Born at Osgoode Station, Ontario on 30 November 1883, son of carpenter Samuel Baldry and Sarah Ellen York, he came to Winnipeg in 1906. He worked in the building trade, eventually being President of the Baldry Engineering and Construction Company. On 16 June 1909, he married Beatrice Helena Christina Simpson (1881-1967) at Winnipeg and they had two children: George Simpson Baldry (1913-?) and Ruth Elizabeth Baldry (1917-?). He was a member of Young United Church, Masons (Prince Rupert Lodge), and St. Boniface Kiwanis Club (President). He died suddenly at St. Norbert on 17 October 1959 and was buried in the Brookside Cemetery.
Some of his construction works in Manitoba included:
Building
Location
Year
Status
285 College Avenue, Winnipeg
1909
74 Spence Street, Winnipeg
1910
Cornwall Apartments
265 River Avenue, Winnipeg
1911
Demolished (?)
812 Wolseley Avenue, Winnipeg
1912
796 Wolseley Avenue, Winnipeg
1913
28 Woodrow Place, Winnipeg
1914
860 Westminster Avenue, Winnipeg
1913
Clayton Apartments (completion)
86 Young Street, Winnipeg
1917
Winchester Apartments
760 Wolseley Avenue, Winnipeg
1926
Dorchester Court (expansion)
162-166 Lilac Street, Winnipeg
1928
Woodhaven School No. 2093 (foundation)
127 Glendale Boulevard, Winnipeg
1936
Ontario birth registration, Ancestry.
Birth and marriage registrations, Manitoba Vital Statistics.
“Couple celebrate 50th anniversary,” Winnipeg Tribune, 19 June 1959, page 13.
Obituary, Winnipeg Tribune, 19 October 1959, page 29.
Obituary [Beatrice Helena Christina Simpson Baldry], Winnipeg Free Press, 14 January 1967, page 37.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 19 March 2022
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