BAYLY, George Massy (1868-1929) was born in Ottawa, Ont., son of Archer Bayly, and served his apprenticeship in 1888-92 with F.J. Alexander, one of Ottawa's leading architects. By 1893 he had opened his own office and specialized in residential work in Ottawa and surrounding towns. In 1902 he hired William Huber as an assistant, then formed a partnership with him in 1903. Their best known work was the Beaux-Arts design for the Smith's Falls Public Library (1903) which Andrew Carnegie declared was "...the handsomest small library" he had seen (M. Beckman, The Best Gift, 1984, 62-3, illus.). The firm of Bayly & Huber was dissolved in 1908 and Bayly moved to western Canada. Opening an office in Vancouver in 1910 he practiced under his own name until 1913, and then as Bayly & Young in 1914.
Bayly left Canada after 1914 and moved to San Francisco where he continued to practise architecture as a staff architect in the offices of the Southern Pacific Railway. He died in San Francisco on 24 February 1929 and was later buried there (obit. Ottawa, Journal, 26 Feb. 1929, 9). A photographic portrait of Bayly was published in City of Ottawa: Capital of the Dominion of Canada, 1899, item 35 (biog. Metro Toronto Reference Library, Baldwin Room, Sands Collection, pictorial book entitled Ottawa, c. 1907, 6). A biography and sketch portrait of Bayly appeared in the Evening Journal [Ottawa], 15 June 1901, p. 13.
G.M. BAYLY (works in Ottawa unless noted)
YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOC., Slater Street at O'Connor Street, 1892 (Evening Journal [Ottawa], 4 Oct. 1892, 4; 5 Oct. 1892, 4, descrip.)
MANOTICK, ONT., a tower and spire for the Presbyterian Church, 1893-94 (C.R., iv, 20 April 1893, 2, t.c.; Evening Journal [Ottawa], 22 Sept. 1894, 3)
CONCESSION STREET, residence for William Hutchison, 1893 (C.R., iv, 30 March 1893, 2)
CONCESSION STREET, residence for Joseph Foster, 1893 (C.R., iv, 23 Nov. 1893, 2)
GRANT BROS. LTD., Bank Street, commercial block of stores with concert hall above, 1894 (C.R., v, 12 April 1894, 2)
OTTAWA CENTRAL FAIR, Lansdowne Park, new grandstand and entrance pavilion, 1895 (C.R., vi, 23 May 1895, 2)
JAMES STREET, major additions and alterations to residence for William Mason, 1895 (C.R., vi, 18 July 1895, 2)
FRANK STREET, three houses for William Hay, 1895 (C.R., vi, 18 July 1895, 3)
PEMBROKE, ONT., major addition and alterations to residence for Thomas Hale, 1895 (C.R., vi, 18 July 1895, 1)
PEMBROKE, ONT., major additions and alterations to the McAllister property, 1896 (C.R., vii, 21 May 1896, 3)
SAULT STE. MARIE, ONT., residence for the superintendent of the Canal, 1896 (C.R., vii, 28 May 1896, 2, t.c.)
FRANK STREET, residence for Francis H. Nelson, 1896 (C.R., vii, 20 Aug. 1896, 1)
KENT STREET, at Cooper Street, industrial building for John Labatt, 1897 (C.R., viii, 20 May 1897, 3, t.c.)
BANK STREET, at Gilmour Street, commercial block of three stores for Herbert H. Brennan, 1897-98 (C.R., viii, 23 Sept. 1897, 2, t.c.)
BELL STREET METHODIST CHURCH, major addition and alterations, 1898 (C.R., ix, 30 March 1898, 3)
DALHOUSIE STREET, row of six 3-storey shops for an unnamed client, 1898 (Evening Journal [Ottawa], 20 April 1898, 7, t.c.; 22 April 1898, 5; C.R., ix, 27 April 1898, 3)
KIRK'S FERRY, QUE., a Protestant Union Church, on the Gatineau River, 1898; demol. 2003 (Evening Journal [Ottawa], 22 Aug. 1898, 7)
GRANT'S HALL, rebuilding after a fire, to create new Men's Hotel, 1899 (Evening Journal [Ottawa], 14 Jan. 1899, 3)
CAMBRIDGE STREET PUBLIC SCHOOL, Cambridge Street at Arthur Street, 1898-99 (Evening Journal [Ottawa], 11 April 1899, 2, descrip.; H. Cummings, City of Ottawa Public Schools, 1971, 62)
JAMES STREET, near Lyon Street, residence for George H. Popham, 1899 (C.R., x, 1 March 1899, 3, t.c.)
CREIGHTON STREET PUBLIC SCHOOL, major addition, 1900 (C.R., xi, 11 April 1900, 3)
J.L. ROCHESTER & CO., Sparks Street, store for J. Lorne Rochester, 1900 (C.R., xi, 30 May 1900, 3, t.c.)
UPPER OTTAWA IMPROVEMENT CO., Middle Street, office building, 1900 (C.R., xi, 30 May 1900, 3, t.c.)
RUSSELL, ONT., a Presbyterian Church near the town, 1901 (C.R., xii, 27 March 1901, 2)
SPARKS STREET, commercial building for William D. Morris, Mayor of Ottawa, 1901 (C.R., xii, 12 June 1901, 3, t.c.)
RUSSELL, ONT., major addition to public school, 1902 (C.R., xiii, 21 May 1902, 2, t.c.)
CONCESSION STREET, alterations to residence and new stable for Ward C. Hughson, 1902 (C.R., xiii, 28 May 1902, 2, t.c.)
FERGUS, ONT., cold storage building and abattoir for James Beattie, 1902 (Toronto Daily Star, 22 March 1902, 5; C.R., xiii, 18 June 1902, 1, t.c.)
CORNWALL, ONT., Public Library, 1902-03; demol. (C.R., xiii, 30 July 1902, 2)
BAYLY & HUBER (works in Ottawa unless noted)
OTTAWA POLICE STATION, Queen Street, major addition, 1903-04 (Ottawa Journal, 27 March 1903, 6; 13 May 1904, 5, descrip.; C.R., xiv, 1 April 1903, 3)
CHESTERVILLE, ONT., public school, 1903 (C.R., xiv, 29 April 1903, 2, t.c.)
SMITHS FALLS, ONT., Public Library, Beckwith Street, 1903-04 (C.R., xiv, 29 April 1903, 2, t.c.; M. Beckman, The Best Gift, 1984, 63, 70, 129, illus.)
LETHBRIDGE, ALTA., Bank of Montreal, Redpath Street at Crabb Street [now 3rd Avenue South at 6th Street South], 1904 (Evening Journal [Ottawa], 30 May 1904, 7; The News [Lethbridge], 23 June 1904, 3, descrip.; Daily Herald [Calgary], 24 June 1904, 6, t.c.)
CENTRAL CANADA EXHIBITION, Landsdowne Park, Fat Stock Building, 1904-05, to replace the Pavilion designed by Moses C. Edey which had collapsed at an earlier date during construction (Evening Journal [Ottawa], 9 March 1904, 5; C.R., xv, 25 Jan. 1905, 2, t.c.)
G.M. BAYLY (works in Washington State and Vancouver, B.C.)
SEATTLE, WASH., U.S.A., The Canada Pavilion at the Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition, on the site of present campus of the Univ. of Washington in Seattle, 1909; demol. (Vancouver Daily World, 5 Feb. 1909, 15)
VANCOUVER, B.C., Standard Milk Co., Yukon Street, 1912 (dwgs. at Vancouver City Archives)
VANCOUVER, B.C., Fine Arts Building, for the Vancouver Exhibition Association, at Hastings Park, 1913 (Vancouver Daily World, 6 Feb. 1913, 9, descrip.; Province [Vancouver], 8 Feb. 1913, 23, descrip.)