Backhouse/Wynter/Gratze

Name: J S Winter
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1926
Event Place: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Event Place (Original): Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Gender: Male
Age: 39
Marital Status: Married
Race: English
Birth Year (Estimated): 1887
Birthplace: England
Immigration Year: 1906
Relationship to Head of Household: Head of Household
Page Number: 12

Household Role Sex Age Birthplace
J S Winter Head of Household M 39 England
Pearl Winter Wife F 20 English
Wm Winter Son M 17 Manitoba

Household ID: 130
Line Number: 28
Digital Folder Number: 105519954
Image Number: 00902

Citing this Record
"Canada, Prairie Provinces Census, 1926," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPLJ-2QRZ : 9 December 2019), Wm Winter in household of J S Winter, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; citing Census, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Library and Archives of Canada, Ottawa.

http://www.historiccanadianart.com/william_winter.htm
Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1909, William Arthur Winter came to know the surrounding prairies well, but his love of the flat, rolling land never really fuelled his artistic imagination. His true attention was towards the human story. Classified as a Canadian post-war modernist, he was a markedly sensitive creator whose figures assumed an almost mythical character--with wit.
Winter studied art under two members of the infamous Group of Seven; Frank H. Johnston and Lionel LeMoine Fitzgerald at the Winnipeg School of Art from 1923-1929. From 1930-1935 he worked as a commercial artist at Brigden’s, Winnipeg while continuing to study art. He moved to Toronto in 1937, and established an advertising firm with Lesley Wookey and Jack Bush in 1942, Wookey, Winter, Bush. Winter’s commercial work included painting cover illustrations for New World Illustrated and McLeans’s magazine.
Living in Toronto from the 1940s onwards, Bill Winter became known in the 1950s for his lively city scenes, many depicting children in a modern realist style. His subjects also include portraits, figures and the prairie landscape. He painted in oil, acrylic, and watercolour, and drew with pencil and coloured chalk.
In the 1960s, Winter taught drawing and painting at the Ontario College of Art and the Artist’s Workshop, both in Toronto. He had 19 exhibitions of his works at the Roberts Gallery in Toronto beginning in 1959. He also travelled and painted in Italy (1963) and Spain (1965), Greece, (1966) and Mexico.
William Winter moved to England to live with his daughter in 1994 and died in 1996.

Name: William Arthur Winter
Event Type: Death Registration
Registration Quarter: Jan-Feb-Mar
Registration Year: 1996
Registration District: Vale Royal
County: Cheshire
Event Place: Vale Royal, Cheshire, England
Birth Date (available after June quarter 1969): 27 Aug 1909
Volume: 3452
Page: 5E

Citing this Record
"England and Wales Death Registration Index 1837-2007," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVZD-YT6V : 4 September 2014), William Arthur Winter, Mar 1996; from "England & Wales Deaths, 1837-2006," database, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : 2012); citing Death Registration, Vale Royal, Cheshire, England, General Register Office, Southport, England.