JAMES, Harold Gillyon (1881-1953) was born in Surrey, England and came to Canada in 1908 or 1909 where he opened an office at Sherbrooke, Quebec. His career was dogged by misfortune: he suffered from total deafness from 1915 onward and in 1935 his office and residence were completely destroyed by fire (R.A.I.C. Journal, xii, Dec. 1935, 212). Despite these setbacks he maintained a successful practise by serving the English-speaking community in the Sherbrooke region, and was sought after as a designer of schools for the Protestant School Boards in that city and in towns in the Eastern Townships. His best known work there includes the Sherbrooke High School (1923) and the Sherbrooke Arena (1929). His died in Sherbrooke on 31 August 1953 (obituary in the Sherbrooke Daily Record, 1 Sept. 1953, 3; obituary The Gazette [Montreal], 2 Sept. 1953, 25; inf. from Province of Quebec Association of Architects)
THETFORD MINES, QUE., residence for A.S. Johnson, 1916 (C.R., xxx, 19 July 1916, 48, t.c.)
SHERBROOKE, QUE., extension to factory for Canadian Ingersoll-Rand Co., Commissioner Street, 1916 (C.R., xxx, 9 Aug. 1916, 45, t.c.)
ASCOT TOWNSHIP, QUE., Ascot Consolidated School, 1918 (H.A. Coates, The Story of Ascot 1803-1948, 65)
SHERBROOKE, QUE., High School, 1923 (C.R., xxxvii, 14 March 1923, 48; and xxxviii, 20 Aug. 1924, 21, illus. in advert.)
SHERBROOKE, QUE., residence for E.A. Tomkins, Portland Street, 1923 (Le Prix Courant, lvi, 29 March 1923, 66)
REPENTIGNY, QUE., Protestant School, Ontario Street, 1923 (Le Prix Courant, lvi, 3 Aug. 1923, 32)
SHERBROOKE, QUE., First Baptist Church, Queen Boulevard North at Portland Boulevard, 1924 (inf. from La Societe d'Historie des Cantons de l'Est, Sherbrooke)
SHERBROOKE, QUE., Masonic Temple, 1924 (C.R., xxxviii, 20 Aug. 1924, 21, illus. in advert.)
POINTE AUX TREMBLES PARISH, in Montreal East, a Protestant school, 1925 (Montreal Daily Star, 25 April 1925, 35, t.c.)
MAGOG, QUE., Protestant High School, 1928 (Montreal Daily Star, 18 April 1928, 26, t.c.; C.R., xlii, 16 May 1928, 63)
FITCH BAY, QUE., Protestant School, 1927 (Montreal Daily Star, 25 Jan. 1927, 20, t.c.)
ST. JOHNS, QUE., Protestant High School, 1928 (C.R., xlii, 12 Sept. 1928, 52, t.c.)
SHERBROOKE, QUE., Civic Arena, for the Eastern Townships Agricultural Association, Park Street, 1929 (C.R., xliii, 12 June 1929, 115; R.A.I.C. Journal, viii, Dec. 1931, 411)
NORTH HATLEY, QUE., Post Office, 1938 (Canada, Summary Classification of Heritage Buildings, by G. Utas, 1982, 55)
SHERBROOKE, QUE., reconstruction of the A.C. Skinner Block, Wellington Street North, 1939 (C.R., lii, 15 March 1939, 37)