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
97 Nassau Street North, Winnipeg
1903
Bell Block (addition)
813-815 Main Street, Winnipeg
1905
Destroyed by fire (4 March 2023)
325 Nairn Avenue, Winnipeg
1906
1521 Logan Avenue, Winnipeg
1906
Manor Hotel (addition)
692-694 Main Street, Winnipeg
1907
Demolished (?)
324 Maryland Street, Winnipeg
1908
600 Broadway, Winnipeg
1909
Driscoll House (John J. Driscoll)
779 Grosvenor Avenue, Winnipeg
1909
Demolished (?)
Enright Block (expansion)
189 Jarvis Avenue, Winnipeg
1909
200 Berry Street, Winnipeg
1912
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Dolmer House (324 Maryland Street, Winnipeg)
City of Winnipeg Building Permit 2207/1907 [Manor Hotel Addition], City of Winnipeg Archives.
City of Winnipeg Building Permit 1115/1909 [Driscoll House], City of Winnipeg Archives.
“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.
We thank Jordan Makichuk for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough and Darryl Toews.
Page revised: 6 July 2024
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