Born in Germany on 7 March 1930, son of John Taubensee (1903-1995) and Mary Schoenrath (1907-1965), he came with his family to Canada later that year and settled at Swan River where his father worked as a building contractor. In 1955, he received a degree in Architecture from the University of Manitoba and moved to Flin Flon where, together with his father, he founded the Taubensee Construction Company. They moved the company to Winnipeg in 1960 and, over the course of years, built over 100 schools and other public buildings around the city and surrounding towns. He died accidentally at his cottage at Clearwater Bay, Ontario on 16 April 2009.
Some of his construction works in Manitoba included:
Building
Location
Year
Status
77 Lumber Avenue, Steinbach
1961-1962
130 Browning Boulevard, Winnipeg
1963
3300 Ness Avenue, Winnipeg
1964-1965
647 School Road, Winnipeg
1967-1968
Demolished (?)
250 Bedson Street, Winnipeg
1967-1968
37 Voyageur Street, Winnipeg
1967-1968
369 Fairlane Avenue, Winnipeg
1968-1969
485 Meadowood Drive, Winnipeg
1976-1979
715 Cathcart Street, Winnipeg
1987
Obituary [John Taubensee], Winnipeg Free Press, 19 October 1995, page 44.
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 20 April 2009.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 19 March 2022
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