Barnes, William C. | Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada

BARNES, William C. (1858-1931), a native of Sackville, N.S., began his career as an employee of the Intercolonial Railroad and the Canadian Express Co. in Halifax. He moved to Moncton shortly after 1900 and practiced architecture in that city there from 1905 onward. Drawings for some of his commissions that survive reveal his designs to be undistinguished and imitative. He died in Shelburne, N.S. on 31 July 1931 as the result of an automobile accident (obituary in the Daily Times [Moncton], 1 Aug. 1931, 8; Moncton Transcript, 31 July 1931, 1).

SALISBURY, N.B., public school, 1905 (C.R., xvi, 5 April 1905, 2)
LEWISVILLE, N.B., public school, 1907 (Const., i, Oct. 1907, 65)
MONCTON, N.B., residence for Wililam Cowling, 1907 (Const., i, Nov. 1907, 72)
SUSSEX, N.B., residence for Percy P. Gunn, 1907 (Const., i, Nov. 1907, 72)
MONCTON, N.B., residence for Dr. F.A. Taylor, 1910 (C.R., xxiv, 20 July 1901, 27)
HAVELOCK, N.B., school for S.D. No. 8, 1911 (C.R., xxv, 12 April 1911, 53)
MONCTON, N.B., Orange Hall, St. George Street at Archibald Street, 1921 (Moncton Transcript, 27 Aug. 1921, 3; dwgs. at Buildings Dept., City of Moncton)
MONCTON, N.B., Wyse Building, Main Street, c. 1922 (list of works in the Daily Times [Moncton], 1 Aug. 1931, 8)
MONCTON, N.B., David Steeves Building, St. George Street, c. 1922 (list of works in the Daily Times [Moncton], 1 Aug. 1931, 8)
MONCTON, N.B., parsonage for First Baptist Church, c. 1922 (list of works in the Daily Times [Moncton], 1 Aug. 1931, 8)
MONCTON, N.B., residence for an unidentified client, 1924 (C.R., xxxviii, 10 Dec. 1924, 1225, illus. & descrip.)