STROUD, Allan Bertram (1885-1918) was active in Toronto, Ont. from 1902 until 1909 when he moved to Vancouver to continue his career. Born in Ontario on 10 May 1885, he was educated in Toronto and opened an office there under his own name in 1906. The following year he formed a partnership with Ackary F. Saunders, but their collaboration was brief, and ended in late 1908. In 1909 Stroud left Toronto and moved to Vancouver and formed a partnership with James J. Donnellan in 1910 (see works under Donnellan & Stroud). By 1911 he had formed yet another partnership, this time with William Keith. During WWI Stroud became a member of the Royal Naval Canadian Volunteer Reserve, and was serving with the Navy when he died suddenly on 20 September 1918 at the age of 34 years. He was buried at Freetown, Sierra Leone, West Africa (biog. Who’s Who in Western Canada, 1911, 254; biog. in D. Luxton, Building The West: The Early Architects of British Columbia, 2003, 484, 519).
A.B. STROUD (works in Toronto unless noted)
QUEEN STREET WEST, near Elm Avenue, block for two stores and apartments for William McMillan, 1906 (Toronto b.p. 4870, 13 Aug. 1906)
PALMERSTON BOULEVARD, near Harbord Street, residence for Wellington O. McTaggart, 1907 (Toronto b.p. 6881, 8 April 1907)
HURON STREET, at Cecil Street, pair of semi-detached houses for James Mackerrow, 1907 (Toronto b.p. 8325, 3 July 1907; C.R., xviii, 16 Oct. 1907, 6)
BEVERLEY STREET, at Baldwin Street, residence for David Lavine, 1907 (Toronto b.p. 8441, 11 July 1907)
STROUD & SAUNDERS (works in Toronto unless noted)
PETERBOROUGH, ONT., large addition to the Hotel National, 1907 (C.R., xviii, 27 Nov. 1907, 19)
LOYAL ORANGE LODGE, College Street at Euclid Avenue, 1908 (Const., i, April 1908, 65)
ST. CLAIR AVENUE WEST, near Warren Road, residence for Thomas P. Stewart, 1908 (Toronto b.p. 10764, 30 April 1908; C.R., xxii, 27 May 1908, 27)
CLINTON STREET, near Page Street, pair of houses for T. Jones & Co., 1908 (Const., i, May 1908, 67; C.R., xxii, 27 May 1908, 27)
ST. PATRICK STREET, near Grange Road, residence for Patrick Roach, 1908 (Const., i, May 1908, 67)
STROUD & KEITH (works in Vancouver unless noted)
CAROLINE COURT APARTMENTS, Nelson Street between Burrard Street ant Thurlow Street, a ten storey apartment block for E.D. Boucher, 1911, but not built; commission was later awarded to J.P. Matheson & Son (C.R., xxv, 2 Aug. 1911, 62; 20 Sept. 1911, 61; dwgs. at Vancouver City Archives)
LEE’S HALL, Main Street at East Broadway, a 7 storey office block for H.O. Lee, 1911 (C.R., xxv, 20 Sept. 1911, 63; and xxvi, 10 April 1912, 69; Daily Province [Vancouver], 20 April 1912, 29, illus.; and 22 June 1912, 22, descrip.; Vancouver & Victoria Architecturally, 1911, illus.; dwgs. at Vancouver City Archives)
A.B. STROUD (works in Nanaimo, B.C.)
NANAIMO, B.C., four storey brick hotel for Victor Jany, 1912 (C.R., xxvi, 14 Feb. 1912, 68)
NANAIMO, B.C., three storey brick theatre for James Young, for the Nanaimo Amusement Co., Victoria Crescent at Cavan Street, 1912-13 (C.R., xxvi, 14 Feb. 1912, 62; and xxvii, 29 Jan. 1913, 69; Nanaimo Free Press, 28 Dec. 1912, 1, descrip.)