Memorable Manitobans: John Dolmer (1858-1949)

Building contractor, rancher.

After building several buildings around Winnipeg, he moved to California where he was a rancher. He and wife Alice Mary Dolmer (1870-1958) had two children: Robert Wilfred Dolmer (1894-1973) and Beatrice Violet Dormer (1902-1943, wife of ? Condit). He died at San Bernardino, California on 21 March 1949 and was buried in the Mountain View Cemetery.

Some of his building works in Manitoba included:

Building	Location	Year	Status
Robinson House	97 Nassau Street North, Winnipeg	1903
Bell Block (addition)	813-815 Main Street, Winnipeg	1905	Destroyed by fire (4 March 2023)
Canadian Bank of Commerce Building	325 Nairn Avenue, Winnipeg	1906
Canadian Bank of Commerce Building	1521 Logan Avenue, Winnipeg	1906
Dolmer House	324 Maryland Street, Winnipeg	1908
Bickle Court	600 Broadway, Winnipeg	1909
Enright Block (expansion)	189 Jarvis Avenue, Winnipeg	1909

See also:

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Dolmer House (324 Maryland Street, Winnipeg)

Sources:

“It saw it in The Tribune,” Winnipeg Tribune, 2 June 1925, page 3.

Obituary [Beatrice Violet Dormer Condit], San Bernardino Daily Sun, 10 April 1943, page 15.

Obituary, San Bernardino Daily Sun, 22 March 1949, page 7.

Obituary [Alice Mary Dolmer], San Bernardino Sun-Telegram, 17 August 1958, page B5.

Obituary [Robert Wilfred Dolmer], The Napa Register, 15 March 1973, page 14.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough and Darryl Toews.

Page revised: 28 February 2024

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