Parr, Thomas H.

PARR, Thomas H. (1849- ) was born in England on 22 February 1849 and immigrated to Canada in 1871. He arrived in Winnipeg in 1873 and served as City Engineer for ten years until 1883. During this period he worked as an architect and designed several structures for the City and for private clients, both under his own name and briefly in partnership in 1881 with William T. Dalton. He was forced to retire from his position with the City in 1883 under suspicious circumstances because he ‘…had made several important blunders during the past year which resulted in serious financial loss to the City’ (Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 5 March 1883, 8). After his dismissal he remained active in Winnipeg as a civil engineer, contractor and surveyor until 1892 when he moved to British Columbia.

T.H. PARR

KEW, STOBART BLOCK, Main Street, 1877 (Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 19 Nov. 1877, 1, descrip.)

FIRE ENGINE HOUSE, with extension to the City Market Hall, Market Square, 1877 (Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 18 Dec. 1877, 1, descrip.; 4 Jan. 1878, 1, descrip.)

EUCLID AVENUE, at Grove Street, residence for J.H. Ashdown, 1877 (Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 25 April 1878, 1, illus. & descrip.)

BANNATYNE AVENUE, at Gertie Street, residence for Andrew Strang, 1880 (Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 27 Feb. 1880, 1, t.c.)

MacDONNELL BLOCK, Main Street, for J.M. MacDonnell and E.L. Reynolds, 1880; demol. 1910 (Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 24 June 1880, 1, t.c.)

JAMES STREET, two houses for Owen E. Hughes, 1880 (Winnipeg Daily Times, 7 May 1880, 1, t.c.)

SPENCER BLOCK, Portage Avenue at Notre Dame Street, for G.B. Spencer, 1880 (Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 6 Sept. 1880, 1, t.c.)

MAIN STREET, banking house for Alloway & Champion, 1880 (Winnipeg Daily Times, 30 Oct. 1880, 1)

McDERMOT AVENUE, residence for Dr. Ferguson, 1880 (Winnipeg Daily Times, 30 Oct. 1880. 1)

GEORGE AVENUE, residence for James Nelson, 1880 (Winnipeg Daily Times, 30 Oct. 1880. 1)

BOUNDARY STREET, residence for James Mulligan, 1880 (Winnipeg Daily Times, 30 Oct. 1880. 1)

HARGRAVE STREET, residence for Rev. O. Fortin, 1880 (Winnipeg Daily Times, 30 Oct. 1880. 1)

STONEWALL, MAN., residence for S.J. Jackson, 1881 (Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 16 Feb. 1881, 1, t.c.)

DUFFIN BLOCK, Main Street at Bannatyne Avenue, for Simon Duffin, 1881 (Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 22 Feb. 1881, 1, t.c.; Winnipeg, 1984-The Year Past, 41-2, illus.)

MAIN STREET, at Alexander Avenue, terrace of four houses for G.F. Carruthers, 1881 (Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 26 Feb. 1881, 1, t.c.)

PARR & DALTON

McDERMOT AVENUE, row of five houses for Thomas Hendry, 1881 (Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 12 April 1881, 1)

BANNATYNE AVENUE, pair of tenements for Andrew Strang, 1881 (Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 12 April 1881, 1)

KENNEDY STREET, house for the McPhillips Estate, 1881 (Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 12 April 1881, 1)

T.H. PARR

CENTRAL FIRE HALL, William Avenue, 1882 (Winnipeg City Archives, City Clerk’s Letter Book No. 2, 1881-83, 353)

SOUTH FIRE HALL, Smith Street, 1882 (Winnipeg City Archives, City Clerk’s Letter Book No. 2, 1881-83, 353)