HBC employee.
Born at Wherwell, Hampshire, England on 28 March 1824, he married Emma Martha Jackson (1829-1894) on 16 August 1855 and they had at least six children, including Arthur William Goulding and Francis Joseph Goulding (?-1898). The family emigrated to the United States at the end of the American Civil War, to a town near New Orleans, Louisiana. He worked on a plantation there for several years then returned in England.
In 1871 he came to Canada, settling in the area known originally as Bytown (now Ottawa) then, in 1873, he brought his family to the Red River Settlement where he worked for the Hudson’s Bay Company. He owned a large parcel of farm land in what is now Winnipeg, south of Portage Avenue. It sold for over $100,000 in the 1910s.
Several years later, on a trip returning to England, he died on 22 June 1881 and was buried at sea. His wife is buried in the St. James Cemetery.
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Goulding House (677 Ninth Avenue, Virden)
Dictionary of Manitoba Biography by John M. “Jack” Bumsted, Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, December 1999, 288 pages.
Walter Llewellyn Goulding, FindAGrave.
We thank Rick Dondo for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 20 January 2026
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