Manitoba Business: Prain and Ward / Ward and Macdonald / Macdonald Cockburn McLeod and McFeetors / MCM Architects

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This Winnipeg-based architectural firm was founded in 1951 by Edgar Prain and James Thomas Laurance “Laurie” Ward.

A collection of materials relating to the operations of this company between 1912 and 1994 is held at the Archives of Manitoba.

Firm Names

Period	Firm Name
Before 1951	See Edgar Prain
1951-1958	Prain and Ward
1958-1969	Ward and Macdonald / Ward Macdonald and Associates / Ward Macdonald and Partners
1969-1974	Ward Macdonald Cockburn McLeod McFeetors
1975-1987	Macdonald Cockburn McLeod McFeetors
1987-present	MCM Architects

Office Locations

Period	Office Location (Winnipeg)
1951-1955	511-457 Main Street (Confederation Building)
1956-?	822-283 Portage Avenue (Toronto General Trusts Building)
?-1969	?
1969-1970	234 Portage Avenue
1970-1988	?
1988-1994	302-1 Wesley Avenue
1994-2004	?
2004-present	141 St. Anne's Road

Architects / Engineers

Architect / Engineer	Period
Glen Allen Cockburn	1955-?
Gerald Doull “Gerry” Macdonald (1930-2016)	1958-?
Donald I. McFeetors	1960-?
Edgar Prain (1881-1958)	1951-1957
James Thomas Laurance “Laurie” Ward (1925-1985)	1951-1974

Work Samples

Building	Location	Year	Status
St. Alban’s Anglican Church	468 Rathgar Avenue, Winnipeg	1951
Memorial Hall	368 Jemima Street, Selkirk	1951
Dieppe School	530 Dieppe Road, Winnipeg	1951-1952
Royal School	450 Laxdal Road, Winnipeg	1951-1952
Libau School	Libau, RM of St. Clements	1952
Richard School District No. 1092 (renovations)	Somerset, Municipality of Lorne	1952
Viscount Alexander School (expansion)	810 Waterford Avenue, Winnipeg	1952
John Black School	McPhillips Street, Winnipeg	1952
Chalmers United Church (expansion)	651 Spruce Street, Winnipeg	1953
West St. Paul School (expansion)	3740 Main Street, RM of West St. Paul	1953
East Kildonan School District No. 14 (two six-classroom frame, stucco, and concrete slab buildings)	Winnipeg	c1953
Fort Garry School District No. 2047 (10-classroom concrete, frame and brick veneer building)	Winnipeg	c1953
Riverview School (expansion)	Casey Street, Winnipeg	c1953
Transcona School (12-classroom concrete, frame, and brick veneer building)	Winnipeg	c1953
Westview School	600 Hoka Street, Winnipeg	1953
West Kildonan Collegiate	800 Salter Street, Winnipeg	1953
Fort Garry Municipal Building and Fire Hall	1350 Pembina Highway, Winnipeg	1954
Devonshire School (expansion)	Main Street, Selkirk	1954
Great Falls School	Great Falls, RM of Alexander	1954
Royal School (expansion)	450 Laxdal Road, Winnipeg	1954
West Kildonan Collegiate (expansion)	800 Salter Street, Winnipeg	1954
Crane School	888 Crane Avenue, Winnipeg	1955
Fort Garry United Church	800 Point Road, Winnipeg	1955
Melrose Junior High School	Roch Street at Melrose Avenue, Winnipeg	1955
Viscount Alexander School (auditorium)	810 Waterford Avenue, Winnipeg	1955
New Rosewell School (expansion)	1455 Molson Street, Winnipeg	1955
Miles MacDonell Collegiate (expansion)	Winnipeg	1956
General Byng School	1254 Beaumont Street, Winnipeg	1956
Selkirk Collegiate Institute / Selkirk Junior High School	516 Stanley Avenue, Selkirk	1956
Rosedale United Church (expansion)	525 Beresford Avenue, Winnipeg	1957
St. Vital United Church	St. Vital	1957
Radisson School	1105 Winona Street, Winnipeg	1957
Westview School (expansion)	600 Hoka Street, Winnipeg	1957
West Kildonan Collegiate (expansion)	800 Salter Street, Winnipeg	1957
Red River School (expansion)	2400 Main Street, Winnipeg	1957
Selkirk United Church	202 Mclean Avenue, Selkirk	1957-1958
Crane School (expansion)	888 Crane Avenue, Winnipeg	1958
East St. Paul Collegiate	3230 Manlius Avenue, RM of East St. Paul	1958
Templeton School	2536 McPhillips Street, Winnipeg	1958
Transcona Central School (renovations)	Oxford Street, Winnipeg	1958
Fort Garry Municipal Office (renovation)	1350 Pembina Highway, Winnipeg	1959
General Byng School (expansion)	1254 Beaumont Street, Winnipeg	1959
Viscount Alexander School (expansion)	810 Waterford Avenue, Winnipeg	1959
Roland School	Roland, RM of Roland	1959
Princess Margaret School	367 Hawthorne Avenue, Winnipeg	1959
Wayoata School	605 Wayoata Street, Winnipeg	1959
Regent Park School	411 Moroz Street, Winnipeg	1959
Morris United Church	Morris	1959
Tyndall School	Tyndall, RM of Brokenhead	1959
Transcona Central School (renovations)	Oxford Street, Winnipeg	1959
Springfield Heights School	505 Sharon Bay, Winnipeg	1960
Radisson School (expansion)	1105 Winona Street, Winnipeg	1960
Miles Macdonell Collegiate (expansion)	Winnipeg	1960
River East Collegiate	295  Sutton Avenue, Winnipeg	1960
Vincent Massey High School	715 McDiarmid Drive, Brandon	1960
Roland School (expansion)	Roland, RM of Roland	1961
Steinbach Collegiate Institute	77 Lumber Avenue, Steinbach	1961-1962
Carman School	Third Avenue SW, Carman	1961-1963
Miami School (5-classroom building)	Miami, RM of Thompson	1961
Hartney Collegiate (11-classroom building)	Hartney	1961
Wawanesa Collegiate (8-classroom building)	Wawanesa	1961
Souris Collegiate (11-classroom building)	Souris	1961
Seven Oaks School	172 Smithfield Avenue, Winnipeg	1962
Miami Collegiate (expansion)	Miami, RM of Thompson	1963
Ralph Maybank School (expansion)	20 Donnelly Street, Winnipeg	1963
River East Collegiate (expansion)	295  Sutton Avenue, Winnipeg	1963
Garden City Collegiate (expansion)	711 Jefferson Avenue, Winnipeg	1964
Lutheran Church of the Cross	560 Arlington Street, Winnipeg	1965
Margaret Underhill School	25 Regina Place, Winnipeg	1965
Ralph Maybank School (expansion)	20 Donnelly Street, Winnipeg	1965
St. John’s Anglican Church	Carman	1965
Lindenberg Seeds Building	803 Princess Avenue, Brandon	1965
Bethany Baptist Church (expansion)	485 Ingersoll Street, Winnipeg	1966
Fort Richmond Collegiate	99 Killarney Avenue, Winnipeg	1966-1967
Jameswood Elementary School (expansion)	1 Braintree Crescent, Winnipeg	1967
Assiniboine School (expansion)	175 Winston Road, Winnipeg	1967
Robert Andrews School (expansion)	3230 Manlius Avenue, RM of East St. Paul	1967
Western Manitoba Centennial Auditorium	205 Twentieth Street, Brandon	1967-1969
Hampstead School (expansion)	920 Hampstead Avenue, Winnipeg	1968
John W. Gunn School (expansion)	351 Harold Avenue West, Winnipeg	1968
William Russell School	50 Monterey Road, Winnipeg	1968
Neil Campbell School (expansion)	845 Golspie Street, Winnipeg	1968-1969
Arthur Day Middle School	43 Whitehall Boulevard, Winnipeg	1968-1969
Margaret Park School	385 Cork Avenue, Winnipeg	1968-1969
West St. Paul School (expansion)	3740 Main Street, RM of West St. Paul	1968-1969
Salisbury School No. 2 (expansion)	795 Prince Rupert Avenue, Winnipeg	1969
Vincent Massey Collegiate (addition)	975 Dowker Avenue, Winnipeg	1969
Chief Peguis Junior High School	1400 Rothesay Street, Winnipeg	1969
Bruce Junior High School	333 Booth Drive, Winnipeg	1969
Columbus School	26 Columbus Crescent, Winnipeg	1969-1970	Demolished (1994)
Donwood School	400 Donwood Drive, Winnipeg	1970-1971
Keystone Centre	Eighteenth Street, Brandon	1971
Boissevain Collegiate (expansion)	885 Mill Road, Boissevain, Municipality of Boissevain-Morton	1971-1972
Bertrun E. Glavin School	166 Antrim Road, Winnipeg	1972-1973
Elwick Community School	30 Maberley Road, Winnipeg	1973
Spring Valley School	81 Quail Ridge Road, Winnipeg	1973
Crocus Plains Regional Secondary School	1930 First Street, Brandon	1973-1974
Inwood Collegiate (expansion)	Inwood, RM of Armstrong	1974
Angus McKay School (expansion)	850 Woodvale Street, Winnipeg	1974
Plum Coulee School	Plum Coulee, Municipality of Rhineland	1974
Robert Andrews School (expansion)	3230 Manlius Avenue, RM of East St. Paul	1974
Polson School (expansion)	491 Munroe Avenue, Winnipeg	1974-1975
Roblin Park High School	820 Charleswood Road, Winnipeg	1974-1975
Valley Gardens Junior High School	220 Antrim Road, Winnipeg	1974-1975
Forest Park School (expansion)	130 Forest Park Drive, Winnipeg	1975
John De Graff School	1020 Louelda Street, Winnipeg	1976-1977
Dr. F. W. L. Hamilton School (expansion)	3225 Henderson Highway, East St. Paul	1976-1977
Winnipeg Centennial Library	Graham Avenue, Winnipeg	1977
Chancellor School	1520 Chancellor Drive, Winnipeg	1978
Pierre Radisson Collegiate (expansion)	5 De Bourmont Avenue, Winnipeg	1978
Sherwood School (renovations)	509 Grey Street, Winnipeg	1978
Sun Valley School	125 Sun Valley Drive, Winnipeg	1986
Birds Hill School	3950 Raleigh Street, RM of East St. Paul	1986-1987
Pacific Junction School	715 Cathcart Street, Winnipeg	1986-1987
Van Walleghem School	1 Princemere Road, Winnipeg	1987
Champlain School	275 Church Avenue, Winnipeg	1990-1991
Robson Hall	University of Manitoba, Winnipeg	?
Queen Elizabeth II Music Building	Brandon University	?
Island Lakes Community School	445 Island Shore Boulevard, Winnipeg	2001

Sources:

“Tenders [Memorial Hall],” Winnipeg Free Press, 5 June 1951, page 26.

“Tenders [Charleswood schools],” Winnipeg Free Press, 23 June 1951, page 25.

“Tenders [... Richard School District],” Winnipeg Free Press, 6 June 1952, page 30.

“Tenders for addition to school building,” Winnipeg Free Press, 16 August 1952, page 33.

“Chalmers’ United plans enlargement,” Winnipeg Free Press, 24 January 1953, page 34.

“Tenders,” Winnipeg Free Press, 21 March 1953, page 37.

“Tenders [East Kildonan Schools],” Winnipeg Free Press, 6 April 1953, page 29.

“Tenders [School, Fort Garry],” Winnipeg Free Press, 25 April 1953, page 40.

“Municipal Hall of Fort Garry soon started,” Winnipeg Free Press, 14 May 1953, page 8.

“Tenders [Royal School],” Winnipeg Free Press, 20 March 1954, page 39.

“Tenders [Devonshire School],” Winnipeg Free Press, 28 April 1954, page 43.

“E. Kildonan lets contract for school,” Winnipeg Free Press, 20 May 1954, page 3.

“Tenders [Great Falls School],” Winnipeg Free Press, 16 June 1954, page 43.

“Tenders [New Rosewell School],” Winnipeg Free Press, 19 March 1955, page 41.

“Tenders [Miles MacDonell Collegiate],” Winnipeg Free Press, 11 April 1955, page 29.

“Tenders [High School, Selkirk],” Winnipeg Free Press, 17 March 1956, page 22.

“Tenders,” Winnipeg Free Press, 2 April 1957, page 15.

“Tenders [Transcona School District No. 69],” Winnipeg Free Press, 20 April 1957, page 26.

“New St. Vital United Church to be ready for Christmas,” Winnipeg Free Press, 29 June 1957, page 33.

“A record of growth since 1910,” Winnipeg Free Press, 23 November 1957, page 35.

“Veteran architect Edgar Prain dies,” Winnipeg Free Press, 30 January 1958, page 16.

“Tender notice [Vincent Massey Collegiate],” Winnipeg Free Press, 25 January 1969, page 50.

“Tender notice [Keystone Centre],” Winnipeg Free Press, 4 March 1971, page 46.

MCM Architects Inc. fonds, 1912-1994, Archives of Manitoba.

We thank John Doe for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough and Nathan Kramer.

Page revised: 21 December 2024