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Business in Calgary is a monthly publication dedicated to producing intelligent, colorful articles about the people, trends and events that make Calgary a prominent business centre in the west.
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Longevity keeps a family tradition thriving almost 75 years later
He joined the Canadian Merchant Navy in 1944 and
served two convoys as a lieutenant in Vancouver –
the fi rst wireless operator for the Navy – before Ernie
Sissons moved to Calgary in 1948 and fell in love. He married
Caryl Wanner the following year and began his career in
the furniture business when he joined the Heintzman Piano
Co., but was later hired on as a sales manager for McArthur
Fine Furniture, a business that was fi rst established in 1938
by Gerry McArthur.
It was also a move that would lay the foundation for a
legacy in small business in this city that is approaching 75
years of longevity next year. His competitive, honest and
humorous nature helped make the small furniture company
a thriving success as Calgary grew up to what it is today.
He bought the business outright from McArthur in 1963.
“He was a really good salesperson,” says Robert Pound, who
is now the general manager of McArthur Fine Furniture’s
recent Airdrie addition. He manages the company with his
brother, Darin Pound, who is general manager of the fi rm’s
main location in Glenbrook, a community in southwest Calgary
that was fi rst annexed by the City of Calgary in the
1950s.
The Pound brothers are in the transition of taking full
ownership of McArthur’s from their mother, Theresa, who
took over control of the company from Sissons in the late
1990s with the Pound’s uncles, Ken and Michael Sissons.
View company anniversary profiles here.
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