Born on 1 January 1923, he grew up in the Greenfarm district. During the Second World War, as a conscientious objector, he served as an orderly at the Manitoba School for Mental Defectives. After the war, he attended the University of Manitoba and received an architecture degree then worked for 30 years as an architect for the Winnipeg School Division. He retired in 1984. He and wife Marie Florence Hiebert (1922-2000) had three children. He died at Winnipeg on 29 December 2006.
Some of his architectural works in Manitoba included:
Building
Location
Year
Status
Norquay School
132 Lusted Avenue, Winnipeg
1955
Sir William Osler School
1600 Grant Avenue, Winnipeg
1955
Gordon Bell High School
3 Borrowman Avenue
1955-1956
Sisler High School
1360 Redwood Avenue, Winnipeg
1956-1957
Grosvenor School (expansion)
1045 Grosvenor Avenue, Winnipeg
1959
700 Elgin Avenue, Winnipeg
1960
St. John’s High School (expansion)
401 Church Avenue, Winnipeg
1960
Strathcona School
233 McKenzie Street, Winnipeg
1962
Gladstone School
500 Gertrude Street, Winnipeg
1962
John M. King School
525 Agnes Street, Winnipeg
1963
Kelvin High School
155 Kingsway Avenue, Winnipeg
1963
Lord Roberts School (expansion)
665 Beresford Avenue, Winnipeg
1969
Wellington Avenue, Winnipeg
1972
Lord Selkirk School
170 Poplar Avenue, Winnipeg
1973-1974
Obituary [Marie Florence Enns], Winnipeg Free Press, 27 December 2000.
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 30 December 2006.
William (Bill) Isaac Enns, Winnipeg Architecture Foundation.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 1 November 2022
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