BOURNE, Walter Hargreaves (1874- c. 1919) was born in Darlington, Co. Durham, England on 29 April 1874 and later practised there from 1900 to 1912 where he claimed to have been '...the architect for hotels, private houses, banks, office and mercantile blocks and schools' (Medicine Hat Daily News, 15 Feb. 1913, Industrial Supplement, Section Three, biog. for W.H. Bourne, and Section Eight, biog. for Bourne & Morrison). He arrived in Medicine Hat, Alberta in October 1912 and formed a partnership there with Alexander I. Morrison in 1913, but only two projects by their firm have been located. When Morrison enlisted during WWI and went overseas, Bourne remained in Medicine Hat and specialised in the design of school buildings. He won the competition for a new school in Piapot, Sask. in 1916, and prepared plans for a substantial Technical School in Medicine Hat in 1916, but only the basement was constructed, and the project was later abandoned and the excavation was then covered over (Medicine Hat News, 25 Jan. 1916, 1; C.R., xxx, 9 Feb. 1916, 44). He moved to Saskatoon in the sping of 1919 and opened his own office in the Canada Block in that city. No information on his activity after 1919 has been found (inf. R.I.B.A. [London], Directory of British Architects 1834-1914, 2001, i, 226; inf. Samuel Boisvert, Calgary, Alta.). A biography and photographic portrait of W.H. Bourne was published in the Saskatoon Daily Star, 23 July 1919, 6.
W.H. BOURNE (of Darlington)
HARTLEPOOL, ENGL., York City & County Bank, major alterations and new residence for the Bank Manager, 1900 (The Architect & Contract Reporter [London], Vol. lxiv, 14 Dec. 1900, 376, descrip.; and two full page plates showing Entrance Hall and Inner Hall; and 28 Dec. 1900, 408, and full page plate showing Drawing Room)
BOURNE & MORRISON
MEDICINE HAT, ALTA., Tabor Candy Co., Smelter Avenue, 1914 (C.R., xxviii, 15 April 1914, 79)
MEDICINE HAT, ALTA., City Lavoratory Pavilion, River Park, on the Esplanade, 1914 (Medicine Hat News, 30 April 1914, 4)
W.H. BOURNE
PIAPOT, SASK., a new school building, 1916 (Medicine Hat News, 13 April 1916, 2)
MEDICINE HAT, ALTA., Earl Kitchener School, 1916 (cornerstone inscription "W.H. Bourne, Architect" laid on 20 July 1916; inf. Samuel Boisvert, Calgary, Alta.)
MEDICINE HAT, ALTA., Riverside School, 1916-17 (cornerstone inscription "W.H. Bourne, Arch't" laid on 11 Dec. 1916; inf. Samuel Boisvert, Calgary, Alta.)
COLERIDGE, ALTA., a brick school for Feldman Lake School District No. 190, 1918 (Medicine Hat News, 27 Feb. 1918, 4, t.c.)
SASKATOON, SASK., a large auditorium and indoor skating rink, 1919 (Saskatoon Daily Star, 23 July 1919, 6, illus. and detailed architectural descrip.; C.R., xxxiii, 13 Aug. 1919, 46; Saskatoon Phoenix, 20 Aug. 1919, 3)