Manitoba Business: Darling and Pearson / Darling Pearson and Over

For a time, this Toronto-based architectural firm operated a Western Canadian office at Winnipeg under the supervision of architect Walter Percy Over.

Some of its architectural works in Manitoba included:

Building	Location	Year	Status
Dominion Bank Building	440 Main Street, Winnipeg	1898	Demolished (1968)
Canadian Bank of Commerce Building	389 Main Street, Winnipeg	1899	Dismantled and reassembled at Regina (1910)
Rowand Block (expansion)	441 Main Street, Winnipeg	1902
Union Bank Building	504 Main Street, Winnipeg	1903-1904
Broadway Baptist Church	706 Honeyman Avenue, Winnipeg	1906
Grain Exchange Building	167 Lombard Avenue, Winnipeg	1906-1908
Imperial Bank of Canada Building	441 Main Street, Winnipeg	1906-1908
Canadian Bank of Commerce Building	48 Fourth Avenue SW, Carman	1907
Castle House	65 West Gate, Winnipeg	1907
Travellers’ Block	283 Bannatyne Avenue, Winnipeg	1907
Winnipeg Post Office	Portage Avenue, Winnipeg	1908	Demolished (1962)
Bank of Nova Scotia Building	254 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg	1908-1910
Canadian Bank of Commerce Building	141 Main Street, Rivers, Municipality of Riverdale	1910
Canadian Bank of Commerce Building	389 Main Street, Winnipeg	1910-1912
Canadian Bank of Commerce Building	107 Richhill Avenue, Elkhorn, RM of Wallace-Woodworth	1912
Canadian Bank of Commerce Building	162 Fischer Avenue, The Pas	1912
Merchants Bank Building	371-373 Main Street, Winnipeg	?

See also:

Memorable Manitobans: Walter Percy Over (1874-1944)

Sources:

Toronto Edwardian by

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 9 May 2026