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Memorable Manitobans: Thomas Sinclair (1877-1913)

Architect.

Born at Edinburgh, Scotland on 20 January 1877, he was educated there and at the University of Edinburgh. He served an architectural apprenticeship in Scotland before coming to Brandon. Here he designed the Brandon Arena, the largest indoor arena in Canada in its day, along with buildings elsewhere in Manitoba and Saskatchewan. On 21 March 1908 he married Mary Clarke, daughter of John and Isabelle Clarke of Ednam Kelso, Scotland. He died at Brandon on 19 December 1913 and was buried in Brandon Cemetery.

Some of his architectural works in Manitoba included:

Building	Location	Year	Status
Alexandra School	College Avenue, Brandon	1906	Demolished
Harding School No. 1352	Harding, RM of Woodworth	1906	Demolished
Brandon Armoury	1116 Victoria Avenue, Brandon	1907
St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church	Elva, RM of Arthur	1909	Demolished
Kenton Municipal Hall	Kenton, RM of Woodworth	1909
Aikenside Methodist Church	Justice, RM of Elton	1909
A. E. McKenzie Building	30 Ninth Street, Brandon	1910
King George School	430 Victoria Avenue East, Brandon	1911	Demolished
Gordon McKay Building	Brandon	1913

Sources:

The Story of Manitoba by F. H. Schofield, Winnipeg: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1913.

Death registration, Manitoba Vital Statistics.

“Bright young Brandon architect dead,” Manitoba Free Press, 20 December 1913, page 13.

Dictionary of Manitoba Biography by J. M. Bumsted, Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 1999.

Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada, 1800-1950 by Robert G. Hill, Toronto.

We thank Keith Davies Jones for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 23 March 2015

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