Baker, George Edwin | Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada

BAKER, George Edwin (1844-1928) was an important regional architect in western Prince Edward Island. The son of John Baker, he was born in Bedeque, P.E.I. and began work as a carpenter and travelled extensively through Colorado, the western United States and British Columbia before returning to Summerside, P.E.I. He was an exponent of the Gothic Revival, adept at executing ecclesiastical designs modeled after the prototype for the small English parish church, but usually carried out in the Maritime tradition of wood frame construction rather than stone or brick. Following his death at Summerside on 1 December 1928 he was buried there at People's Protestant Cemetery (obituary in Evening Patriot [Charlottetown] 4 Dec. 1928, 7).

CARDIGAN BRIDGE, P.E.I., Presbyterian Church, 1888 (Examiner [Charlottetown], 10 Jan. 1889, 2, descrip.)
SUMMERSIDE, P.E.I., Methodist Church, Winter Street, 1893-94 (Summerside Journal, 15 Aug. 1894, 3)
SUMMERSIDE, P.E.I., Holman Block, Water Street, 1894 (C.R., v, 1 March 1894, 1)
ALBERTON, P.E.I., rectory for Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church, c. 1894 (H.S. Smith, Historic Houses of Prince Edward Island, 1990, 157, illus.)
GRAND RIVER, P.E.I., extensive alterations and improvements to St. Patrick's Church, Lot 14, 1897 (Charlottetown Herald, 8 Dec. 1897, 3, descrip.; inf. Harry Holman, Charlottetown)
CAVENDISH, P.E.I., Baptist Church, 1902 (Charlottetown Guardian, 28 Oct. 1902, 9, descrip.)
HAZEL GROVE, P.E.I., residence for Joseph E. Bagnall "...near the old site of the Halfway House", 1902 (Charlottetown Guardian, 5 Nov. 1902, 5, descrip.)
SUMMERSIDE, P.E.I., United Baptist Church, Church Street, 1906-07 (Summerside Journal, 25 Dec. 1907, 8, descrip.)
SUMMERSIDE, P.E.I., rebuilding of the Court House and Jail, Central Street, 1907, originally designed by John Corbett in 1874-76 (Charlottetown Guardian, 3 July 1907, 5, t.c.)
SEVEN MILE BAY, P.E.I. [near Borden], St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church, 1908; burned 5 July 1955 (Charlottetown Guardian, 8 Feb. 1908, 1, t.c.; inf. Harry Holman, Charlottetown)
SUMMERSIDE, P.E.I., St. Mary's Anglican Church, Summer Street, 1908 (Charlottetown Guardian, 28 March 1908, 8; J. MacFayden, For the Sake of the Record, 1981, 98-9, illus.)
SUMMERSIDE, P.E.I., Prince County Hospital, Central Street, 1910-12 (J. MacFayden, For the Sake of the Record, 1981, 144-5, illus.)
BREADALBANE, P.E.I., a new church, 1913 (Charlottetown Guardian, 7 May 1913, 12, t.c.)
SUMMERSIDE, P.E.I., The Capitol Theatre, Central Street, 1922 (Charlottetown Guardian, 31 Oct. 1922, 8, descrip.)