STEACY, John Graham Sr. (1815-1888) was born in Wexford Co., Ireland and arrived in Canada in 1832 at the age of seventeen years. He worked as a contractor and builder, and began to advertise his services as an architect in Brockville, Ont. in 1856, offering to “draw plans and specifications for villas, Ornamental Cottages, and merchants shops in the most approved style of Architecture, with detail drawings complete” (Brockville Recorder, 9 Oct. 1856, 3, advert.). He was briefly assisted by his son John G. Steacy Jr., who later became a prominent railway contractor. Nearly twenty years later he was still active as an architect in Brockville (City of Ottawa & Central Canada Directory, 1876, 252). Steacy died in Brockville on 3 July 1888 (obit. Evening Recorder [Brockville], 5 July 1888, 5)
(works in Brockville unless noted)
PEARL STREET WEST, residence for J.G. Steacy Sr., architect, c. 1856 (inf. Douglas Grant, Brockville)
No. 51-55 JAMES STREET WEST, residence for an unnamed client, c. 1856 (inf. Douglas Grant, Brockville)
TOWN HALL & WEST WARD MARKET, King Street West, 1858 (Brockville Recorder, 23 Dec. 1858, 2; Brockville: A Pictorial History, 1972, 88, illus.)
MORRISBURG, ONT., a large Public Exhibition Hall, for the Dundas County Agricultural Society, 1863 (Globe [Toronto], 10 Aug. 1863, 1, descrip.)
PEARL TERRACE, Pearl Street West, a row of three houses, 1875 (inf. Douglas Grant, Brockville)
OXFORD MILLS, ONT., Township Hall for Oxford-on-Rideau, 1875 (Township of Oxford-on-Rideau, Clerk’s Office, Minutes of Council 1874-76, Meeting for 23 May 1874; Parks Canada, Town Halls of Canada, 1987, 294)