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Walker Avenue

Number

Year(s)

Occupant

696

1925

J. H. Brenton (1898-?)

Walnut Street

Number

Year(s)

Occupant

64

?-1928

John [McLean/MacLean] Maclean (1851-1928)

120

1911-?

William Fingland (1862-1946)

152

?-1932

Howard Alexander Dangerfield (1871-1932)

194

?-1933

Spencer Argyle Bedford (1851-1933)

203

1928

William David Ruttan (1849-1928)

Wardlaw Avenue (formerly Wardlow Avenue)

Number

Year(s)

Occupant

384

1904-1905

Hugh Northcote Baird (1877-1948)

1906-1916

Duncan Donald Young (1859-1927)

391

1911

John Thompson Huggard (1867-1938)

403

1934

Donald D. Campbell (1850-1934)

406

?-1916

Alexander A. Aird (1855-1916)

412

1911

Neil T. MacMillan (1877-1931)

418

1944

Victor G. Williams (1872-1944)

423

1930

Orton Irwin Grain (1863-1930)

481

?-1922

Thomas Llewellyn Metcalfe (1870-1922)

515

?-1923

Henry Follett Anderson (1863-1923)

544

1931

Geoffrey Henry Walker (1858-1931)

626

1936

Thomas Richard Billett (1863-1936)

Warsaw Avenue

Number

Year(s)

Occupant

726

1942

John Kidd Bell (?-1942)

749

?-1937

Thomas Vincent Pemble Smith (1861-1937)

777

1913-1954

William Parker Fillmore (1882-1978)

848

?-1917

John Christie Hicks (1856-1917)

856

?-1959

Joseph Marshall (1876-1959)

Washington Avenue

Number

Year(s)

Occupant

398

?

Stanley Dowhan (1927-1993)

Waterloo Street

Number

Year(s)

Occupant

61

?

John Thomas Boyd (1885-1950)

81

?-1947

James Andrew Dowler (1880-1947)

90

1944

Ewart Carlton Stovel (1889-1944)

222

?-1956

David Grant Potter (1893-1956)

391

?-1963

Carson Ephram Abercrombie (1900-1963)

Waverley Street

Number

Year(s)

Occupant

83

1939

Elvin Clark McMurray (1891-1939)

227

?-1931

Wesley Wright Pirt (1881-1931)

249

?-1932

Charles Hosmer McNaughton (1861-1932)

263

1949

Charles H. McFadyen (1889-1949)

299

1950

Stephen Elswood Richards (1878-1950)

325

?-1966

George Henry Herriot (c1882-1966)

365

?-1953

Matthew Archibald Parker (1871-1953)

433

1960

Earl Ira Cummings (c1896-1960)

Wellington Crescent

Number

Year(s)

Occupant

93

?-1915

William James Lindsay (1854-1915)

99

1911-1950

Harry Lee Willson (1870-1950)

105

1925

Donald McIvor Ross (1881-1925)

147

1911

Francis Lawrence “Frank” Patton (1857-1932)

155

1911

William Lee Ball (1851-1919)

221

?-1940

William Pearson (1865-1940)

1945

Egerton Whimster Marlatt (1875-1945)

?-1970

Paul Guyot DuVal (1893-1970)

1970-1980

James Campbell Haig (1909-1980)

229

1931

William Dawson McBean (1861-1931)

237

1911

John Hamilton Gordon Russell (1863-1946)

245

1935

Max Steinkopf (1881-1935)

250

?-1928

William Henry Fares (1858-1928)

257

1934

D’alton Corry Coleman (1879-1956)

260

1943

William J. Boyd (1862-1943)

261

?-1965

John Stewart McDiarmid (1882-1965)

265

1925-?

John Alexander Gunn (1878-1960)

271

?-1980

Richard Lippincott Denison (1889-1980)

275

1911

William Henry Cross (1852-1928)

277

1911-1913

William C. Leistikow (1852-1913)

1913-1921

Alexander “Sandy” Macdonald (1843-1928)

1921-?

Norman George Heimbecker (1879-1963)

278

1931

Edward Martin Counsell (1872-1931)

280

1941

Clarence Nicholas Bawlf (1892-1941)

329

1908-1945

John Young Reid (1872-1945)

333

?

Dorinda Ball Mutchmor (1900-1982)

334

?

William Thornburn (1871-1944)

359

?-1935

Albert Edward Scott (1860-1935)

360

1925

Edward Anderson (1867-?)

365

1910-1942

William John Christie (1858-1942)

388

1908-1920s

Frederick W. Pace (1873-?)

393

1911

Mark Fortune (1847-1912)

402

?-1969

Solomon Hart Green (1885-1969)

408

c1913

Charles A. MacKenzie (1870-?)

460

1912-1918

George Frederick Galt (1855-1928)

1928-?

James Stewart

475

1888-1918

John Henry Munson (1859-1918)

?-1939

James Armstrong Richardson (1885-1939)

485

1909-?

Hugh Farquharson Osler (1881-1943)

514

1909-1919

James Thomas Gordon (1858-1919)

1920-1936

William Richard Bawlf (1881-1972)

1936-1961

Victor Sifton (1897-1961)

1961-2016

Douglas Donald Everett (1927-2018)

515

1905-1920

Frank Morton Morse (1861-1931)

1920-1947

Sidney Thomas Smith (1878-1947)

523

?-1962

William Henry Carter (1874-1962)

555

c1920-1930

John Charles Gage (1876-1930)

1935-1936

Victor Sifton (1897-1961)

557

1905-1930

William Redford Mulock (1850-1930)

587

1928

Enoch Winkler (1852-1928)

603

?-1954

William Pitt Riley (1870-1954)

?-1976

Joseph Harris (1892-1976)

611

1911-?

Edmund Landor Taylor (1860-1934)

?-1928

Elmer Elsworth Hall (1865-1939)

638

1925

James Loughrin Bathgate (1872-1934)

642

1925

Fletcher S. Andrews (1869-1949)

645

1911-1933

Daniel Hunter McMillan (1846-1933)

657

1903-1924

William Andrew Windatt (1860-1924)

1963

Hugh Phillipps (1875-1963)

662

1909-1937

Hector H. Bradburn (1872-1958)

674

1952

Samuel Rosner (1870-1952)

676

?-1962

George Newton McConnell (1894-1962)

680

1925-1937

Robert Richey Wilson (1856-1937)

686

1928-1937

Hector H. Bradburn (1872-1958)

697

?-1915

John Leslie (1852-1915)

?-1944

Claude Percy Banning (1877-1944)

1944-1956

?

1956-1974

Richard Wilfred Queen-Hughes (1908-1970) and Katherine Gloria Queen-Hughes (1909-1978)

749

1905-1950

Alfred Joseph Andrews (1865-1950)

755

?-1941

William Arthur Irish (1872-1941)

761

c1935-1949

Norman Lawrence Leach (1876-1949)

1953-1979

Augustus Searle Leach (1909-1993)

774

?-1940

Charles James Jamieson (1854-1940)

1940-1976

Charles Norman Jamieson (1889-1976)

845

?-1955

John Edward Spear (1902-1955)

850

?-?

Alexander Edson Boyd (1912-1998)

870

c1925-1943

David Wesley Griffith (1879-1943)

875

c1961-1975

Frederick George “Steamer” Maxwell (1890-1975)

920

?-1949

Albert Stephen “Bert” Boulton (1887-1949)

928

?-1988

Richard Spink Bowles (1912-1988)

951

1935

Donald Waverley Dingwall (1881-1935)

980

?-1939

William A. Matheson (1859-1939)

1021

1933-1937

Fred Myer Sures (1885-1937)

c1949

Harold Arthur Smith (son of Sidney T. Smith) and Josephine Fields Smith

c1965

Theodore O. and Edna E. Peterson

1966-1991

Aubrey J. Halter (1918-2008)

?

Graham Sifton

?

Asper family

1106

?-1968

Robert S. McCordick (1886-1968)

1195

1926-?

David Cooper (1888-1970)

1199

1960

Ralph Dennistoun Baker (1895-1960)

1230

?-1948

William Thomas Kennedy (1880-1948)

1234

1930s-1962

Louis J. Kennedy (1871-1962)

1325

?-1944

John Wesley Dafoe (1866-1944)

1421

?-1956

Arthur William Chapman (c1866-1956)

1464

?-1952

Robert James Shore (1883-1952)

West Gate

Number

Year(s)

Occupant

15

1940

James William Ackland (1866-1940)

25

c1949

McCrea Parker Blair (1882-1958)

30

c1949

Leonard Heaton

39

1925

James A. Davidson (1882-?)

66

c1949

Malcolm Alexander MacQueen (1884-1960)

79

?-1933

John Derby Brook (1862-1933)

85

1909-?

Arthur William Chapman (c1866-1956)

?

David Low Mather (1855-1947)

86

?

Captain Kay

c1949

George Duncan Wood (1858-1907)

97

1942

Thomas Leslie Waldon (1869-1942)

c1949

Douglas Bulgin

112

1933

William Harvey (1864-1933)

?-1940

Fawcett Gowler Taylor (1878-1940)

c1949

Edward Rupert Whitehead (1910-2010)

115

?-?

Hunt Walsh Alan Chambre (1861-1943)

c1949

Benjamin Cronyn Parker (1886-1951)

131

1933

David Horn (1849-1933)

c1949

E. D. Honeyman

134

1911

Lendrum McMeans (1859-1941)

1947

John Benning Monk (1856-1947)

137

?-?

William Wallace Blair (1852-1916)

c1949

L. D. M. Baxter

146

?-1965

Jack St. John (1906-1965)

147

1925

Maxwell Heppner (1881-?)

1949

Hodgson Wilberforce Hutchinson (1862-1949)

180

?-1925

Henry Norlande Ruttan (1848-1925)

186

1944

Robert Thomas Riley (1851-1944)

Westminster Avenue

Number

Year(s)

Occupant

631

?

George Andrew (1851-1929)

655

1925

William Alfred Bishop (1864-1928)

748

1937

Alexander McIntyre Blackburn (1870-1937)

752

?-1955

John Edgar McAllister (1867-1955)

754

1925

John Franklin Grundy (1861-1925)

759

1913-1950

Robert Thomas Hodgson (1864-1950)

Whytewold Road

Number

Year(s)

Occupant

291

1964

Clarence Garfield Keith (1881-1964)

Wilmot Place

Number

Year(s)

Occupant

59

1959

George Montegu Black (1875-1959)

77

1925

Henry Bruce Gordon (1855-1931)

112

1911

Melbourne Francis Christie (1864-1944)

120

1925

Thomas Leonard Hartley (1869-?)

William Avenue

Number

Year(s)

Occupant

529

1905

Leopold Kobold (1832-1905)

539

?-?

Alexander D. Melville (1873-1949)

Winchester Street

Number

Year(s)

Occupant

409

?-?

James Aiken (1888-1974)

Windermere Avenue

Number

Year(s)

Occupant

900

?-1963

Alan Charles “Huck” Woodman (1899-1963)

Wolseley Avenue

Number

Year(s)

Occupant

739

?-1917

Joseph Hector Tremblay (1878-1917)

788

1941

Jorun Hinrikson Lindal (1896-1941)

808

1911-?

Martha Jane Richards Hample (1859-1927)

867

?-?

Arinbjorn Sigurgeirsson Bardal (1866-1951)

1118

?-1949

Robert McKay (1879-1949)

1182

1948

Walter Burman (1880-1948)

1185

1925

Moses Finkelstein (1873-1939)

Manley Finkelstein (1898-?)

1306

?-1953

Charles Morley Vanstone (1870-1953)

Woodhaven Boulevard

Number

Year(s)

Occupant

147

1925

William Alexander Dyer (1866-1931)

152

?-1949

David Alexander Best (1880-1949)

180

?-1948

John Willson Morrison (1883-1948)

Woodlawn

Number

Year(s)

Occupant

220

1925

W. D. Campbell (?-?)

Worthington Avenue

Number

Year(s)

Occupant

59

?-1961

James Duxbury (1873-1961)

Sources:

“Sells residence [277 Wellington],” Winnipeg Tribune, 7 March 1921, page 1.

“Once the district was called Armstrong’s Point – now it’s Eastgate, Middlegate and Westgate” by Lillian Gibbons, Winnipeg Tribune, 9 April 1949, page 14.

“Stately prominence: Wellington Crescent mansion ‘one of the great estates of Winnipeg’” by Gloria Taylor, Winnipeg Free Press, 19 September 2004, page E1 (41). [1021 Wellington Crescent]

We thank Joy Hodgkinson, Nathan Kramer, and Shawn Fay for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 19 November 2022