Flater, Nathan George

FLATER, Nathan George (1863- 1948) was active in Edmonton, Alta. where he was in partnership with William S. Edmiston in one of the earliest architectural practices in the city (see list of works under Edminston & Flater). Flater was born in Blenheim, Kent County, Ontario in May 1863 and he moved to Michigan after 1885. In 1889 he was recorded in Bay City, Mich. as a draughtsman in the office of Philip C. Floeter, a prominent local architect there (Directory of Bay City, Michigan, 1889, 207). Flater arrived in Edmonton before 1891. Both he and Edmiston opened an architectural office in June 1893, but their business was dissolved by mutual agreement in early 1899 and Flater moved north to Alaska in April 1899. He was recorded as an architect in Ketchikan, Alaska in 1900, and in 1901 he was living and working on nearby Prince of Wales Island, Alaska. His activity in that Territory was brief, and by 1911 he had returned to his hometown of Blenheim, Ontario, where he is almost certainly the same "Nathan G. Flater" active in 1921 as a house builder in Blenheim.. Flater later died there in 1948, and was buried at Evergreen Cemetery, Blenheim.