Wiggs, H. Ross (Henry Ross), 1895-1986

H. Ross Wiggs, architect and painter, was born in Quebec City in 1895. He studied Architecture at McGill University and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In Montreal, he practiced architecture from 1933 to 1967, primarily on his own and with partners Lawton and Walker from 1955 to 1967. He studied drawing and painting with William Brymner and Maurice Cullen. Wiggs served in the First World War and his war drawings are in the collection of the War Museum in Ottawa. Drawings of houses designed by the architect painter and executed once the houses were completed are in the family collection of his work. Wiggs was also Chairman of the Historical and Fine Buildings Committee from 1953 to 1954. He died in 1986 in Hamilton, Ontario.