JAMES, Edgar Augustus (1874-1927) was active in Toronto and a partner in the prominent firm of architects and engineers known as James, Loudon & Hertzberg, founded in 1911. Collaborating with the engineers Thomas R. Loudon and Charles S. L. Hertzberg (1886-1944) he executed a number of architectural works in the Toronto area, but after the departure of Hertzberg, he founded the new firm of James, Proctor & Redfern (with E.M. Proctor & W.B. Redfern, still active today as Proctor & Redfern,Consulting Engineers). James died in Toronto on 12 February 1927, yet his firm remained active for several years as "architects & engineers", and they prepared a convincing design, in the Moorish style, for the Fire Hall in the west Toronto village of New Toronto in 1930 (obituary The Globe [Toronto], 13 Feb. 1927; biog. H. Morgan, Canadian Men & Women of the Time, 1912, 575; C. Roberts & A.L. Tunnell, Standard Dictionary of Canadian Biography, 1934, i, 280-81).
JAMES, LOUDON & HERTZBERG
TORONTO, ONT., major addition to the National Cash Register Co., Christie Street, to create a convalescent home for WWI veterans, 1918 (Const., xi, Feb. 1918, 72)
HIGHLAND CREEK, ONT., in Scarborough, public school, 1918 (Const., xi, March 1918, 102)
THORNHILL, ONT., public school, 1918 (Const., xi, March 1918, 102)
E.A. JAMES
NEW TORONTO, a tract of 42 detached and semi-detached houses for the New Toronto Housing Commmssion, 8th Street, 1919-20 (C.R., xxxiv, 4 Feb. 1920, 104-06, illus. & descrip.; inf. Michael Harrison, Toronto)
TORONTO, ONT., York County Registry Office, Richmond Street East at Berti Street, 1920 (Toronto b.p. 33344, 11 Aug. 1920)
JAMES, PROCTOR & REDFERN
MIMICO, Fire Hall, Superior Avenue, 1929; extant 2011 but now vacant (dwgs. OA, Horwood Coll.)
NEW TORONTO, Fire Hall, 8th Street near Lakeshore Boulevard, 1930; extant 2011 (Toronto Star, 8 April 1930, 29, illus. & descrip.)