Bunney, William | Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada

BUNNEY, William (1851-1925) worked as a builder and architect in Bowmanville and Newmarket, Ont. from 1885 until 1898. Born in England, he came to Canada in 1871 and was active as a contractor in Durham County before settling in Bowmanville and advertising himself as an architect. His best known work there was a competent design for the Congregational Church, 1890 (burned 1958) which was said to be '...one of the most attractive churches in the town architecturally'. He joined the Ontario Association of Architects on 5 November 1890 (Register of the O.A.A., 1891, 5) and the following year moved to Newmarket, Ont. but abandoned his practice there in 1898 and went to Ottawa to join the W.C. Edwards Manufacturing Co. (C.A.B., xi, June 1898, 110). In 1904 he was recorded as working in Dundas, Ont. (C.A.B., xvii, July 1904, xii). Bunney died in Hamilton, Ont. on 14 August 1925 (obituary in the Spectator [Hamilton] 15 Aug. 1925, 5).

BOWMANVILLE, ONT., South Ward School, Victoria Street, 1889; demol. 1949 (Canadian Statesman [Bowmanville], 11 Sept. 1889, 8)
BOWMANVILLE, ONT., Congregational Church, 1890; burned 1958 (Bowmanville-A Retrospect, 1958, 60)
BOWMANVILLE, ONT., Trinity Methodist Church, Church Street, major additions and alterations (C.A.B., iii, Feb. 1890, 24; The Empire [Toronto], 10 Dec. 1890, 5, descrip.)
NEWMARKET, ONT., manse for the Christian Church, Main Street South, 1891 (inf. Newmarket L.A.C.A.C., 1995)
NEWMARKET, ONT., residence for the architect William Bunney, Main Street South, 1894 (inf. Newmarket L.A.C.A.C., 1995)
NEWMARKET, ONT., major additions and alterations to residence for William C. Widdifield, Prospect Street, 1894 (Newmarket Era, 4 May 1894, 3; inf . Newmarket L.A.C.A.C., ai1995)
NEWMARKET, ONT., Roche & Co. Store, elaborate new staircase inside the retail store "... lately vacated by Brunton Bros.", 1894 (Newmarket Era, 4 May 1894, 3)
NEWMARKET, ONT., residence for David Lloyd, Water Street at Main Street, 1895 (Newmarket Era, 5 April 1895, 2, t.c.; 28 June 1895, 3, descrip.; 13 Dec. 1895, 3, descrip.)
NEWMARKET, ONT., two residences for Isaac Silver, Prospect Street at Timothy Street, 1896 (Newmarket Era, 8 May 1896, 3)
NEWMARKET, ONT., pair of stores on Main Street on the site of the old Saxon Block, 1896 (Newmarket Era, 8 May 1896, 3)
NEWMARKET, ONT., residence for William Brunton, Eagle Street, 1898 (inf. Newmarket L.A.C.A.C., 1995)
NEWMARKET, ONT., conversion of a vacant shop "south of Pipher House", into a residence for Mrs. Ingham Sharpe, 1898 (Newmarket Era, 8 April 1898, 3)