Memorable Manitobans: Victor Daniel Horsburgh (1865-1947)

Architect.

Born at Edinburgh, Scotland on 9 December 1865, son of artist John Horsburgh (1825-1924) and Agnes McIntosh (1833-1911), he apprenticed in architecture with well-known Edinburgh and London architects and practiced in Edinburgh before coming to Canada in 1909. He specialized in bank architecture, being responsible for buildings across the country, until retirement in 1933. He died unmarried at Victoria, British Columbia on 12 September 1947 and was buried there.

Some of his architectural works in Manitoba included:

Building	Location	Year	Status
Canadian Bank of Commerce Building	122 Main Street, Dauphin	1909-1910
Canadian Bank of Commerce Building	29 Main Street North, Gilbert Plains, Municipality of Gilbert Plains	1912
Canadian Bank of Commerce Building	402 Main Street, Grandview, Municipality of Grandview	1912
Maycock Block (renovations)	586 Main Street, Winnipeg	1913
Canadian Bank of Commerce Building	Mountain Avenue, Neepawa	1914
Kennedy Block (conversion)	315-323 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg	1919	Partly destroyed by fire (1973)
Canadian Bank of Commerce Building	Stafford Street at Grosvenor Avenue, Winnipeg	1921

Sources:

Death registration [Victor Daniel Horsburgh], British Columbia Vital Statistics.

Victor Daniel Horsburgh, Ontario Association of Architects.

Victor Daniel Horsburgh, FindAGrave.

Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada, 1800-1950 by Robert G. Hill, Toronto.

We thank Jordan Makichuk for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 23 February 2024

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