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Hugh McCowan
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Architect.
Born at Wardville, Ontario on 27 January 1841, he studied architecture and sanitary engineering at Flint, Michigan before coming to Winnipeg in 1879 and working in the contracting trade for about ten years. He gradually moved into supervision of construction and drawing of plans, after 1905 in partnership with Robert Edgar Davies. He was a member of the Masons and Baptist Church. He died unmarried at St. Boniface on 8 April 1908 and was buried in the Elmwood Cemetery.
Some of his architectural works in Manitoba included:
Building |
Location |
Year |
Status |
Odd Fellows Hall |
72 Princess Street, Winnipeg |
1883-1884 |
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Baptist Church |
Pilot Mound |
1888 |
Closed (1911) |
Winnipeg Collegiate Institute |
Bannatyne Avenue, Winnipeg |
1891 |
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Gretna School No. 336 |
Gretna |
1893 |
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Kay Building |
245 McDermot Avenue, Winnipeg |
1893 |
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Maple Leaf School No. 83 |
Morden |
1893 |
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Stovel Building |
245 McDermot Avenue, Winnipeg |
1893 |
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Calvary Temple / First Baptist Church |
400 Hargrave Street, Winnipeg |
1893-1894 |
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Christie-Broughall Block |
536 Main Street, Winnipeg |
1895 |
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Cypress River School No. 342 |
Cypress River |
1896 |
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First Scandinavian Mission Church |
268 Ellen Street, Winnipeg |
1897 |
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Robert Strang Residence |
82 Carlton Street, Winnipeg |
1900 |
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Brandon College |
270 Eighteenth Street, Brandon |
1901 |
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Martin School No. 870 |
Kelvin Avenue, Winnipeg |
1901 |
Demolished (circa 1917) |
Emerson Baptist Church |
Third Street, Emerson |
1905 |
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Henderson Block |
Princess Street, Winnipeg |
? |
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Winnipeg General Hospital, Jubilee Wing |
Winnipeg |
? |
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Free Press Building |
McDermot Avenue, Winnipeg |
? |
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Sources:
1901 Canada census, Automated Genealogy.
Death registration, Manitoba Vital Statistics.
“Hugh M’Cowan dies after short illness,” Manitoba Free Press, 9 April 1908, page 7.
Winnipeg Building Index.
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We thank Nathan Kramer and Robert Hill for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 25 June 2022
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