Landmark Building
BURY RESIDENCE
11122-62 Street, Edmonton
Designed By: Magrath-Holgate & Co
Built By: Magrath-Holgate & Co
Built in 1912
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Ambrose Upton Gledstanes Bury was born in Ireland in 1869. He received an MA degree from Trinity College, Dublin, in 1890 and came to Edmonton in 1912. His sister Evelyn and her husband, Quint Owen, had come in 1903, as had brother-in-law Herbert Owen in 1908. A lawyer in Ireland, Bury registered as a lawyer in Alberta in 1913. After an unsuccessful bid to be an MLA in 1921, he served as a city alderman, mayor of Edmonton East and district court judge. He was also active in the Anglican Church and the Highlands community League.
Of his thirty-four years in Edmonton, Bury lived here for twenty-seven. He purchased the house in 1939, having rented it since 1919. When Margaret, his wife of forty-nine years, died in 1946, Bury sold the house and left Edmonton within a month. He died in Ottawa in 1951, but his funeral was held here, and was laid to rest in the family plot at the Edmonton Cemetery.
Louis Wesley Heard lived in the Bury Residence from 1946 until 1984. Born in Saskatchewan in 1909, he became well-known during his eighteen years as a Social Credit MLA from the 1940s to the 60s. He died in 1987 at age 78.
The $3,600 Bury Residence cost much more than most Edmonton homes in 1912. However, it the least costly of the twenty-four Magrath-Holgate & Co. November 1912 Highlands houses. Stucco obscures the original details, and changes to the porch have altered the front of the house, but the original Four Square Style can still be made out.
The Landmark Buildings and Places Database draws on the series of walking and/or driving tour booklets produced by Alberta Culture (now Alberta Culture and Community Spirit). The Heritage Community Foundation gratefully acknowledges the support of the Ministry through permission to reprint these materials online. Extracted from Historical Walking Tours of Downtown, 2004, Centennial edition of the brochure. Planning and Development Department, City of Edmonton, and Alberta Community Development., 2004, with permission from Alberta Culture and Community Spirit. Visit the Alberta Culture and Community Spirit for more information.