MITCHELL, George Gordon (1882-1971) was active in Montreal, Que. at first as a civil engineer, and his name later appears as an architect in the Montreal City Directory in 1912. In 1914 he collaborated with Frederick G. Robb to submit a design in the competition for the new Departmental Buildings in Ottawa. Their scheme, submitted under the name of Robb & Mitchell, was one of 62 entries, and they were among the six finalists. They eventually received a prize of $5,000, but the project itself was later cancelled by the federal government (NAC, RG11, Vol. 2951, File 5307-1-C, dated 14 July 1923). Mitchell later joined the Royal Architectural Inst. of Canada, but his name is absent from membership records of that organization after 1930. He died at Lachute, Que. on 30 October 1971 (death notice Gazette [Montreal], 1 Nov. 1971, 42)
(works in Montreal and area)
B.J. GOGHLIN CO., Stadacona Street, factory, 1910 (C.R., xxiv, 7 Sept. 1910, 28)
McGILL COLLEGE AVENUE, a club house, 1924 (C.R., xxxviii, 13 Feb. 1924, 54)
ST. AIDAN'S ANGLICAN CHURCH, Hamilton Street near Jolicoeur Street, 1926; still standing in 2023 (Gazette [Montreal], 25 Nov. 1926, 13, descrip.; J. Smith, Story of St. Aidan's Church in Ville Emard, Montreal, 1951, 2-5, illus. & descrip.; inf. Scott Edwards)
VERDUN, QUE., St. George's Hospital, Aqueduct Boulevard, 1929 (Canadian Hotel Review, vii, June 1929, 36)