BOULTBEE, William (1832-1902) was an architect, civil engineer and surveyor in Hamilton, Ont. active from 1855 until 1864. Born in Devonshire, England on 15 March 1832 he came to Canada with his father Felix Boultbee and settled at Ancaster, Ont. after 1845. He was educated in private schools in Hamilton and served an apprenticeship as draftsman and surveyor with John G. Howard of Toronto (Ontario Land Surveyors Annual Reports, 1926, 96). He advertised himself as an architect in Hamilton from October 1855 and by 1862 he had accepted the post of Wentworth County Engineer. He left Canada in 1864 to take up the position of Chief Engineer of the Madras Railway in India, but by 1878 he had returned to Toronto and prepared a creditable design for St George's Anglican Church, GEORGETOWN, ONT., 1878 (Georgetown Herald, 24 Aug. 1921, 1, historical article on the church; R. Ruggle, St. George's Church - A History, 1982, 13). Boultbee died at Toronto on 5 November 1902 (obituary in Globe [Toronto], 6 Nov. 1902, 12; Spectator [Hamilton], 6 Nov. 1902, 2).
WINONA, ONT., The Lake House Hotel, c.1861; demol., a large 3 storey hotel located "....10 miles east of Hamilton" . An architectural elevation of this resort hotel appears on single map later drawn and dated 20 October 1869 as prepared by Thomas A. Blyth, Provincial Land Surveyor. This map has survived and is now held in the Map Library of McMaster University in Hamilton (inf. Robert Hamilton, of Hamilton, Ont.)