Memorable Manitobans: George Gaspar Teeter (1874-1949)

Architect.

Born at St. Anne’s, Ontario on 11 November 1874, a nephew of Chancellor Teeter, he was educated at the University of Toronto, where he received a degree in architecture. He was a junior partner of a North Bay (Ontario) firm of architects before coming to Winnipeg in 1908. He worked as an independent architect for many years and served as a President of the Manitoba Association of Architects. He and his wife Marion Ellen McLennan (c1886-1971), who he married on 12 October 1910 at Souris, shared one child, John Alan Teeter (?-?). He was a member of Broadway First Baptist Church and Masonic fraternity (Prince Rupert Lodge No. 1). On 15 February 1949, he died at his Winnipeg home, 333 Yale Avenue, and was buried in the Elmwood Cemetery.

Some of his architectural works in Manitoba included:

Building	Location	Year	Status
Salem Reformed Church	235 Andrews Street	1907
Nassau Street Baptist Church (foundation)	549 Gertrude Avenue, Winnipeg	1907
First German Baptist Church	821 McDermot Avenue, Winnipeg	1907
Ninga School No. 485	Ninga, RM of Turtle Mountain	1908
Nassau Street Baptist Church (superstructure)	549 Gertrude Avenue, Winnipeg	1909
Windermere Apartments	224 Kennedy Street, Winnipeg	1909
Kenilworth Court	44 Hargrave Street, Winnipeg	1910	Destroyed by fire (2015)
St. Elmo Apartments	177 Colony Street, Winnipeg	1910
Williamson Block (addition)	38 Kate Street, Winnipeg	1910
Ellesmere Apartments	74 Carlton Street, Winnipeg	1911
King Edward Memorial Hospital	1 Morley Avenue, Winnipeg	1911-1912	Demolished (?)
Conway Court	165 Kennedy Street, Winnipeg	1912
New Westminster Apartments	705 Westminster Avenue, Winnipeg	1912
Quelch Apartments	210 Quelch Street, Winnipeg	1912
Rozel Apartments	105 Clarke Street, Winnipeg	1912
Tavistock Apartments	724 Wellington Avenue, Winnipeg	1912
Little Britain Presbyterian Church Manse	Lockport, RM of St. Clements	1914
King Memorial United Church	127 Cobourg Avenue, Winnipeg	1927
Christie Brown Building	1147-1155 Notre Dame Avenue, Winnipeg	1931-1932
Polo Park Racetrack (new grandstands)	Portage Avenue, Winnipeg	1935	Demolished (1957)
Shriners Hospital for Crippled Children	633 Wellington Crescent, Winnipeg	1947-1949	Demolished (2022)

Sources:

1901 Canada census, Automated Genealogy.

Marriage registration, Manitoba Vital Statistics.

“Teeter – McLennan,” Winnipeg Tribune, 14 October 1910, page 5.

“Poor work of hospital,” Manitoba Free Press, 28 January 1913, page 7.

“Tenders for Manse,” Manitoba Free Press, 21 July 1914, page 2.

“Tenders: Shriners’ Hospital for Crippled Children,” Winnipeg Tribune, 19 March 1947, page 18.

“George Teeter, city architect, dies at home,” Winnipeg Tribune, 16 February 1949, page 27.

“City architect G. Teeter dies,” CIT, 17 February 1949. [Manitoba Legislative Library, Biographical Scrapbook B10, page 84]

Obituary [Marion E. Teeter], Winnipeg Free Press, 29 May 1971, page 37.

Dictionary of Manitoba Biography by John M. “Jack” Bumsted, Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 1999.

Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada, 1800-1950 by Robert G. Hill, Toronto.

Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.

We thank Nathan Kramer, Christian Cassidy, and Jordan Makichuk for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 26 September 2023

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