MANN, Norman Whitfield (1882-1953), active in Niagara Falls, Ont. from 1919 until after 1950. He designed a number of educational, institutional and industrial buildings in the region of the Niagara Peninsula. Born in Shoeburyness, Co. Essex, England on 29 November 1882, he studied at the Southend Art School and articled with Edward Wright, a local architect in Southend, from 1898 to 1901. He then worked as a draftsman for the firm of Greenhalgh & Brockbank (1901-1911), and emigrated to Canada in 1912 and settled in Montreal where he was employed as a draftsman for Bell Telephone Co. of Canada (1912-13), and for the prominent architectural firm of Hogle & Davis (1913-1917). He then joined Canadian Ingersoll Rand Co. in Sherbrooke, Que. (1917-19), and moved to Niagara Falls, Ont. in April 1919 to join the office of Charles M. Borter as a draftsman. When Borter died in April 1925, Mann bought the business and continued to work under his own name. In 1932 he was asked by another local architect, Claude Findlay, of Findlay & Foulis, to join him in a new partnership, and the firm was renamed Findlay & Mann (R.A.I.C. Journal, ix, July 1932, 178). Their collaboration continued until 1946 (see list of works under Findlay & Mann), and Mann continued to work under his own name until early 1953. Mann died in Niagara Falls, Ont. on 26 January 1953 (obituary Niagara Falls Evening Review, 26 Jan. 1953, 3, with port.; obit R.A.I.C. Journal, xxx, April 1953, 115; biog. Albert E. Coombs, History of the Niagara Peninsula, 1930, 241-42; biog. and list of works in R. Hamilton, Prominent Men of Canada, 1931-32, 21-22; inf. Ontario Assoc. of Architects, Toronto)
RIDGEWAY, ONT., major addition to School Section No. 11, Bertie Township, 1925 (C.R., xxxix, 29 April 1925, 50)
THOROLD, ONT., new public school for S.S. No. 2, Bolton Avenue, Thorold Township, 1927 (St. Catherines Standard, 23 Sept. 1927, 2, descrip.)
NIAGARA FALLS, ONT., Cairns Creameries Ltd., Ellen Street at Magdalen Street, creamery and wholesale grocery warehouse, 1927-28 (C.R., xli, 5 Oct. 1927, 49; xlii, 4 Jan. 1928, 48)
THOROLD, ONT., Roman Catholic Separate School, Sullivan Street, 1928 (C.R., xlii, 9 May 1928, 53-4, t.c.)
NIAGARA FALLS, ONT., Dominion Wineries Ltd., major additions to wine storage buildings at St. Catharines and Oakville, 1928 (Toronto Daily Star, 10 July 1928, 2)
NIAGARA FALLS, ONT., two stores for M. Woolnough, Victoria Avenue, 1928 (C.R., xlii, 3 Oct. 1928, 60)
STAMFORD TOWNSHIP, ONT., major addition to the High School, 1929 (C.R., xliii, 20 March 1929, 68; 17 April 1929, 67, t.c.)
NIAGARA FALLS, ONT., Parish Hall for St. Martin’s Anglican Church, Dorchester Road at High Street, 1935 (P. Mayes, The Story of the Historic Church of All Saints Niagara Falls, 1951, 13)
NIAGARA FALLS, ONT., major addition to bottling plant for Niagara Dry Beverages, Ferry Road, 1946-47 (Financial Post [Toronto], 21 Dec. 1946, 11; C.R., lx, March 1947, 120)
HAMILTON, ONT., major addition to bottling plant for Niagara Dry Beverages, 1946-47 ((Financial Post [Toronto], 21 Dec. 1946, 11)
VIRGIL, ONT., major addition and alterations to Niagara Township Public School, Area No. 1., 1947 (C.R., lx, March 1947, 120)
NIAGARA FALLS, ONT., Niagara Falls Evening Review Newspaper Co., office and printing plant, Valley Way at Morrison Street, 1950-52 (C.R., lxiii, Dec. 1950, 110)