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Frank Allen Sparrow
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Building contractor, municipal official.
Born at Huntingdon, Quebec in 1878, he came to Winnipeg in 1903 and established the construction company of Sparrow Brothers with his brother David H. Sparrow. He was a founding member of the Winnipeg Builders’ Exchange.
He and wife Annie Mary Wheiler (1875-1965) had two daughters: Hilda Grace Sparrow and Marion Isobel Sparrow (1908-?, wife of Michel Jean Sym). They lived at 155 Borebank Street. He was a charter member of the IOOF (North Star Lodge No. 2) and a member of Westminster United Church. Active in community affairs, he served as Reeve of the Rural Municipality of Charleswood (1929-1930).
He died at the St. Boniface Hospital on 23 June 1967 and was buried in the Chapel Lawn Memorial Gardens.
Some of his construction work in Manitoba included:
Building
Location
Year
Status
342 Dromore Avenue, Winnipeg
1912
66 Harvard Avenue, Winnipeg
1925
101 Park Boulevard, Winnipeg
1926
225 Lamont Boulevard, Winnipeg
1926
207 Park Boulevard, Winnipeg
1927
229 Lamont Boulevard, Winnipeg
1927
210 Lamont Boulevard, Winnipeg
1929
120 Lamont Boulevard, Winnipeg
1929
12 West Gate, Winnipeg
1929-1930
155 Waverley Street, Winnipeg
1931
White House
202 Handsart Boulevard
1931
39 Nanton Boulevard, Winnipeg
1936
1911 Canada census, Automated Genealogy.
“Builders of Greater Winnipeg,” Winnipeg Tribune, 18 June 1931, page 34.
Obituary [Annie Mary Sparrow], Winnipeg Free Press, 4 September 1965, page 38.
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 26 June 1967, page 32.
We thank Jordan Makichuk and Blair Bingeman for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 29 January 2025
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