TREMAINE, Harris Stuart (1866-1938) was active in Halifax, N.S. where he advertised his services as an architect in City Directories from 1892 to 1913. Born on 12 October 1866, he was educated in Halifax, and served an apprenticeship in the office of J.C. Dumaresq. Much of his early career was spent in Halifax operating an office under his own name where his commissions included educational and commercial buildings, the largest of which was The Roy Building (1896-97), a plain, unadorned six storey brick block located on Barrington Street. By 1910, however, there are almost no recorded works by him, but he was able to obtain a position teaching architectural drawing at the Nova Scotia Technical College in 1911 (N.S., Journals of Assembly, 1912).
A lack of construction activity in Halifax may have prompted Tremaine to move to Ottawa where he was appointed as a staff architect in the federal Dept. of Public Works on 9 April 1913 (Canada, Sessional Papers, 1919, No. 30, Civil Service List, 431-35). He rose through the ranks there, and after 1925 he returned to Halifax to serve as the Resident Architect for the D.P.W. in Nova Scotia, overseeing the construction of federal buildings throughout the province. Tremaine died in Halifax on 6 December 1938. (obit. Halifax Herald, 8 Dec. 1939, 13; R.A.I.C. Journal, xvi, Jan. 1939, 21; biog. M. Rosinski, Architects of Nova Scotia: A Biographical Dictionary 1605-1950, 1994, 222).
(works in Halifax unless noted)
COMPTON AVENUE SCHOOL, major addition, 1893 (Morning Herald [Halifax], 5 July 1893, 4, t.c.; Evening Mail [Halifax], 2 Feb. 1894, 7)
BLOOMFIELD SCHOOL, 1894, with addition, 1895; and another large addition, 1905 (Morning Herald [Halifax], 20 June 1894, 5, t.c.; and 4 June 1895, 4, t.c.; Evening Mail [Halifax], 22 May 1905, 4, t.c.)
SPRING GARDEN ROAD, three houses for Alexander Urquhart, 1895 (Halifax Herald, 15 March 1895, 6)
ROBIE STREET, at South Street, residence for Harry Flowers, 1895 (Halifax Herald, 5 April 1895, 5)
HATTIE & MYLUS STORE, Hollis Street at Sackville Street, 1895 (Halifax Herald, 29 April 1895, 3, descrip.)
NORTH PARK STREET CHURCH, a manse for the church, 1895 (Halifax Herald, 22 Oct. 1895, 4)
ROY BUILDING, Barrington Street, backing onto Granville Street, a 5 storey commercial block for Alderman J.E. Roy, 1896-97 (C.A.B., viii, Jan. 1895, 11; Evening Mail [Halifax], 8 Oct. 1896, 1, descrip.; Halifax Herald, 9 Oct. 1896, 9, descrip.; and 13 March 1897, 6)
LE MARCHANT STREET SCHOOL, major addition, 1896 (Halifax Herald, 9 June 1896, 4, t.c.; C.R., vii, 11 June 1896, 2, t.c.)
FARQUHAR BROS., Barrington Street at Blowers Street, commercial block, 1897 (Halifax Herald, 16 Sept. 1897, 6)
BRIDGETOWN, N.S., commercial block for J.S. and H. Ruggles, Queen Street, 1898 (Halifax Herald, 20 Feb. 1898, 4, t.c.; Halifax Herald, 26 Feb. 1898, 4, t.c.)
HALIFAX COUNTY COURT HOUSE, Spring Garden Road, major alterations and improvements, 1898 (Evening Mail [Halifax], 3 Dec. 1898, 3, detailed descrip.)
HOLLIS STREET, commercial block for Robert Stanford, 1899 (Halifax Herald, 4 March 1899, 2,, descrip.)
SHELBURNE, N.S., Court House and Jail, 1902 (Halifax Herald, 21 Feb. 1902, 10, t.c.)
LIVERPOOL, N.S., Hotel Mersey, Main Street at Court Street, for John Glassey, 1904 (Evening Mail [Halifax], 27 Aug. 1904, 3; Morning Chronicle [Halifax], 20 Dec. 1904, 8, descrip.)
YOUNG AVENUE, stable for the residence of Michael Dwyer, 1906 (dwgs. at PANS, Acc. Q-3-1730)
NOVA SCOTIA FERTILIZER CO., Campbell Road, factory, 1906 (Halifax b.p. 263, 14 Nov. 1906)
WINDSOR, N.S., residence for H.B. Tremaine, architect, 1907 (Morning Chronicle [Halifax], 1 Jan. 1908, Second Section, 7, descrip.)
VEITH STREET, residence for Edward Wright, 1907 (Halifax b.p. 366, 15 April 1907)
SKATING RINK, Louisburg Street near Pepperel Street, 1907 (Halifax b.p. 490, 19 June 1907)
UPPER WATER STREET, shop and residence for Thomas Chalmers, 1908 (dwgs. at PANS)
RUSSELL STREET, residence for W.T. Murphy, 1909 (Halifax b.p. 1587, 5 May 1909)
QUINPOOL ROAD, near Chebucto Road, cottage for H.S. Tremaine architect, 1917 (Halifax b.p. 5886, 24 July 1917)
LAWLOR'S ISLAND, Quarantine Station, 1921, with H..S. Tremaine as Local Supervising Architect to the federal Dept. of Public Works (Evening Mail [Halifax], 1 Aug. 1921, 3)