MOLLARD, William Albert (1897-1975), born in Toronto, Ont. on 14 June 1897, and he studied architecture at the Dept. of Architecture at the Univ. of Toronto from 1914 to 1919. He trained under John Lyle in 1919-22 and 1923-25, and with S.B. Coon & Son in 1922-23. In 1925 he joined the staff of Mathers & Haldenby and remained with them for more than twenty years, working as project architect on the David Dunlap Observatory in Richmond Hill (1932-33) and on the Globe & Mail Building (1937-38). Mollard entered competitions during this period under his own name, and received an Honourable Mention for his design of a modernist residence submitted in the T. Eaton Co. Small House Competition (R.A.I.C. Journal, xiii, July 1936, 129, 136, illus.), and same year his design submitted in the Ontario Government Housing Competition was commended (R.A.I.C. Journal, xiii, Aug. 1936, 156, illus.)
He moved to London, Ont. to assist in the office of O. Roy Moore during WWII, then returned to Toronto to form a partnership with Wilfrid Whaley (as Mollard & Whaley). Mollard died in Bermuda on 5 November 1975 (obituary Toronto Star, 11 Nov. 1975, A 12; inf. William J. Mollard, Toronto)
GRAVENHURST, ONT., residence for E.G. Cautchley, 1937 (C.H.G., xv, Jan-Feb. 1938, 32, illus.)
GRAVENHURST, ONT., residence for W. Bruce Findlay, 1937 (C.H.G., xv, Jan-Feb. 1938, 32,illus.)
GRAVENHURST, ONT., extensive remodelling of Sloan's Restaurant, 1945-48 (Canadian Hotel Review, xxvii, 15 Aug. 1949, 30, 32, illus. & descrip.)