KINNEY, James Bond (1824-1895) of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia was born there on 7 February 1824 and began his career as a shipbuilder at Tusket, N.S. In 1856 he started a lumber supply house with William Haley called Kinney-Haley Co. which fabricated window sashes, doors & blinds for local builders and carpenters. By 1866 the firm had grown and become the Kinney-Haley Manufacturing Co. which offered the services of preparing plans for buildings and undertaking their construction. By the late 1870's Kinney was often being credited as the architect for a variety of residential, commercial and ecclesiastical buildings in towns and villages in Nova Scotia. He was a promoter and builder of the marine railway, he designed and superintended the construction of the woolen mills in Yarmouth, and designed over fifty of Yarmouth's residences. In 1892 or 1893 he moved to Bridgetown, N.S. where his son-in-law resided and died there on 10 March 1895 (obituary in the Yarmouth Times, 12 March 1895, 3; obituary in the Weekly Monitor [Bridgetown], 13 March 1895, 3; biography in J. Lawson, Yarmouth Past & Present, 1902, 491; M. Rosinski, Architects of Nova Scotia: A Biographical Dictionary, 1994, 166; inf. from Garry Shutlak, Halifax).
KINNEY & HALEY (works in Nova Scotia)
YARMOUTH, N.S., Court House, Main Street, 1862-63; burned 1921 (list of works in obituary in the Yarmouth Times, 12 March 1895, 3)
ARCADIA, N.S., Poor's Asylum, on a site overlooking the Chebogue River, 1869-70 (Yarmouth Herald, 4 Aug. 1870, 2, descrip.)
YARMOUTH, N.S., Temple Baptist Church, Argyle Street at William Street, 1870-72 (Yarmouth Herald, 30 June 1870, 2; 18 July 1872, 2)
ARCADIA, N.S., Wesleyan Methodist Church, 1871 (Yarmouth Herald, 22 June 1871, 2)
MILTON, N.S., Baptist Church, 1871 (list of works in obituary in the Yarmouth Times, 12 March 1895, 3)
YARMOUTH, N.S., Oxford Terrace, 1875 (J.M. Lawson, Yarmouth Past & Present, 1902, 566)
YARMOUTH, N.S., Exchange Bank, Main Street at Jenkins Street, 1877 (J.M. Lawson, Yarmouth Past & Present, 1902, 536, descrip.)
J.B. KINNEY (works in Nova Scotia)
WEST PARADISE, N.S. (near Bridgetown), United Baptist Church, Highway 201, near Gravel Pit Road, 1876-82; still standing in 2023 (History of the Village of Paradise, 29, illus.)
ARGYLE, N.S., Baptist Church, 1877-80 (J.M. Lawson, Yarmouth Past & Present, 1902, 537; The Vanguard [Yarmouth], 7 Jan. 1986, 8, illus.)
YARMOUTH, N.S., large 3 storey cotton mill complex, with a central tower, 1881 (Evening Herald [Halifax], 2 July 1881, 3)
MARGARETSVILLE, N.S., Baptist Church, Seaman Street, opposite Spruce Lane, 1882; still standing in 2023 (Christian Messenger [Halifax], 29 March 1882, 8, t.c.)
BRIDGETOWN, N.S., St. James Anglican Church, 1884-85 (Weekly Monitor [Bridgetown], 23 Dec. 1885, 2)
PORT MAITLAND, N.S., Baptist Church, 1884 (J.M. Lawson, Yarmouth Past & Present, 1902, 536)
SOUTH OHIO, N.S., Baptist Church, 1888 (list of works in obituary in the Yarmouth Times, 12 March 1895, 3)
MILTON, N.S., public library, 1889 (Yarmouth Herald, 6 March 1889, 2)
YARMOUTH, N.S., public library, Main Street, 1889 (J.M. Lawson, Yarmouth Past & Present, 1902, 635)
YARMOUTH, N.S., retail store for T.R. Jolly & Co., Main Street, c. 1890 (list of works in obituary in the Yarmouth Times, 12 March 1895, 3)
BRIDGETOWN, N.S., Baptist Church, Granville Street at Freeman Street, 1890; burned April 2024 (list of works in obituary in the Weekly Monitor [Bridgetown], 13 March 1895, 3)
SACKVILLE, N.S., Baptist Church, Main Street, 1890 (Chignecto Post [Sackville], 8 Jan. 1891)
SHUBENACADIE, N.S., Orange Hall, 1892; demol. 1968 (inf. from John McLeod, Halifax)
WEST PUBNICO, N.S., a church, 1892 (Yarmouth Herald, 12 Jan. 1892, 2)
BRIDGETOWN, N.S., Insane Asylum, 1894 (Weekly Monitor [Bridgetown], 9 May 1894, 3)