Building contractor, architect.
Born at Warminster, County Wiltshire, England in 1846, he emigrated to the United States in 1870 and worked as a brick mason at Litchfield, Michigan. By 1875, he had moved to Guelph, Ontario where he was a building contractor, and by 1881 to nearby Woodstock. After 1890, he came to western Canada and, in 1891, he was an inspector for construction of the Brandon City Hall and Brandon Central School. As an architect, he was responsible for the design of several Brandon buildings in the early 1890s. He left Brandon around 1895 and moved to Winnipeg briefly, before returning to Ontario, at Niagara Falls. His whereabouts after circa 1902 are presently unknown.
Some of his architectural works in Manitoba included:
Building
Location
Year
Status
Four cottages
Fifteenth Street, Brandon
1891
Brandon City Hall (supervision)
818 Princess Avenue, Brandon
1891-1892
Demolished (March 1971)
Alexander, RM of Whitehead
1892
Demolished (c1902)
Chubb House [Frederick J. Chubb]
Fifteenth Street, Brandon
1892
Daly and Coldwell Block
Rosser Avenue, Brandon
1892
Halpin Block [H. J. Halpin]
Rosser Avenue, Brandon
1892
Hesson House [F. H. Hesson]
Nineteenth Street, Brandon
1892
924 Rosser Avenue, Brandon
1892
MacDonald House [Robert G. MacDonald]
Fifteenth Street, Brandon
1892
MacDonald Block [W. A. MacDonald]
Rosser Avenue, Brandon
1892
Miller Block [C. A. Miller]
Rosser Avenue, Brandon
1892
Robinson House [John M. Robinson]
Thirteenth Street, Brandon
1892
Syndicate Block
Rosser Avenue, Brandon
1892
“Latest wheat city gossip,” Winnipeg Tribune, 9 September 1891, page 1.
[Tenders - Alexander School], Brandon Weekly Sun, 25 August 1892, page 5.
Brandon Mail, 8 September 1892, page 3.
Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada, 1800-1950 by Robert G. Hill, Toronto.
This page was prepared by Robert Hill and Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 20 March 2025
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