Kammala wannan jumla: An haifi Wells a Norwich, inda ya horar da shi a matsayin masassaƙa. Ya yi aiki a kan facade na St Mary Moorfields a London, bayan da ya zama mai tsarawa, yana nuna ayyukansa a Royal Academy a 1823 da 1828. Da yake amfani da saurin girma da kuma yawan jama'a, ya zo Montreal a wajen shekara ta 1830. Aikinsa na farko shi ne gina sabuwar kurkuku, kuma daga baya ya gina Ste. Ann ta Market (1832), cewa ya tsaya har da
Ƙonewa na Gidajen Majalisar a Montreal. A cikin 1834, John Redpath da Peter McGill sun ba shi izinin tsarawa da gina sabon gida don Cocin Presbyterian na St. Paul. Ya kammala gine-ginen addini da yawa don duk ƙungiyoyi, gami da Chalmers-Wesley United Church, kuma shahararsa ta sa ya sami kwamitocin masu zaman kansu ga wasu manyan mutane na Montreal a cikin Golden Square Mile - kamar Gidan Notman (1845) da Prince of Wales Terrace, wanda aka kammala a 1860 don Sir George Simpson. Tarihin rayuwarsa a cikin The Canadian Encyclopedia, ya bayyana cewa "saboda ɓacewar yawancin ayyukansa, an manta da shi a matsayin mai yanke hukunci game da dandano na gine-gine a farkon Victorian Montreal". Ya mutu a Montreal a ranar 26 ga Afrilu, 1864, kuma ya tsira daga akalla dan daya (G.H. Wells) da 'yar daya (Mrs Deborah Wadsworth).