Born at Neuville en Ferrain, France around 1888, of Belgian parents, he came to Winnipeg in 1909 where he was President and General Manager of the Wyndels Construction Company which designed and built a number of homes, schools, and churches in Manitoba. On 8 January 1917, he married Marie Madeleine Bossuyt (1897-1964) at Fort Garry and they had six children: Zoe Wyndels (1917-1994), Constant Firmin Albert Wyndels (1918-1995), Raymonde Wyndels (1920-2001, wife of James H. Loudfoot), Jeanne Elizabeth Wyndels (1920-2014, wife of James Grant Dykes), Dennis Victor Wyndels (1928-2012), Firmin Wyndels (1929-1992). He died at the St. Boniface Hospital on 14 September 1929 and was buried in the St. Boniface Cathedral Cemetery.
Some of his construction works in Manitoba included:
Building
Location
Year
Value
Status
Fort Garry Catholic Church
Monaghan Avenue, Fort Garry
1914
Unknown
Demolished (?)
Vershae Vershaere House
Dubuc Street, St. Boniface
1916
$1,000
501 Plinguet Street, St. Boniface
1917
$9,000
Demolished (1994)
Swan Lake, Municipality of Lorne
1920
$80,000
Demolished (1938)
Farmers Packing Company Building
Dupuy Avenue at Marion Street, St. Boniface
1921
$24,000
Demolished (?)
Western Wheel & Foundries Building
Messier Street, St. Boniface
1921
$6,200
Carter Store Building
St. Joseph & Provencher, St. Boniface
1921
$5,000
Constant House
Kitson Street, St. Boniface
1921
$2,500
Dr. Collins House
149 Dollard Boulevard, St. Boniface
1922
$10,000
Imperial Oil Garage
Provencher & Tache, St. Boniface
1922
$5,000
McRuer Drug Store
Provencher Boulevard, St. Boniface
1922
$10,000
Imperial Oil Buildings
Selkirk
1922
Unknown
House (brick & stucco)
422 Rue Valade, St. Boniface
1922
$10,000
Dominion Wheel & Foundries Building
Messier Street, St. Boniface
1923
$7,000
House (brick & stucco)
137 Monck Avenue, Norwood
1924
$6,000
House (brick & stucco)
172 Ferndale Avenue, Norwood
1925
$6,000
House (brick & stucco)
178 Ferndale Avenue, Norwood
1925
$5,900
House (brick & stucco)
184 Ferndale Avenue, Norwood
1925
$5,300
House (brick & stucco)
188 Ferndale Avenue, Norwood
1925
$5,300
House (brick & stucco)
190 Ferndale Avenue, Norwood
1925
$4,800
House (brick & stucco)
194 Ferndale Avenue, Norwood
1925
$5,600
House (brick & stucco)
206 Ferndale Avenue, Norwood
1925
$5,500
House (brick & stucco)
210 Ferndale Avenue, Norwood
1925
$5,000
House (brick & stucco)
214 Ferndale Avenue, Norwood
1925
$6,200
House (brick & stucco)
198 Lawndale Avenue, Norwood
1925
$4,000
Beilleul Store
523 Marion Street, St. Boniface
1926
$5,000
Pierson Store
Tache Avenue, St. Boniface
1926
$3,500
Dominion Wheel & Foundries Building
Messier Street, St. Boniface
1926
$20,000
House (stucco)
562 Morenie Street, St. Boniface
1927
$4,000
Farmers Packing Company Building
Dupuy Avenue at Marion Street, St. Boniface
1927
$50,000
Modern Dairy Cold Storage Building
209 La Verendrye Street, St. Boniface
1927
$4,000
300 Dubuc Street, St. Boniface
1928
$28,000
House (brick & stucco)
514 Ritchot Street, St. Boniface
1928
$5,000
738 St. Joseph Street, St. Boniface
1929
$50,000
See also:
Firmin Wyndels: The Belgian Builder by James Wyndels, University of Ottawa, 2016.
Marriage and death registrations, Manitoba Vital Statistics.
1921 Canada census, Ancestry.
“Modern Dairy’s new home will be model plant,” Winnipeg Tribune, 22 June 1929, page 6.
“Deaths and funerals,” Manitoba Free Press, 17 September 1929, page 12.
Obituary, Manitoba Free Press, 17 September 1929, page 22.
Obituary, La Liberte, 18 September 1929, page 8.
“Jeanne Elizabeth Wyndels marries Lieut. J. G. Dykes,” Winnipeg Free Press, 28 March 1944, page 8.
The Belgians in Manitoba by Keith Wilson and James B. Wyndels, Winnipeg: Peguis Publishers, 1976.
Death registration [Firmin Wyndels], British Columbia Vital Statistics.
Obituary [Constant Firmin Albert Wyndels], Winnipeg Free Press, 27 February 1995, page 14.
Obituary [James Herbert Loudfoot], Winnipeg Free Press, 29 January 2004, page 23.
Joseph Van Belleghem: A Biography by James B. Wyndels, Ottawa: J. Merriam Print, 2004, page 7.
Obituary [Dennis Victor Wyndels], Winnipeg Free Press, 4 October 2012.
Henderson’s Winnipeg and Brandon Directories, Henderson Directories Limited, Peel’s Prairie Provinces, University of Alberta Libraries.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough and James Wyndels.
Page revised: 19 March 2022
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