Building contractor.
Born at Deeping, Lincolnshire, England on 7 September 1880, son of Benjamin Robert Claydon and Ann Kitchen, he emigrated to Canada in 1902 and formed the Claydon Brothers Construction Company at Winnipeg, in partnership with his brother Arthur Claydon, who was later killed while serving with the Royal Air Force during the First World War. He was President of the Winnipeg Builders’ Exchange and Vice-President of the Canadian Construction Association.
On 16 April 1910, he married Lilian Emily Dines (1885-1962) at Winnipeg. They had five children: Gurth E. Claydon (1911-1969), Oliver Claydon (1912-1981), Margaret Claydon (1917-1992, wife of Thomas John Norquay), David Arthur Claydon (1921-1944), and Shirley Ruth Claydon (1925-1996, wife of John G. Slocombe). He and his wife were founding members of the Natural History Society and he was active in several religious organizations, including the Bethany Baptist Church, British and Foreign Bible Society, Gideon Society, and Shantymen’s Christian Association.
He died at Vancouver, British Columbia on 26 February 1954 and was buried in the St. James Cemetery.
Some of his construction works in Manitoba included:
Building |
Location |
Year |
Status |
Muir House |
32 Balmoral Street, Winnipeg |
1906 |
|
Broadway Baptist Church |
706 Honeyman Avenue, Winnipeg |
1906 |
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Dominion Bank Building |
678 Main Street, Winnipeg |
1907 |
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Assiniboine Park Pavilion |
Assiniboine Park, Winnipeg |
1908 |
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Kennedy Building |
317 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg |
1909 |
|
Windermere Apartments |
224 Kennedy Street, Winnipeg |
1909 |
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Welland Court |
409 Balmoral Street, Winnipeg |
1909 |
Demolished (?) |
Christie House |
365 Wellington Crescent, Winnipeg |
1910 |
|
Kenilworth Court |
44 Hargrave Street, Winnipeg |
1910 |
Destroyed by fire (2015) |
St. Elmo Apartments |
177 Colony Street, Winnipeg |
1910 |
|
Ackland Warehouse |
67 Higgins Avenue, Winnipeg |
1911 |
|
Brussels Apartments |
150-156 Lilac Street, Winnipeg |
1912 |
|
Anvers Apartments |
758 McMillan Avenue, Winnipeg |
1912 |
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Brown Block |
902 Home Street, Winnipeg |
1912 |
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DeBary Apartments |
626 Wardlaw Avenue, Winnipeg |
1912-1913 |
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Speirs House |
6 Middle Gate, Winnipeg |
1912-1913 |
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Hossie House |
66 Waterloo Street, Winnipeg |
1913 |
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Sunnycrest Apartments |
667 Wolseley Avenue, Winnipeg |
1913 |
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William Whyte School |
Manitoba Avenue, Winnipeg |
1914 |
Demolished (1976) |
King George Hospital |
1 Morley Avenue, Winnipeg |
?-1914 |
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Broadway Baptist Church (expansion) |
706 Honeyman Avenue, Winnipeg |
1914 |
|
Haffner House |
71 West Gate, Winnipeg |
1914 |
|
Eaton’s Mail Order and Catalogue Building (expansion) |
333 St. Mary Avenue, Winnipeg |
1920 |
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St. Michael and All Angels Anglican Church |
300 Hugo Street North, Winnipeg |
1920 |
|
Lord Selkirk School No. 1 (renovations) |
Brazier Street, Winnipeg |
1921 |
|
Isaac Newton Junior High School |
730 Aberdeen Avenue, Winnipeg |
1921 |
|
Brandon Citizens’ Science Building |
270 Eighteenth Street, Brandon |
1922-1923 |
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Eaton’s Mail Order and Catalogue Building (expansion) |
333 St. Mary Avenue, Winnipeg |
1926 |
|
Eaton’s Warehouse |
130 Galt Avenue, Winnipeg |
1927 |
|
Winnipeg Electric Desautels Substation |
403-407 Rue Desautels |
1927 |
|
Fairhaven Apartments |
536 Broadway |
1929 |
Demolished (?) |
Hugh John Macdonald School |
567 Bannatyne Avenue, Winnipeg |
1929-1930 |
|
Birtle Indian Residential School |
Birtle, Municipality of Prairie View |
1930-1931 |
|
Arts Building |
173 Dafoe Road, Winnipeg |
1931-1932 |
|
Air Observers School No. 5 |
Winnipeg |
1940 |
Demolished (?) |
Elementary Flying Training School No. 14 / Air Observers School No. 7 |
Southport, RM of Portage la Prairie |
1940 |
|
Bombing and Gunnery School No. 7 Hangars |
Paulson, RM of Dauphin |
1940-1941 |
Demolished (?) |
SFTS No. 33 Relief Field / Petrel Aerodrome |
RM of North Cypress |
1941 |
|
St. Matthew’s Anglican Church (restoration) |
641 St. Matthews Avenue, Winnipeg |
1945 |
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See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Claydon House (124 Chestnut Street, Winnipeg)
Sources:
Birth and marriage registrations, Manitoba Vital Statistics.
1916 and 1921 Canada censes, Ancestry.
“Birthday congratulations to,” Winnipeg Free Press, 7 September 1933, page 13.
Death registration, British Columbia Vital Statistics.
“E. Claydon, contractor, dies at 73,” Winnipeg Free Press, 27 February 1954, page 34.
Obituary [Lilian E. Claydon], Winnipeg Free Press, 3 December 1962, page 34.
Obituary [Gurth E. Claydon], Winnipeg Free Press, 22 May 1969, page 32.
Obituary [Oliver Claydon], Winnipeg Free Press, 17 September 1981, page 70.
Obituary [Shirley Ruth Slocombe], Winnipeg Free Press, 4 May 1996, page 49.
Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.
We thank Ed Ledohowski, Nathan Kramer, and George Tacik for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 29 March 2022
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