Memorable Manitobans: James Pender West (1868-1939)

Architect.

Born at Suffolk, England in May 1868, son of George West and Margaret Logan, he was educated in Bungay before apprenticing as an architect. He spent ten years practising his profession in the Cape Colony (South Africa) before coming to Winnipeg in 1909, where he joined the architectural staff of the city power department. He was also active in the city planning movement before the First World War. In 1912 he entered private practice with D. W. F. Nichols. He died in Canada on 25 December 1939.

Some of his buildings in Winnipeg:

• Hekla Apartments (260 Toronto Street), 1910
• Hydro Sub-Station No. 1 (54 King Street), 1910-11
• Allison Apartments / Skjaldbreid Apartments (745 Wolseley Avenue), 1912
• Vinborg Apartments (594 Agnes Street), 1912
• Edgar Court (401 Burrows Avenue), 1913

Sources:

1911 Canada census, Automated Genealogy.

The Story of Manitoba by F. H. Schofield, Winnipeg: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1913.

Dictionary of Manitoba Biography by J. M. Bumsted, Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 1999.

Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada, 1800-1950.

We thank Sara Mazzoni for providing additional information used in this profile.

This profile was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Profile revised: 1 June 2011

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