Memorable Manitobans: Lindsay Alexander Wardell (1879-1962)

Draftsman, architect.

Born at Dundas, Ontario on 13 March 1879, he worked as a draftsman for W. P. Witton of Hamilton (Ontario), Brunner, Knowles and Hubbell (New York City), and Darling & Pearson and Sproatt & Rolph of Toronto before becoming the latter’s Winnipeg representative in 1905-1906. He supervised or prepared plans for two apartment blocks, an addition to Colin H. Campbell’s Main Street store, and houses for E. B. Nash, and J. Thompson. He was a partner with David William Fair Nichols from 1907 to late 1909, with whom he designed homes for E. F. Lang, H. M. Tucker, and Ross and Redmond; a gymnasium addition to the home of H. P. H. Galloway; and the Ontario, Manitoba and Western Land Company Building on Portage Avenue. The partnership dissolved in 1909 and he moved back to Hamilton where he practiced until 1924 then moved to Toronto where he remained professionally active into the 1950s. He died at Toronto on 13 January 1962.

Some of the architectural works in Manitoba included:

Building

Location

Year

Status

Falls House

36 Roslyn Road, Winnipeg

1907

Demolished (September 2023)

Hague House [Clifford Clarke Hague]

Furby Street, Winnipeg

1907

 

Bettes Block

289 Carlton Street, Winnipeg

1907-1908

Demolished (?)

Hutchings House [Elisha Frederick Hutchings]

Wellington Crescent, Winnipeg

1907-1908

 

Stevens Building

396 Notre Dame Avenue, Winnipeg

1908

 

McKenty House

106 Middle Gate, Winnipeg

1909

 

Sources:

J. C. Falls House (36 Roslyn Road), City of Winnipeg Historical Buildings Committee, January 1994.

Winnipeg Buildings Index.

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

We thank Nathan Kramer for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 2 October 2023

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