MINUE, William Edgar (1862 - 1939) was active in York County, New Brunswick. Born in that province on 2 July 1862, he was residing in St. Mary's, N.B. in 1884 when he was recorded to have married Martha Jane Soles on 3 April 1884. In 1901 he was still living and working in St. Mary's, and had already begun his career as an architect there as early as 1899. By 1903 he was listed as an architect residing in nearby Gibson, N.B. (New Brunswick Directory, 1903, 343). The quality of his architectural designs varies widely, from the dull and bleak St. Mary's Department Store, Frederiction (1904), to the magnificent mansion for James McMurray, also in Fredericton (1908), a veritable symphony in the Queen Anne style, and one of most important residential landmarks in the city. Both of these works are now designated heritage properties. He appears to have opened an office in Fredericton after 1900, and maintained his practise there until at least 1918 and beyond (City of Fredericton Directory, 1918, 99). Minue joined the New Brunswick Association of Architects, but retired from that organization in 1933, and his name last appears on provincial Voter's Lists as a "carpenter" residing at Kent Junction, N.B., located north of Moncton. He died at Kent Junction on 27 February 1939 and was later buried at Fredericton Rural Cemetery.
(works in Fredericton unless noted)
BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA, major alterations and improvements to Mr. Pitt's building, for the new Bank of Nova Scotia, 1899 (C.R., x, 8 March 1899, 2)
HARTT BOOT & SHOE LTD., large factory, 1899 (inf. Parks Canada, Ottawa)
WATERLOO ROW, near Lansdowne Street, large residence for Harry G. Chesnut, 1902 (City of Fredericton, Register of Local Historic Places, registered on 27 June 2011)
ST. MARY'S DEPARTMENT STORE, Cliffe Street at Bowlen Street, 1904 (Parks Canada, Canada's Historic Places, designated 23 Nov. 2009)
WATERLOO ROW, near Shore Street, mansion for James F. McMurray, 1908 (Parks Canada, Canada's Historic Places, designated 10 Dec. 2007)
SMITH BROS. LTD., a new foundry, 1911 (C.R., xxv, 6 Sept. 1911, 66)
POLICE STATION, 1925 (dwgs. New Brunswick Provincial Archives, MC 174/2)
ST. ANDREWS, N.B., Municipal Home for Charlotte County, 1928 (C.R., xlii, 18 Jan. 1928, 50)
LIQUOR CONTROL BOARD OF NEW BRUNSWICK, warehouse and offices, 1928 (C.R., xlii, 16 May 1928, 63, t.c.)