Imlay, John E. | Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada

IMLAY, John E., was active in Halifax, Nova Scotia and is credited with the Gothic design for Chalmbers Free Church, Barrington Street, HALIFAX, N.S., 1849 (Nova Scotian [Halifax], 16 April 1849, 127, descrip.; Cunnabell's Nova Scotia Almanac, 1855, 3). He is almost certainly the same 'Mr. Imlay' who was noted in 1862 as 'well-known in Halifax as a promising architect, having designed and superintended the erection of several buildings in this native city'. In that year he prepared an elaborate plan for development of Smith's Fields Estate, FRESHWATER, N.S., and designed several ornamental cottages in the Spring Gardens, HALIFAX, N.S. (Halifax Express, 24 Nov. 1862, 2; biography in M. Rosinski, Architects of Nova Scotia: A Biographical Dictionary, 1994, 62).