McGREGOR, James Wingate (1869 - 1934), active in Montreal, Que. under his own name, and briefly in partnership with Robert Findlay (see list of works under Findlay & McGregor). Born in Aubrey, Que. on 3 October 1869, he trained as a stonecutter, then moved to the United States and worked for five years for one of the largest contracting firms in Boston, Mass. While there, he studied architecture “…at a school connected with Harvard University” (perhaps a night school?). He returned to Montreal after 1895, and in 1897 he collaborated with J.G. Papineau on an elaborate design “…in the French chateau Renaissance style” for the Recorder’s Court Building opposite City Hall in Montreal. He joined the Province of Quebec Assoc. of Architects on 5 July 1898, and in 1902 he prepared an exceptional Shingle Style design for the Nova Scotia Sanatorium at Kentville, N.S. He worked under his own name in Montreal until 1906 when he was invited by Robert Findlay to form a partnership. Their collaboration was a brief one, and was dissolved in early 1907, and McGregor continued to work under his own name until after 1930. He died in Montreal on 17 March 1934 (death notice Gazette [Montreal], 19 March 1934, 7; biog. in Francoise Roux, Canadian Architecture Collection: A Guide to the Archives, McGill Univ., Montreal, 1993, 42-43)
(with J.G. Papineau) MONTREAL, QUE., Recorder's Court & Central Police Station, Notre Dame Street at Le Royer Street, opposite City Hall, 1897 (Gazette [Montreal], 29 May 1897, 2, descrip.; C.R., viii, 3 June 1897, 2; 10 June 1897, 2)
KENTVILLE, N.S., Nova Scotia Sanatorium, 1902-04; demol. 1974 (Leslie Maitland, The Queen Anne Revival Style in Canadian Architecture, 1990, 223, illus. & descrip.; dwgs. at PANS, Gates Collection)
MONTREAL, QUE., residence for Dr. Francois de Martigny, Sherbrooke Street East, near Berri Street, 1909-11 (C.R., xxiii, 25 Aug. 1909, 21; Montreal, Les Residences, 1987, 455-57, illus.)
MONTREAL, QUE., residence for Helen Knowles, Grey Avenue, 1911 (C.R., xxv, 30 Aug. 1911, 61)
MONTREAL, QUE., residence for Treffle Bastien, Sherbrooke Street East near St. Denis Street, 1911-12 (C.R., xxv, 18 Oct. 1911, 57)
WESTMOUNT, residence for James Laurin, Redfern Avenue near de Maisonneuve Boulevard, 1913 (Montreal, Les Residences, 1987, 402-03, illus.)
OUTREMONT, addition and alterations to residence for C. McFarland, Hazelwood Avenue, 1923 (Outremont b.p. No. 1612, 14 April 1923)