
- Crystal City
- 1965 - Had an ambulance service
1984 - Rock Lake Ambulance
- Dauphin
- 1965 - Riverside Funeral Home
1965 - Sneath - Strilchuk Funeral Home
1980 - Dauphin & District Ambulance
- Deloraine
- 1965 - Hospital run service
- Easterville
- 1988 - Chemawawin First Nation Ambulance
- Elie
- 1980s - Cartier Ambulance
- Elk Horn
- 1985 - Elk Horn & District Volunteer Ambulance
- Emerson
- 1951 - Volunteer fire dept. operated Emerson Hospital's ambulance
- Ethelbert
- 1987 - Ethelbert Embulance
- Falcon Lake
- 1986 - Falcon Lake EMS
- Fisher
- 1986 - Peguis Ambulance
- Fisher River
- 1965 - Federally owned hospital had an ambulance to transport treaty Indians
- Flin Flon
- 1965 - Local taxi company provided ambulance service
1965 - Hudson Bay Mining & Smelting Company ambulance
1972 - Flin Flon General Hospital ambulance
- Gilbert Plaine
- 1982 - Village & R. M. of Gilbert Plaine Ambulance
- Gillam
- 1985 - Gillam Volunteer Fire Dept.
- Gimli
- 1965 - Kinsmen Club operated a volunteer ambulance service
1974 - Interlake Ambulance Service
1978 - Johnson Memorial Hospital
- Gladstone
- 1961 - Hammond Funeral Service began ambulance service
1976 - Gladstone Volunteer Ambulance Service
1977 - Seven Regions Health Centre took over
- Glenboro
- 1949 to 1985 - Jamieson's Ambulance Service, Bill Jamieson
- Grand Rapids
- 1965 - Manitoba Hydro Electric Board
1986 - Grand Rapids Ambulance
- Grandview
- 1989 - Grandview Ambulance
- Gypsumville
- 2002 - Gypsumville EMS
- Hadashville
- 1998 - Reynold's Ambulance
- Hamiota
- 1942 - Campbell Funeral Home began
McConnell Brothers Funeral Home had a 1960 Chevrolet ambulance
1971 - Hospital took over ambulance service
1980s - Hamiota District Health Centre Ambulance Service
- Hartney
- 1965 - Local garage operator was providing ambulance service
- Holland
- 1935 - Scharff's Funeral Home began
1978 - Treherne Hospital took over
- Kelwood
- 1965 - Funeral home provides ambulance service
- Killarney
- 1965 - Killarney Hospital providing service
- La Riviere
- 1965 - Someone was providing ambulance service
- Lac Du Bonnet
- 1980s - Lac Du Bonnet Volunteer Ambulance
- Leaf Rapids
- 1984 - Leaf Rapids Ambulance Service
- Lundar
- 1965 - Lundar Volunteer Fire Brigade
1998 - Eastshore Ambulance Service
- Lynn Lake
- 1965 - Sherritt Gordon Mines provided ambulance service from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM and a local trucking firm provided service from 5:00 PM to 8:00 AM
- MacGregor
- 1978 - Volunteer Ambulance Brigade began
1985 - MacGregor & District Ambulance
- Manitou
- 1965 - Someone in the community was providing service
1998 - Manitou Pembina Ambulance
- McCreary
- 1998 - McCreary Ambulance
- Melita
- 1965 - Funeral home was providing service
1980 - Melita & Area Ambulance Service
- Minnedosa
- 1935 - White's Funeral Home, W. Bullmore
1935 - Lodge & Sons Funeral Home
1936 - Fusee-McFeetors Co., Alf. A. Duxbury
1950s - Weir's Funeral Home & Ambulance
1982 - Minnedosa / Erickson Ambulance Service
- Morden
- 1950s - Wiebe Funeral Home, Nick Wiebe
1980 - Morden District Ambulance
- Morris
- 1986 - Morris Volunteer Ambulance
- Neepawa
- 1935 to 1975 - White's Funeral Home, John White
1935 - Lodge & Sons Funeral Home
1936 - Fusee-McFeetors Co., Alf. A. Duxbury
1975 to 2005 - Forsman Ambulance Service, Ron Forsman
- Nelson House
- 1990s - Nelson House Cree Nation Medi-Vac Ambulance
- Norway House
- 1998 Norway House Ambulance
- Notre Dame de Lourdes
- 1980 - Clem Adam's Funeral Home
1984 - Mountain Ambulance Service
- Oak Lake
- 1998 - Oaklake Ambulance
- Oakbank
- Springfield Ambulance Service had a 1960 Pontiac
1985 - Springfield R. M. Ambulance
- Pinawa
- 1965 - Someone in the community was providing ambulance service
1982 - Atomic Energy of Canada provided the community with ambulance service
1987 - Pinawa Hospital Ambulance
1998 - Winnipeg River Ambulance
- Pine Falls
- 1965 - Someone had an ambulance
1985 - Pine Falls & District Ambulance
- Portage La Prairie
- 1930s - Portage La Prairie Funeral Chapel
1960s - Trimble Funeral Home
1967 - Malcolm Stanley and Ron Moffit begin Malron Ambulance Service
1980 - Robin Taylor purchased Malron and renamed it Portage Ambulance
2004 - Central Manitoba Regional Health Authority took over
- Reston
- 1987 - Reston District Ambulance
- Rivers
- 1965 - Rivers Volunteer Fire Dept.
1965 - Royal Canadian Air Force base had three military ambulances
1986 - Rivers & District Ambulance
- Riverton
- 1987 - Riverton & District Ambulance Service
- Roblin
- 1981 - Roblin District Ambulance
- Rock Glen
- Had a 1980 Ford ambulance
- Russell
- 1965 - Canadian Legion operated an ambulance
1981 - Russell & District Ambulance
- Sanford
- 1985 - Rural Municipality of MacDonald Ambulance
- Selkirk
- Gilbart Funeral Home
1965 - Selkirk Mental Hospital had an ambulance
1968 - Selkirk Funeral Home, Richard Hooker
1974 - Malron Ambulance of Portage took over Gilbart Funeral Home's ambulance service but quit two months later when their request for a City subsidy was rejected
1981 - Selkirk General Hospital Ambulance
- Shoal Lake
- 1965 - Local funeral home was providing service
1998 - Shoal Lake / Strathclair Ambulance
- Snow Lake
- 1965 - Hudson Bay Mining & Smelting had a 4-wheel drive Jeep ambulance
1998 - Snow Lake Hospital Ambulance
- Souris
- 1965 - Local funeral director
1980 - Souris District Hospital Board Ambulance
- St. Claude
- 1998 - St. Claude Ambulance
- St. Martin
- 1998 - Northern Interlake Ambulance
- St. Pierre
- 1983 - DeSalaberry & District Ambulance
- Ste. Anne
- Had a 1952 Cadillac ambulance
1988 - Riviera Seine River Ambulance
- Ste. Rose du Lac
- 1965 - Local funeral director
1987 - Ste. Rose & District Ambualnce
- Steinbach
- 1965 - Bethesda Hospital
- Stonewall
- Local funeral director
1975 - Stonewall & District Ambulance Service began
- Swan Lake
- 1986 - Lorne Memorial Hospital
- Swan River
- 1963 - Paull Funeral Home quit providing ambulance service
1965 - Lorne Halliday began Halliday's Ambulance Service
- Teulon
- 1965 - Local baker provides ambulance service
1983 - Teulon & District Ambulance
- The Pas
- 1917 The Pas had a horse-drawn ambulance
1965 - Local funeral director provided service
1965 - RCMP operate a patrol wagon that doubles as an ambulance
1979 - Opasquia Ambulance Service
1992 - Regional Health District takes over
- Thompson
- 1965 - Local Government District provides service
1965 - International Nickel Company has an ambulance
1998 - Thompson Ambulance
- Treherne
- 1978 - Treherne Hospital Ambulance
1980 - Tiger Hills Ambulance
- Victoria Beach
- 1998 - Victoria Beach Ambulance
- Virden
- 1965 - Virden Hospital Ambulance
- Vita
- 1989 - Vita & District Ambulance
- Wabowden
- Had a 1978 suburban ambulance
1998 - Wabowden Community Ambulance
- Waterhen
- 1980s - Waterhen Ambulance
- Wawanesa
- Had a 1975 Cadillac ambulance
1988 - Wawanesa Ambulance Service
- Whitemouth
- 1989 -Whitemouth & District Ambulance
- Winkler
- 1950s - Wiebe Funeral Home, Nick Wiebe
- 1950s - Wiebe's Funeral Home, Nick Wiebe
1965 Winkler Fire Dept.
- Winnipeg
- 1889 - Winnipeg General Hospital had a horse-drawn ambulance
1906 - Bardal Funeral Home began ambulance service
1913 - Desjardins Funeral Home began in St. Boniface
1915 - Thomson Funeral Home was providing ambulance service
1935 - Winnipeg Municipal Hospitals had an ambulance
Rural Municipality of East Kildonan had a 1945 ex-army truck ambulance
Kerr's Funeral Home had a 1947 Chrysler ambulance
1920s to 1975 - City of Winnipeg Police Dept. operated ambulances
1950s? - Veterans Ambulance Service
1950s? - Prince Brothers Ambulance
1960? - Brothers Henry and Bill Leiman and brother-in-law Norm Warren purchased Veterans Ambulance and Prince Brothers Ambulance and formed Veterans-Prince. They also used trade names: Astorian, Crestview, Professional, St. James, Irish and 7 Oaks.
1960? - Don Irish formed Irish Ambulance and in the mid '60s sold to Veterans-Prince.
1960 - Gerald Maeren started Metropolitan Ambulance. He also used the trade names AAA, Amalgamated, Metro-Assiniboia, Metro-Fort Garry, Metro-West Kildonan, North Winnipeg-West Kildonan and St. Boniface
1960s - Saint Francis-Norwood Ambulance, Charles Berard
1960s - Don Irish started Reliable Ambulance, then purchased St. Francis
1965 - City of St. James Police were operating an ambulance
1966 - Ken Burdyny expanded his towing service and formed Riverview & Kildonan Ambulance
1966 - John Wylie formed Wylie's Rescue Ambulance
1967? - Doug James operated 7 Oaks Ambulance
1968 - The Leach Brothers ran a towing service and formed United Ambulance
1970 - Deer Lodge Hospital Ambulance was only used for veterans
1975 - City of Winnipeg took over all ambulances in the city. There were seven private services operating 17 vehicles and two police departments with several ambulances.
1998 - Certified Stretcher Service
- Winnipegosis
- 1986 - Winnipegosis & District Ambulance
