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Albert Lee Houkes
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Marble and granite dealer.
Born in Bradford, England on 4 January 1868, he apprenticed as a stone cutter before emigrating to Australia in 1887. Returning to England fifteen months later, he then moved to Canada in 1890 and settled in Ontario. Soon after he relocated to Manitoba where he lived for three years at Brandon then, in 1895, he came to Winnipeg and entered into the marble and granite business of Hooper, Houkes & Company. During the First World War, he enlisted with the 242nd Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force and served in England with the Canadian Forestry Corps.
In 1894, he married Amelia Charlotte “Millie” Harland (1875-1940) and they had five children: Lillian May “Lily” Houkes (1895-1983, wife of John McCallum Tait), Arthur Edward Houkes (1896-1916), Gladys Annie Houkes (1900-1965, wife of Arthur Ernest Mathews), Alberta Lee Houkes (1903-2002, wife of Alexander John Tough), and William Russell Houkes (1904-1984). He was a member of the Maccabees.
He died at Vancouver, British Columbia on 1 December 1942 and was buried in the Mountain View Cemetery.
Marriage registration [Albert Lee Howkes, Amelia Charlotte Harland], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Birth registrations [Lillian May Houkes, Arthur Edward Hawkes, Gladys Annie Houkes], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
A History of Manitoba: Its Resources and People by Prof. George Bryce, Toronto: The Canadian History Company, 1906.
1901 Canada census, Automated Genealogy.
Obituary [Amelia Charlotte Houkes], Vancouver Sun, 2 July 1940, page 14.
Obituary [Gladys Annie Mathews], The Province, 13 September 1965, page 27.
Death registrations [Albert Lee Houkes, Lillian May Tait], British Columbia Vital Statistics.
Obituary [William Russell Houkes], Vancouver Sun, 15 December 1984, page 49.
This page was prepard by Gordon Goldsborough and Darryl Toews.
Page revised: 7 June 2024
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