JENKINS, William Stuart (1909-1984) was born in Winnipeg and graduated from the School of Architecture at the University of Manitoba. He began to practise in Stratford, Ont. in 1939 and is listed under his own name there until 1942. In July 1945 he formed a partnership with Sherman W. Wright and together they opened an office in Kitchener. Jenkins & Wright are best known for their designs of municipal arena complexes in several Ontario towns and for the restoration in 1952 of 'Woodside', the home of William Lyon Mackenzie King located on Wellington Street North in Kitchener, Ont..
JENKINS & WRIGHT (works in the Kitchener-Waterloo region unless noted)
WATERLOO, ONT., fermenting warehouse for Joseph E. Seagram Sons Ltd., Caroline Street at Erb Street, 1946 (C.R., lix, March 1946, 133)
STRATFORD, ONT., new factory for a plastics molding & forming company "....from Detroit", 1947 (Financial Post [Toronto], 1 Feb. 1947, 10)
SOUTHAMPTON, ONT., Canadian Legion Hall, Grosvenor Street, north of High Street, 1948 (Owen Sound Daily Sun-Times, 12 May 1948, 6, descrip.)
KITCHENER, ONT., Weber Hardware Co., wholesale store and warehouse, Queen Street South near Mill Street, 1949 (R.A.I.C. Journal, xxvii, Feb. 1950, 62-3, illus.)
FORT WILLIAM, ONT., Fort William Garden Arena, Miles Street at Vickers Street, 1949-50 (C.R., lxii, Oct. 1949, 145)
KITCHENER, ONT., Memorial Auditorium, East Avenue at Sherbourne Avenue, 1950 (C.R., lxiii, April 1950, 131; R.A.I.C. Journal, xxix, Aug. 1952, 252-3, illus.)
KITCHENER, ONT., Young Men's Christian Association, Queen Street North, 1950 (C.R., lxiii, May 1950, 138)
WATERLOO, ONT., Mutual Life Assurance Co., King Street at Union Street, major addition, 1950 (C.R., lxiii, May 1950, 146)
WATERLOO, ONT., MacGregor Public School, 1950-51 (C.R., lxiii, Dec. 1950, 108)