E.B. Horsman & Son: The Early Days

Looking Back

July 29, 2020

In the early fall of 1900, Edward Bodwell Horsman travelled from Hamilton, Ontario to Moosomin, Saskatchewan to help his son, George Dennis Horsman, purchase a hardware store. George Dennis Horsman was only 20 and was too young to make the purchase himself. For seven years EBH made Saskatchewan its home until moving to Vancouver in 1907.

The hardware business prospered. After Thomas Edison invented the incandescent lamp, a whole range of electrical materials swept North America. In 1923, George Dennis decided, with good insight, to open a small electrical supply division. Within two years, business being so successful, he decided to drop the balance of the hardware business and become an electrical wholesaler.

Learn more about how, as an electrical supplier, distributor and wholesaler, the company grew to have BC’s largest branch network: ebhorsman.com/about-us-history

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