Born at St. Anne’s, Ontario on 11 November 1874, a nephew of Chancellor Teeter, he was educated at the University of Toronto, where he received a degree in architecture. He was a junior partner of a North Bay (Ontario) firm of architects before coming to Winnipeg in 1908. He worked as an independent architect for many years and served as a President of the Manitoba Association of Architects.
On 12 October 1910, he married Marion Ellen McLennan (c1886-1971) at Souris and they had one child, John Alan Teeter (?-?). He was a member of Broadway First Baptist Church and the Masons (Prince Rupert Lodge No. 1).
On 15 February 1949, he died at his Winnipeg home, 333 Yale Avenue, and was buried in the Elmwood Cemetery.
Some of his architectural works in Manitoba included:
Building
Location
Year
Status
235 Andrews Street
1907
Nassau Street Baptist Church (foundation)
549 Gertrude Avenue, Winnipeg
1907
821 McDermot Avenue, Winnipeg
1907
Ninga, RM of Turtle Mountain
1908
Nassau Street Baptist Church (superstructure)
549 Gertrude Avenue, Winnipeg
1909
421 McDermot Avenue, Winnipeg
1909
224 Kennedy Street, Winnipeg
1909
44 Hargrave Street, Winnipeg
1910
Destroyed by fire (2015)
177 Colony Street, Winnipeg
1910
Williamson Block (addition)
38 Kate Street / 553-555 Notre Dame Avenue, Winnipeg
1910
74 Carlton Street, Winnipeg
1911
1 Morley Avenue, Winnipeg
1911-1912
Demolished (?)
50 Macdonald Avenue, Winnipeg
1912
Demolished (?)
165 Kennedy Street, Winnipeg
1912
705 Westminster Avenue, Winnipeg
1912
210 Quelch Street, Winnipeg
1912
105 Clarke Street, Winnipeg
1912
724 Wellington Avenue, Winnipeg
1912
Elmwood Presbyterian Church (foundation)
127 Cobourg Avenue, Winnipeg
1912-1913
King Memorial Presbyterian Church (foundation expansion)
127 Cobourg Avenue, Winnipeg
1914
Little Britain Presbyterian Church Manse
Lockport, RM of St. Clements
1914
King Memorial United Church (superstructure)
127 Cobourg Avenue, Winnipeg
1927
Christie Brown Building (supervision)
1147-1155 Notre Dame Avenue, Winnipeg
1931-1932
Polo Park Racetrack (new grandstands)
1485 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg
1935
Demolished (October 1956)
633 Wellington Crescent, Winnipeg
1947-1949
Demolished (2022)
1901 Canada census, Automated Genealogy.
Marriage registration [George Garpar Teeter, Marion Ellen McLennan], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
“Teeter – McLennan,” Winnipeg Tribune, 14 October 1910, page 5.
“Poor work of hospital,” Manitoba Free Press, 28 January 1913, page 7.
“Tenders for Manse,” Manitoba Free Press, 21 July 1914, page 2.
“Tenders: Shriners’ Hospital for Crippled Children,” Winnipeg Tribune, 19 March 1947, page 18.
“George Teeter, city architect, dies at home,” Winnipeg Tribune, 16 February 1949, page 27.
“City architect G. Teeter dies,” CIT, 17 February 1949. [Manitoba Legislative Library, Biographical Scrapbook B10, page 84]
Obituary [Marion E. Teeter], Winnipeg Free Press, 29 May 1971, page 37.
Dictionary of Manitoba Biography by John M. “Jack” Bumsted, Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 1999.
Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada, 1800-1950 by Robert G. Hill, Toronto.
Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.
We thank Nathan Kramer, Christian Cassidy, and Jordan Makichuk for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 28 November 2024
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