Walter Henderson Shillinglaw (1864-1957)

Engineer, architect.

Born on 29 September 1864 near Stratford, Ontario, he was educated in Missouri before moving with his parents to Brandon in 1882. He attended the School of Science in Toronto. His father was a builder, and together they erected their home in the east end of Brandon where he lived all his life.

Shillinglaw returned to Brandon in 1888 and began designing buildings. From 1906 to 1910, he was civic engineer for the City of Brandon and designed the First and Eighteenth Street bridges. Returning to his private practice, he joined David Marshall in the architectural firm of Shillinglaw and Marshall, which was responsible for the design of many important buildings in Brandon, including the exhibition buildings for the 1913 Dominion Fair. After military service in World War One, he designed First Presbyterian Church (1928) and the Federal Building (1930). He was a member of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada and the Curling Club of Brandon.

Walter Shillinglaw ranks as Brandon’s most important early architect as well as its longest-lived practitioner. He died on 20 November 1957, at the age of 93.

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Profile revised: 26 December 2008

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