NOBLES, George E. (1864-1944), active in Saskatchewan and Alberta from c. 1905 until after 1930. Born in the United States, he emigrated to Canada in 1903 and settled in Regina where he was in partnership with George E. Hutchinson in 1906 (see list of works under Hutchinson & Nobles). Their collaboration was brief, and the following year Nobles was working under his own name, and then as a partner with K.G. Anderson, in the new firm of Nobles & Anderson of Prince Albert, Sask., with a branch office in nearby Saskatoon. By 1910 he had moved to Lethbridge, Alta. where he continued to practise until at least 1922. In 1911 he was one of four architects who submitted plans in the competition for the Manual Training School in Lethbridge (Lethbridge Herald, 23 March 1911, 3). His design was set aside in favour of the winning scheme by H.M. & W.A. Whiddington. Nobles remained a resident there until after 1935, and later moved to Niagara Falls, Ont. where he died on 11 July 1944 (obit. Niagara Falls Evening Review, 12 July 1944, 6; obit. C.R., lvii, 2 Aug. 1944, 22).
G.E. NOBLES
PRINCE ALBERT, SASK., new school building, 1907 (C.R., xvii, 30 Jan. 1907, 2)
PRINCE ALBERT, SASK., major addition to existing school, 1907 (C.R., xvii, 30 Jan. 1907, 2)
NOBLES & ANDERSON
PRINCE ALBERT, SASK., large retail store for G. Eaton, 1907 (Const., i, Oct. 1907, 64)
ROSTHERN, SASK., Town Hall, First Avenue at Seventh Street, 1907; demol. Nov. 1980 (Daily Phoenix [Saskatoon], 4 June 1907, 1, descrip.; and 18 June 1907, 1, descrip.; C.R., xviii, 24 July 1907, 2, t.c.; Parks Canada, Town Halls of Canada, 1987, 309, 314 ff, illus.)
PRINCE ALBERT, SASK., a major three-storey addition to Victoria Hospital, 1907 (Daily Phoenix [Saskatoon], 16 July 1907, 3, t.c.; Const., i, Oct. 1907, 65)
PRINCE ALBERT, SASK., residence for Oswald B. Manville, 1907 (Daily Phoenix [Saskatoon], 18 Nov. 1907, 4)
PRINCE ALBERT, SASK., a design for Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Cathedral, 4th Avenue West, "....in the Gothic style", 1907 (Daily Phoenix [Saskatoon], 18 Nov. 1907, 4)
G.E. NOBLES
LETHBRIDGE, ALTA., a theatre building for an unnamed client, 1911 (Lethbridge Herald, 24 Aug. 1911, 2, t.c.)
CARDSTON, ALTA., Bank of Montreal, 1912, later owned by the Royal Bank (dwgs at Premises Div., Royal Bank Archives, Montreal)
KELOWNA, B.C., a public school building with ten classrooms, 1912-14 (Vernon News, 19 Sept. 1912, 8, t.c.; and 8 Jan. 1914, 8; Kelowna Record, 19 Dec. 1912, 6, t.c.)
FORT QU’APPELLE, SASK., St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, 1921 (History of St. Andrew’s United Church, Fort Qu’Appelle 1881-1981, 81)