Born at Manchester, England on 24 August 1878, he came to Manitoba in 1904 and worked as a general contractor at Winnipeg. He and wife Emily Lane (c1884-?) had three children: Letitia Evelyn “Letty” Williams (1908-1986), John Desternel “Jack” Williams (1912-?), and Edna May Williams (1914-1974, wife of Leonard Leslie Slimon). The family lived at 598 Young Street (circa 1931). He was a member of St. Jude’s Anglican Church and Strathcona Curling Club. He died at the Winnipeg General Hospital on 9 July 1939 and was buried in the St. James Anglican Cemetery.
Some of his construction work in Manitoba included:
Building
Location
Year
Status
260 Kennedy Street, Winnipeg
1931
Demolished (1950s)
254 Kennedy Street, Winnipeg
c1932
Birth registrations [Letitia Evelyn Williams, John Desternel Williams, Edna May Williams], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
1931 Canada census, Ancestry.
Death registration [John Richard Williams], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Obituary, Winnipeg Tribune, 10 July 1939, page 4.
Marriage registration [Edna May Williams, Leonard Leslie Slimon], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Death registrations [Edna May Slimon, Letitia Evelyn Williams], British Columbia Vital Statistics.
Obituary [Letitia Evelyn Williams], Winnipeg Free Press, 13 February 1986, page 56.
Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 21 September 2025
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