Charles Helyar

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Charles Murray Helyar (1909 - 1993) was a Canadian entrepreneur and founder of Furnasman, a heating company in Winnipeg, Manitoba and later in Vancouver.

Career

Furnasman, in the 1954 Henderson's Winnipeg Directory

His main business partner was Louis Dufault [1] [3] [4]

 He attended university, and became an owner of a furnace company, then a heating company, in Vancouver.

Personal Life

His first wife was Flora Heylar.

He married his second wife Anna Vidal in 1950; they stayed together until his death in 1993. [2]

Sources

[1] Lillias Bjornson, emails in 2026

[2] https://vancouversunandprovince.remembering.ca/obituary/anna-adamson-1065314756

[3] https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/236023142/louis-j-dufault

[4] https://habitantsandvoyageurs.blogspot.com/2011/01/