Born in England in 1856, he came to United States where he married Amy Bunn (1856-1925) and had three sons: Albert Edward Cooper (1885-1926), Archie Cooper (1889-?), and William Cooper (1891-?). The family moved to Winnipeg in the early 1890s and had two more sons: Clarence Alexander Cooper (1895-1974) and Norman Wallace Cooper (1897-1973). He worked as a general contractor, responsible for the construction of private residences around Winnipeg. He died at Vancouver, British Columbia on 22 March 1921 and was buried in the Elmwood Cemetery.
Some of his construction work in Manitoba included:
Building
Location
Year
Status
Cranwill House
293 Inkster Boulevard, Winnipeg
1914
Pascoe House
291 Inkster Boulevard, Winnipeg
1914
Birth registrations [Clarence Alexander Cooper, Norman Wallace Cooper], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Border Crossings from Canada to U.S., 1895-1960, Ancestry.
1911 Canada census, Automated Genealogy.
Death registrations [Albert Peter Cooper, Norman Wallace Cooper, Clarence Alexander Cooper], British Columbia Vital Statistics.
Death registration [Amy Cooper], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Obituary [Amy Cooper], Winnipeg Tribune, 1 January 1926, page 16.
Obituary [Edward Cooper], Winnipeg Tribune, 10 June 1926, page 19.
Obituary [Lucy Cooper], Winnipeg Free Press, 23 November 1983, page 48.
Albert Peter Cooper, FamilySearch.
This page was prepared by Jordan Makichuk and Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 14 April 2026
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