Born at Winkler on 1 January 1923, one of seven children of Isaac W. Enns (1900-1990) and Sarah T. Hildebrand (1901-1997), he grew up in the Greenfarm district. During the Second World War, as a conscientious objector, he served as an orderly at the Manitoba School for Mental Defectives. After the war, he attended the University of Manitoba and received an Architecture degree then worked for 30 years as an architect for the Winnipeg School Division, designing numerous schools around the city. He retired in 1984. He and wife Marie Florence Hiebert (1922-2000) had three children. He died at Winnipeg on 29 December 2006.
Some of his architectural works in Manitoba included:
Building
Location
Year
Status
132 Lusted Avenue, Winnipeg
1955
1600 Grant Avenue, Winnipeg
1955
3 Borrowman Avenue, Winnipeg
1955-1956
1360 Redwood Avenue, Winnipeg
1956-1957
Grosvenor School (expansion)
1045 Grosvenor Avenue, Winnipeg
1959
700 Elgin Avenue, Winnipeg
1960
St. John’s High School (expansion)
401 Church Avenue, Winnipeg
1960
233 McKenzie Street, Winnipeg
1962
500 Gertrude Street, Winnipeg
1962
525 Agnes Street, Winnipeg
1963
155 Kingsway, Winnipeg
1963
Lord Roberts School (expansion)
665 Beresford Avenue, Winnipeg
1969
690 Beverley Street, Winnipeg
1972
170 Poplar Avenue, Winnipeg
1973-1974
Marriage registration [Isaac W. Enns, Sarah T. Hildebrand], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Birth registration [William Isaac Enns], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Obituary [Isaac W. Enns], Winnipeg Free Press, 7 June 1990, page 45.
Obituary [Marie Florence Enns], Winnipeg Free Press, 27 December 2000.
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 30 December 2006.
William (Bill) Isaac Enns, Winnipeg Architecture Foundation.
Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 5 February 2025
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