GOOLD (or GOULD), Algernon Hugh William (1856-1906) first appears in Halifax, N.S. in 1873. In that year, the architect W.C. Harris noted in his letters that a 'Mr. Gould' was serving an apprenticeship in the office of Stirling & Dewar, a leading firm in Nova Scotia (inf. PANS, letters of W.C. Harris, 1873). The Halifax City Directory of 1875-76 records 'A.H.W. Gould, architect, son of J.K. Gould, paymaster'. In 1876 Gould was paid $100.00 for a plan of the Hospital for Contagious Diseases at Halifax (PANS, letter from E.H. Keating to the Chairman of the Board of Works, dated 28 Feb. 1876).
He is almost certainly the same 'A.H.W. Goold, Architect' who was active in Brantford, Ont. after 1892 (Brantford City Directory, 1893-94, 137; and 1895-96, 147). In that city he was credited with the design of St. John's Anglican Mission Chapel, Oxford Street, in West Brantford (Canadian Churchman [Toronto], xx, 20 Dec. 1894, 758-9, descrip.). This brick church, in the Gothic style, contained several windows on either side of the nave that '.....called for the admiration of all who see them. Each window consists of three rectangles with square headings filled with Gothic designs' (Brantford Expositor, 8 Dec. 1894, illus. & detailed architectural descrip. of the church). Goold was born at Hastings, Barbados, West Indies and educated in England, and was an architect and civil engineer. After 1900 he served as Superintendent of Military construction for the United States Government in the small city of Vancouver, Washington State. He died in Portland, Oregon on 7 October 1906, and was later buried at Mount Pleasant, Ontario (near Brantford). An obituary and biography of Goold appeared in the Brantford Daily Expositor, 26 October 1906, 1.
WEST BRANTFORD, ONT., St. John's Anglican Mission Chapel, Oxford Street, 1894 (Canadian Churchman [Toronto], xx, 20 Dec. 1894, 758-9, descrip.).
MOUNT PLEASANT, ONT., All Saints Anglican Church, Mount Pleasant Road near Burtch Road, interior fixtures and fittings for this historic church, including rebuilding the chancel, and a carved wood reredos screen in the rear of the altar, c. 1898; still standing in 2023 (Brantford Expositor, 7 June 1924, 13, detailed descrip. in historical article)