Born in Ontario in November 1877, he came to Winnipeg from Mille Illes, Quebec about 1910 and worked in construction of homes, apartment blocks, and other structures as proprietor of the Taylor Construction Company. On 24 December 1907, he married Elizabeth Scott (1881-1954) at Winnipeg. They lived at 369 Home Street and had no children. He died at the Winnipeg General Hospital on 18 July 1960 and was buried beside his wife in the Brookside Cemetery.
Some of his construction works in Manitoba included:
Building
Location
Year
Status
389 Home Street, Winnipeg
1911
377 Home Street, Winnipeg
1911
81-83 Lenore Street, Winnipeg
1912-1913
395 River Avenue, Winnipeg
1926
165 Ethelbert Street, Winnipeg
1927
72 Lenore Street, Winnipeg
1928
1911 Canada census [Burtlay Taylor], Automated Genealogy.
Marriage registration [Bentley Taylor, Elizabeth Scott], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Obituary [Elizabeth Taylor], Winnipeg Free Press, 10 November 1954, page 23.
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 19 July 1960, pages 21, 33.
Henderson’s Winnipeg and Brandon Directories, Henderson Directories Limited, Peel’s Prairie Provinces, University of Alberta Libraries.
We thank Nathan Kramer and Jordan Makichuk for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 31 July 2023
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