WORKMAN, Wilburn (1888-1961) active as an architect in northern Ontario and, after WWI, in Cornwall, Ontario for more than thirty years. Born in the village of Mountain (near Kemptville), in eastern Ontario on 27 August 1888, he studied architecture at the Univ. of Manitoba in Winnipeg while working in the Winnipeg office of his brother Ernest R. Workman in 1905-06. He then worked briefly for Victor Horwood in Winnipeg in 1906-07, and moved to Macleod, Alberta to open an office under his own name in 1908-09. In 1910 he relocated to Cochrane in northern Ontario and operated an office there, and moved once again, this time to Sudbury in 1911 to open an office called W. Workman & Co., Architects (Vernon’s Sudbury & Copper Cliff Directory, 1914, 116). One of his partners in that office was George H. Williams. After serving with the Canadian Army during WW1, Workman moved to Cornwall, Ont. in 1927 and operated a successful practise there until after 1939. He appears to have retired from the profession in 1945. Workman died in Toronto on 17 May 1961 (death notice Globe & Mail, 18 May 1961, 45; inf. Ontario Association of Architects). A biography of W. Workman was published in the Cornwall Standard, 3 December 1932, page 2.
CONISTON, ONT., Notre Dame Roman Catholic Church, 1914 (Sudbury Star, 4 April 1914, 1, descrip.)
CORNWALL, ONT., a Memorial Cairn for the Presbyterian Cemetery, Sydney Street at Sixth Street East, honouring the early pioneers of Cornwall, and incorporating 67 early headstones into a four-sided stepped cairn, 1932; still standing as of 2017 (Standard-Freeholder (Cornwall), 15 October 1932, 1 and 10, illus. and descrip.; Ottawa Journal, 7 Nov. 1932, 13, descrip.)
CORNWALL, ONT., rebuilding of a large factory on Marlborough Street South, for an unnamed owner, 1933 (C.R., xlvii, 29 March 1933, 40)
CORNWALL, ONT., rebuilding of a block of stores and apartments at Pitt Street at 3rd Street, 1933 (C.R., xlvii, 6 Sept. 1933, 36)