Born at Winnipeg on 8 December 1909, one of three sons of grain merchant Ralph H. Moore (1880-1963) and Gertrude Isabel Marshall (1880-1960), he was a senior partner with Herbert Henry Gatenby Moody in the architectural and engineering firm of Moody Moore and Partners (MMP). The firm was responsible for many of the prominent buildings in Winnipeg. He served as President of the Manitoba Association of Architects (1943-1944) and was a Director of Stovel Advocate Press Limited, James B. Carter Limited, and the Sovereign Life Assurance Company of Canada.
On 2 March 1937, he married Donna McCabe (?-?, daughter of George H. McCabe) at Minneapolis, Minnesota. They had a son and a daughter, Darryl Elizabeth Moore (1948-2022). He was an Honorary Life Member of the Manitoba Club and a Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada.
He died at Sarasota, Florida on 10 December 1995 and was buried at Minneapolis, Minnesota.
See also:
Manitoba Business: Moody and Moore / Duncan Rattray Peters and Searle / MMP Architects
Birth registration [Robert Albert Moore], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
1911 Canada census, Automated Genealogy.
“R. E. Moore and Donna McCabe wed in Minneapolis Tuesday,” Winnipeg Free Press, 3 March 1937, page 8.
“Sovereign life,” Winnipeg Free Press, 14 June 1958, page 49.
Obituary [Ralph H. Moore], Winnipeg Free Press, 28 December 1963, page 24.
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 16 December 1995, page 64.
Obituary [Darryl Elizabeth Moore], Winnipeg Free Press, 7 January 2023.
Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada, 1800-1950 by Robert G. Hill, Toronto.
We thank Christian Cassidy for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 11 November 2023
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