Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - 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. Kasuwar Ann (1832), wanda ya tsaya har zuwa Gidan Gidajen Majalisar a Montreal
Ka yi haƙuri. 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).