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Memorable Manitobans: William Moxam (1882-1950)
Born at Foresters Falls, Ontario, Ontario on 25 August 1882, son of Emanuel M. Moxam (1854-?) and Annie Moxam (1852-?), twin brother of John Archibald Moxam, he came to Manitoba in 1903 and worked as a building contractor, at Petersfield for four years and later at Winnipeg. He and wife Ethel Blanche Demille (1886-1955) had two daughters: Marjorie Irene Moxam (1906-?, wife of Clarence Lee Tallie) and Helen Adelaide Moxam (1907-1987). He was a charter member of the Vermillion Lodge AF & AM at Dauphin. He died at the St. Boniface Hospital on 28 April 1950 and was buried in the Brookside Cemetery.
Some of his construction works in Manitoba included:
Building
Location
Year
Status
469 Kennedy Street, Winnipeg
1910
Vansittart Apartments
348 Stradbrook Avenue, Winnipeg
1910
Demolished (?)
100 Roslyn Road, Winnipeg
1927
213 Langside Street, Winnipeg
1927
393 River Avenue, Winnipeg
1928
230 Hugo Street North, Winnipeg
1930
830 Corydon Avenue, Winnipeg
1931
Sources:
1901 and 1911 Canada censuses, Automated Genealogy.
Birth registration [Helen Adelaide Moxam], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Marriage registration [Marjorie Irene Moxam, Clarence Lee Talley], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 1 May 1950, page 26.
Obituary [Helen Blanche Moxam], Winnipeg Free Press, 14 January 1955, page 31.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 22 April 2022
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