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Edward Gauer
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Surveyor, civil servant.
Born at Winnipeg in April 1904, son of Rudolf Gauer (1864-1914) and Anna Schmalenberg (1863-1932), brother of Henry Gauer and Elsie Lydia Gauer, he attended St. John’s Technical High School. He received a degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Manitoba (1926) and was awarded the Joseph Doupe Gold Medal. He did postgraduate work on secondary stresses in steel structures. He worked on railway and municipal construction during the summers of 1923 to 1925, and with the Topographical Survey of Canada in the summer of 1926.
In 1927, he worked on concrete design and detail with the Barnett McQueen Construction Company at Fort William [now Thunder Bay], Ontario. From December 1927 to June 1932 he did field surveys for the Good Roads Board of Manitoba. After a period in private practice, from June 1932 to June 1936,, he joined the Surveys Branch of the Manitoba Department of Mines and Natural Resources, remaining there until retirement in October 1969. He was commissioned as a Dominion Land Surveyor (1930) and a Manitoba Land Surveyor (1931), and he represented the province on the Manitoba-Saskatchewan Boundary Commission. He was Manitoba's representative on the Canadian Permanent Committee on Geographical Names. He served as President of the Association of Manitoba Land Surveyors (1950).
On 28 June 1930, he married Marjorie Isabel Boyd (1904-1981) at Winnipeg. They had two daughters and two sons. He was a member of the United Church, Engineering Institute of Canada, St. Vital Retired Men’s Curling Club, and Winnipeg Canoe Club. In 1970, he was given a Centennial Medal by the Manitoba Historical Society for his contributions as a provincial surveyor.
He died at Winnipeg on 31 March 1983 and was buried in the Elmwood Cemetery.
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: International Interprovincial Boundary Monument (Municipality of Two Borders)
Death registration [Rudolph Gauer], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Marriage registration [Edward Gauer, Marjorie Isabel Boyd], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
“McDiarmid announces three appointments,” Winnipeg Free Press, 23 December 1946, page 3.
Obituary [Marjorie Isabel Gauer], Winnipeg Free Press, 8 October 1981, page 59.
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 2 April 1983, page 41.
Surveys and Mapping Branch: 1930-1990 by Province of Manitoba, Department of Natural Resources, July 1990, page 65. [Manitoba Legislative Library]
Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 7 January 2026
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