Pitman Business College

PITMAN BUSINESS COLLEGE, located for many years in a historic building at the corner of Broadway and Granville St in VANCOUVER, is one of the city's oldest businesses. It was founded as a school for typing and shorthand in 1898 by Frank Richards and his daughter Eveline, who ran it for 43 years. Ownership of the company remained with the Richards family until 1991; that year it was bought by Marie Tomko, herself a graduate of the school. In 2001 Tomko sold Pitman to Mosaic Technologies, a New...

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