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Walker Avenue

Number	Year(s)	Occupant
696	1925	J. H. Brenton (1898-?)

Walnut Street

Number	Year(s)	Occupant
64	?-1928	John [McLean/MacLean] Maclean (1851-1928)
120	1911-?	William Fingland (1862-1946)
152	?-1932	Howard Alexander Dangerfield (1871-1932)
194	?-1933	Spencer Argyle Bedford (1851-1933)
203	1928	William David Ruttan (1849-1928)

Wardlaw Avenue (formerly Wardlow Avenue)

Number	Year(s)	Occupant
384	1904-1905	Hugh Northcote Baird (1877-1948)
	1906-1916	Duncan Donald Young (1859-1927)
391	1911	John Thompson Huggard (1867-1938)
403	1934	Donald D. Campbell (1850-1934)
406	?-1916	Alexander A. Aird (1855-1916)
412	1911	Neil T. MacMillan (1877-1931)
418	1944	Victor G. Williams (1872-1944)
423	1930	Orton Irwin Grain (1863-1930)
481	?-1922	Thomas Llewellyn Metcalfe (1870-1922)
515	?-1923	Henry Follett Anderson (1863-1923)
544	1931	Geoffrey Henry Walker (1858-1931)
626	1936	Thomas Richard Billett (1863-1936)

Warsaw Avenue

Number	Year(s)	Occupant
726	1942	John Kidd Bell (?-1942)
749	?-1937	Thomas Vincent Pemble Smith (1861-1937)
777	1913-1954	William Parker Fillmore (1882-1978)
848	?-1917	John Christie Hicks (1856-1917)
856	?-1959	Joseph Marshall (1876-1959)

Washington Avenue

Number	Year(s)	Occupant
398	?	Stanley Dowhan (1927-1993)

Waterloo Street

Number	Year(s)	Occupant
61	?	John Thomas Boyd (1885-1950)
81	?-1947	James Andrew Dowler (1880-1947)
90	1944	Ewart Carlton Stovel (1889-1944)
222	?-1956	David Grant Potter (1893-1956)
391	?-1963	Carson Ephram Abercrombie (1900-1963)

Waverley Street

Number	Year(s)	Occupant
83	1939	Elvin Clark McMurray (1891-1939)
227	?-1931	Wesley Wright Pirt (1881-1931)
249	?-1932	Charles Hosmer McNaughton (1861-1932)
263	1949	Charles H. McFadyen (1889-1949)
299	1950	Stephen Elswood Richards (1878-1950)
325	?-1966	George Henry Herriot (c1882-1966)
365	?-1953	Matthew Archibald Parker (1871-1953)
433	1960	Earl Ira Cummings (c1896-1960)

Wellington Crescent

Number	Year(s)	Occupant
93	?-1915	William James Lindsay (1854-1915)
99	1911-1950	Harry Lee Willson (1870-1950)
105	1925	Donald McIvor Ross (1881-1925)
147	1911	Francis Lawrence “Frank” Patton (1857-1932)
155	1911	William Lee Ball (1851-1919)
221	?-1940	William Pearson (1865-1940)
	1945	Egerton Whimster Marlatt (1875-1945)
	?-1970	Paul Guyot DuVal (1893-1970)
	1970-1980	James Campbell Haig (1909-1980)
229	1931	William Dawson McBean (1861-1931)
237	1911	John Hamilton Gordon Russell (1863-1946)
245	1935	Max Steinkopf (1881-1935)
250	?-1928	William Henry Fares (1858-1928)
257	1934	D’alton Corry Coleman (1879-1956)
260	1943	William J. Boyd (1862-1943)
261	?-1965	John Stewart McDiarmid (1882-1965)
265	1925-?	John Alexander Gunn (1878-1960)
271	?-1980	Richard Lippincott Denison (1889-1980)
275	1911	William Henry Cross (1852-1928)
277	1911-1913	William C. Leistikow (1852-1913)
	1913-1921	Alexander “Sandy” Macdonald (1843-1928)
	1921-?	Norman George Heimbecker (1879-1963)
278	1931	Edward Martin Counsell (1872-1931)
280	1941	Clarence Nicholas Bawlf (1892-1941)
329	1908-1945	John Young Reid (1872-1945)
333	?	Dorinda Ball Mutchmor (1900-1982)
334	?	William Thornburn (1871-1944)
359	?-1935	Albert Edward Scott (1860-1935)
360	1925	Edward Anderson (1867-?)
365	1910-1942	William John Christie (1858-1942)
388	1908-1920s	Frederick W. Pace (1873-?)
393	1911	Mark Fortune (1847-1912)
402	?-1969	Solomon Hart Green (1885-1969)
408	c1913	Charles A. MacKenzie (1870-?)
460	1912-1918	George Frederick Galt (1855-1928)
	1928-?	James Stewart
475	1888-1918	John Henry Munson (1859-1918)
	?-1939	James Armstrong Richardson (1885-1939)
485	1909-?	Hugh Farquharson Osler (1881-1943)
514	1909-1919	James Thomas Gordon (1858-1919)
	1920-1936	William Richard Bawlf (1881-1972)
	1936-1961	Victor Sifton (1897-1961)
	1961-2016	Douglas Donald Everett (1927-2018)
515	1905-1920	Frank Morton Morse (1861-1931)
	1920-1947	Sidney Thomas Smith (1878-1947)
523	?-1962	William Henry Carter (1874-1962)
555	c1920-1930	John Charles Gage (1876-1930)
	1935-1936	Victor Sifton (1897-1961)
557	1905-1930	William Redford Mulock (1850-1930)
587	1928	Enoch Winkler (1852-1928)
603	?-1954	William Pitt Riley (1870-1954)
	?-1976	Joseph Harris (1892-1976)
611	1911-?	Edmund Landor Taylor (1860-1934)
	?-1928	Elmer Elsworth Hall (1865-1939)
638	1925	James Loughrin Bathgate (1872-1934)
642	1925	Fletcher S. Andrews (1869-1949)
645	1911-1933	Daniel Hunter McMillan (1846-1933)
657	1903-1924	William Andrew Windatt (1860-1924)
	1963	Hugh Phillipps (1875-1963)
662	1909-1937	Hector H. Bradburn (1872-1958)
674	1952	Samuel Rosner (1870-1952)
676	?-1962	George Newton McConnell (1894-1962)
680	1925-1937	Robert Richey Wilson (1856-1937)
686	1928-1937	Hector H. Bradburn (1872-1958)
697	?-1915	John Leslie (1852-1915)
	?-1944	Claude Percy Banning (1877-1944)
	1944-1956	?
	1956-1974	Richard Wilfred Queen-Hughes (1908-1970) and Katherine Gloria Queen-Hughes (1909-1978)
749	1905-1950	Alfred Joseph Andrews (1865-1950)
755	?-1941	William Arthur Irish (1872-1941)
761	c1935-1949	Norman Lawrence Leach (1876-1949)
	1953-1979	Augustus Searle Leach (1909-1993)
774	?-1940	Charles James Jamieson (1854-1940)
	1940-1976	Charles Norman Jamieson (1889-1976)
845	?-1955	John Edward Spear (1902-1955)
850	?-?	Alexander Edson Boyd (1912-1998)
870	c1925-1943	David Wesley Griffith (1879-1943)
875	c1961-1975	Frederick George “Steamer” Maxwell (1890-1975)
920	?-1949	Albert Stephen “Bert” Boulton (1887-1949)
928	?-1988	Richard Spink Bowles (1912-1988)
951	1935	Donald Waverley Dingwall (1881-1935)
980	?-1939	William A. Matheson (1859-1939)
1021	1933-1937	Fred Myer Sures (1885-1937)
	c1949	Harold Arthur Smith (son of Sidney T. Smith) and Josephine Fields Smith
	c1965	Theodore O. and Edna E. Peterson
	1966-1991	Aubrey J. Halter (1918-2008)
	?	Graham Sifton
	?	Asper family
1106	?-1968	Robert S. McCordick (1886-1968)
1195	1926-?	David Cooper (1888-1970)
1199	1960	Ralph Dennistoun Baker (1895-1960)
1230	?-1948	William Thomas Kennedy (1880-1948)
1234	1930s-1962	Louis J. Kennedy (1871-1962)
1325	?-1944	John Wesley Dafoe (1866-1944)
1421	?-1956	Arthur William Chapman (c1866-1956)
1464	?-1952	Robert James Shore (1883-1952)

West Gate

Number	Year(s)	Occupant
15	1940	James William Ackland (1866-1940)
25	c1949	McCrea Parker Blair (1882-1958)
30	c1949	Leonard Heaton
39	1925	James A. Davidson (1882-?)
66	c1949	Malcolm Alexander MacQueen (1884-1960)
79	?-1933	John Derby Brook (1862-1933)
85	1909-?	Arthur William Chapman (c1866-1956)
	?	David Low Mather (1855-1947)
86	?	Captain Kay
	c1949	George Duncan Wood (1858-1907)
97	1942	Thomas Leslie Waldon (1869-1942)
	c1949	Douglas Bulgin
112	1933	William Harvey (1864-1933)
	?-1940	Fawcett Gowler Taylor (1878-1940)
	c1949	Edward Rupert Whitehead (1910-2010)
115	?-?	Hunt Walsh Alan Chambre (1861-1943)
	c1949	Benjamin Cronyn Parker (1886-1951)
131	1933	David Horn (1849-1933)
	c1949	E. D. Honeyman
134	1911	Lendrum McMeans (1859-1941)
	1947	John Benning Monk (1856-1947)
137	?-?	William Wallace Blair (1852-1916)
	c1949	L. D. M. Baxter
146	?-1965	Jack St. John (1906-1965)
147	1925	Maxwell Heppner (1881-?)
	1949	Hodgson Wilberforce Hutchinson (1862-1949)
180	?-1925	Henry Norlande Ruttan (1848-1925)
186	1944	Robert Thomas Riley (1851-1944)

Westminster Avenue

Number	Year(s)	Occupant
631	?	George Andrew (1851-1929)
655	1925	William Alfred Bishop (1864-1928)
748	1937	Alexander McIntyre Blackburn (1870-1937)
752	?-1955	John Edgar McAllister (1867-1955)
754	1925	John Franklin Grundy (1861-1925)
759	1913-1950	Robert Thomas Hodgson (1864-1950)

Whytewold Road

Number	Year(s)	Occupant
291	1964	Clarence Garfield Keith (1881-1964)

Wilmot Place

Number	Year(s)	Occupant
59	1959	George Montegu Black (1875-1959)
77	1925	Henry Bruce Gordon (1855-1931)
112	1911	Melbourne Francis Christie (1864-1944)
120	1925	Thomas Leonard Hartley (1869-?)

William Avenue

Number	Year(s)	Occupant
529	1905	Leopold Kobold (1832-1905)
539	?-?	Alexander D. Melville (1873-1949)

Winchester Street

Number	Year(s)	Occupant
409	?-?	James Aiken (1888-1974)

Windermere Avenue

Number	Year(s)	Occupant
900	?-1963	Alan Charles “Huck” Woodman (1899-1963)

Wolseley Avenue

Number	Year(s)	Occupant
739	?-1917	Joseph Hector Tremblay (1878-1917)
788	1941	Jorun Hinrikson Lindal (1896-1941)
808	1911-?	Martha Jane Richards Hample (1859-1927)
867	?-?	Arinbjorn Sigurgeirsson Bardal (1866-1951)
1118	?-1949	Robert McKay (1879-1949)
1182	1948	Walter Burman (1880-1948)
1185	1925	Moses Finkelstein (1873-1939) Manley Finkelstein (1898-?)
1306	?-1953	Charles Morley Vanstone (1870-1953)

Woodhaven Boulevard

Number	Year(s)	Occupant
147	1925	William Alexander Dyer (1866-1931)
152	?-1949	David Alexander Best (1880-1949)
180	?-1948	John Willson Morrison (1883-1948)

Woodlawn

Number	Year(s)	Occupant
220	1925	W. D. Campbell (?-?)

Worthington Avenue

Number	Year(s)	Occupant
59	?-1961	James Duxbury (1873-1961)

Sources:

“Sells residence [277 Wellington],” Winnipeg Tribune, 7 March 1921, page 1.

“Once the district was called Armstrong’s Point – now it’s Eastgate, Middlegate and Westgate” by Lillian Gibbons, Winnipeg Tribune, 9 April 1949, page 14.

“Stately prominence: Wellington Crescent mansion ‘one of the great estates of Winnipeg’” by Gloria Taylor, Winnipeg Free Press, 19 September 2004, page E1 (41). [1021 Wellington Crescent]

We thank Joy Hodgkinson, Nathan Kramer, and Shawn Fay for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 19 November 2022