Henry Black

Henry Black, CBE (February 14, 1875 – August 29, 1960) was a contractor and real estate developer in Regina, Saskatchewan, where he served as mayor, and from 1931 to 1934 he chaired the Saskatchewan Relief Commission. Biography Black was born in Kemptville, Ontario, in 1875. After completing his education, he managed the general store at a railway construction camp in Leonard, Ontario. In 1899 he moved to Kaslo, British Columbia, a mining town, where he operated a lumber, coal, and shipping business. He arrived in Regina in 1903 and became a contractor and real estate speculator, benefiting from the fledgling city's construction boom. At first in partnership with Archibald McGregor, and then independently, he built department stores, schools, farmer markets and apartment blocks. In 1910 he married Jennie Barker, and they had five children together. Black's first son, Henry Kenneth "Ken" Black, went on to become a prominent Regina architect.