GARVOCK, William Barron (1860-1918) was born in Aberdeen, Scotland and was brought to Canada by his family before 1875. He was educated at the local school in New Edinburgh, Ottawa, and later worked as a draftsman and foreman of the hardwood department for the W.E. Edwards Co. at their mills at the Rideau Falls. Garvock had no formal training as architect, but his activity as a trustee for the Ottawa School Board (1901-05) made him a logical choice to serve a Building Superintendent for the Board, and later as the Architect & Superintendent of School Buildings. From 1905 until 1918 he was responsible for the design and construction of all new public schools in the city of Ottawa, as well as the design of additions to exisiting public schools there. Garvock died in Ottawa on 3 December 1918 (obit. Ottawa Journal, 3 Dec. 1918, 5; Ottawa Citizen, 3 Dec. 1918, 6; biog. and port. Evening Journal [Ottawa], 11 March 1903, 4; and 16 Jan. 1904, 11; and 29 Oct. 1904, 11; Editorial in support of Garvock, 4 Feb. 1905, 4; and 18 April 1914, 24)
OTTAWA
CARTIER STREET PUBLIC SCHOOL, 1905 (C.R., xvi, 10 May 1905, 7; Ottawa Journal, 16 Jan. 1906, 9, descrip.)
CONCESSION STREET PUBLIC SCHOOL, 1905 (C.R., xvi, 10 May 1905, 7)
ARCHIBALD STREET PUBLIC SCHOOL, major addition, 1905 (C.R., xvi, 10 May 1905, 7)
CENTRAL PUBLIC SCHOOL, Crichton Street, 1906; addition 1918-19 completed by W.C. Beattie (H. Cummings, City of Ottawa Public Schools, 1971, 55; Ottawa LACAC Committee, Ottawa: A Guide to Ottawa Structures, 2000, 167, illus.)
MUTCHMOR STREET PUBLIC SCHOOL, major addition, 1911 (C.R., xxv, 5 April 1911, 55; Andrew Waldron, Exploring the Capital: An Architectural Guide to the Ottawa-Gatineau Region, 2017, 98-99, illus. & descrip.)
KENT STREET PUBLIC SCHOOL, major addition, 1912 (C.R., xxvi, 17 June 1912, 72)
ROSEMOUNT AVENUE PUBLIC SCHOOL, 1913 (C.R., xxvii, 12 Feb. 1913, 74; 16 July 1913, 64; 3 Dec. 1913, 64)
BRONSON AVENUE PUBLIC SCHOOL, major addition, 1913 (C.R., xxvii, 20 Aug. 1913, 86; 12 Nov. 1913, 69)
HOPEWELL AVENUE PUBLIC SCHOOL, major addition, 1914 (C.R., xxviii, 18 Feb. 1914, 77; Andrew Waldron, Exploring the Capital: An Architectural Guide to the Ottawa-Gatineau Region, 2017, 106-07, illus. & descrip.)
ELSEWHERE
RENFREW, ONT., Central Public School, 1910 (C.R., xxiv, 13 July 1910, 25-6, t.c.)
ARNPRIOR, ONT., major addition to the High School, 1911 (Evening Journal [Ottawa], 8 Nov. 1911, 10, descrip.)