Massie, Robert | Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada

MASSIE, Robert ( -1918), active in Kingston, Ont. and in nearby Deseronto where he worked as an architect and contractor. Born in Kingston, he was the son of William Massie, and was among the very first members of the Ontario Association of Architects in eastern Ontario, and registered as an architect and member of the organization on 16 October 1890. By 1895 he was recorded as an architect with his own business in Deseronto in 1895 (William T. Comstock, The Architects’ Directory for the United States and Canada, 1895, 93). In 1902 he moved to Ottawa where he obtained a position as an architect with the federal Dept. of Railways & Canals, and may have been responsible for the design of canal and lock buildings as well as railway stations and storage facilities erected by the federal government. Massie died after a long illness in Ottawa on 8 August 1918 and was later buried in Kingston, Ont. (obit. Ottawa Journal, 9 Aug. 1918, 9; Ottawa Citizen, 10 Aug. 1918, 12)