R.I.P. 829 Ellice Avenue Tree

© 2022, Christian Cassidy

This big, beautiful tree will be coming down in the days ahead. Its bottom limbs have been dying off and it is doing damage to one of the buildings and it parking lot.

The tree is located between 823 and 829 Ellice Avenue on the side of the latter.

June 25, 1909, Winnipeg Free Press

It is impossible to tell who planted the tree.

The house was built ca. 1906 and had an unsettled first few years. Its first owner was John Kay, a cook, and his family. They stayed just one year and the house was put up for sale at least three times between 1907 and 1911. For many of those years it was operated as a rooming or boarding house.

The first longer-term owner of the house was Alexander Henry who lived there with his wife and three young children from 1915 to 1918. He was at times a clerk at Eatons, a warehouseman at a grocery merchant, and a clerk at Ashdown’s hardware. To afford the house, the Henrys rented out a couple of rooms.

October 30 Update:

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