URRY, Frederick (1863-1927) was active in Port Arthur, Ont. as an architect and labour organizer. Born at Sandown, Isle of Wight he was the son of a contractor and builder and served his apprenticeship with a firm of architects in Birmingham, England. He moved to the Rainy River district of northern Ontario in 1903 and settled at Port Arthur in 1906 where he helped to form the Port Arthur Trades and Labour Council. Urry was to later serve as local correspondent for the Labour Gazette, the official newspaper of the federal Department of Labour, and played a prominent role in labour reform movement in the Thunder Bay area (see essay by Jean Morrison, 'Frederick Urry, Architect: The Wage Earner's Advocate' in Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society Papers, xiv, 1986, 8-22). Urry died at Port Arthur on 2 October 1927 (obituary and editorial in News-Chronicle [Port Arthur], 3 Oct. 1927; obit. The Globe [Toronto], 3 Oct. 1927, 19; biog. Dictionary of Canadian Biography, xv, 2005, 1026-28)
Frederick URRY (works in Port Arthur)
POLICE STATION AND MUNICIPAL COURT BUILDING, Court Street, 1908 (Daily News [Port Arthur], 29 June 1908, 1, descrip.)
FINNISH COOPERATIVE TRADING COMPANY, Bay Street at Secord Street, 1911 (C.R., xxv, 31 May 1911, 61)
SAILOR'S INSTITUTE, Park Avenue, 1912; demol. 1963 (C.R., xxv, 24 May 1911, 60; dwgs. at the Thunder Bay Museum)
SHUNIAH PUBLIC SCHOOL, Shuniah Street, 1925 (News Chronicle [Port Arthur], 27 Nov. 1925, 1, 4, descrip.)
CURRENT RIVER SCHOOL, Leslie Avenue , 1926-27 (News Chronicle [Port Arthur], 15 Jan. 1927)