Wagner, William | Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada

WAGNER, William (1829-1901) practised as a civil engineer and architect in Ottawa after emigrating to Canada from Germany in 1855 (Ottawa Citizen, 20 Sept. 1856, 1, advert.). He is almost certainly the same 'Wm. Wagner' listed as an architect and surveyor in the Montreal City Directory from 1864 until 1869, and he appears to have moved to Toronto after 1870. His name appears as architect for several works tendered in The Globe [Toronto] in April 1871, and later that year he submitted a plan for a Public School at Church Street and Alexander Street, TORONTO, ONT. (Toronto Board of Education Annual Report, 1871). In 1872 Wagner moved to Winnipeg and devoted the rest of his career to surveying lands and Indian Reserves in southern Manitoba. He died in Winnipeg on 25 February 1901 (death notice, Winnipeg Free Press, 26 Feb. 1901, 9; biography and portrait in Ontario Land Surveyors Annual Report, 1931, 125-28).