MEECH, Victor Evelyn (1913-1987), active in Lethbridge, Alta. where he trained under his father H. William Meech, a successful architect in that city. Born on 24 May 1913 in Lethbridge, he was educated there and graduated from the University of Alberta in Edmonton in 1937. He worked as an assistant in his father’s office from 1937 onward. When his father retired from the profession in 1942 and moved to British Columbia, Victor E. continued to operate the office in Lethbridge and was later joined by Maurice S. Mitchell, a civil engineer who became a member of the firm in 1946. After the death of his father in June 1947, their office was renamed Meech, Mitchell & Meech, and after 1951 operated as Meech, Mitchell & Associates. Victor E. Meech was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Architectural Inst. of Canada in 1957. He died in Lethbridge on 14 September 1987 (obit. Lethbridge Herald, 16 Sept. 1987, 2; inf. Beth Wortman, Lethbridge Public Library). The evolution of their firm from 1951 until after 1970 is documented in the exhibition catalogue entitled Lethbridge Modern: Aspects of Architectural Modernism in Lethbridge from 1945 to 1970, pub. 2002, p. 55.
MEECH, MITCHELL & MEECH
(works in Lethbridge)
BIGELOW FOWLER MEDICAL CLINIC, 7th Street South at 5th Avenue South, for Dr. J.K. Bigelow and Dr. D.B. Fowler, 1947 (Lethbridge Herald, 22 March 1947, 6, illus. & descrip.; C.R., lx, May 1947, 128)
TECHNICAL SCHOOL, 1947-48 (C.R., lx, Sept. 1947, 172, t.c.)
ST. JOSEPH’S ROMAN CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL, 18th Street at 5th Avenue South, 1947-49 (C.R., lx, Nov. 1947, 141, t.c.; Lethbridge Herald, 13 Dec. 1949, 10, illus. & descrip.)
POLICE STATION & COURT HOUSE, 5th Street South at 5th Avenue South, 1947-48 (R.A.I.C. Journal, xxv, Feb. 1948, 57, illus.)
COMPOSITE HIGH SCHOOL, for Lethbridge Public School Board No. 51, located “..east of the present Lethbridge Collegiate Institute”, 1948-49 (C.R., lxi, Sept. 1948, 130; Lethbridge Herald, 18 Nov. 1949, 8)
HAIG MEDICAL CLINIC, 6th Avenue at 6th Street South, for Dr. A.A. Haig, 1949 (C.R., lxii, Aug. 1949, 225-26)
CATELLI FOOD PRODUCTS LTD., 13th Street North, opposite 1st Avenue North, near the railway underpass, 1949 (Lethbridge Herald, 8 Oct. 1949, 20, illus. & descrip.)
LETHBRIDGE SPORTS CENTRE & FRITZ SICK MEMORIAL HALL, 11th Street opposite 5th Avenue South, 1948-49 (Lethbridge Herald, 18 Oct. 1949, 10 & 12, illus. & descrip.)
(with Green, Blankstein & Russell) PARAMOUNT THEATRE, 4th Avenue at 8th Street South, 1949-50 (Lethbridge Modern: Aspects of Architectural Modernism in Lethbridge from 1945 to 1970, 2002, 12, illus.)
LETHBRIDGE SASH & DOOR FACTORY, 5th Avenue South at 4th Street, factory, 1950 (C.R., xliii, Jan. 1950, 154)
ARMY, NAVY & AIR FORCE VETERANS CLUB, 6th Street South at Fifth Avenue, 1950 (Lethbridge Herald, 27 Feb. 1950, 7)
LETHBRIDGE HOCKEY ARENA & CURLING RINK, 6th Avenue South at 9th Street South, 1950 (C.R., xliii, May 1950, 146)
(with Mathers & Haldenby) LETHBRIDGE HERALD NEWS CO., 7th Street South at 5th Avenue South, publishing office and printing plant, 1950 (C.R., lxiii, May 1950, 148; Oct. 1950, 158)
(with G.A. McElroy) S.S. KRESGE CO., 5th Street South, retail store, 1950 (C.R., lxiii, June 1950, 128, t..c)
CARNEGIE LIBRARY, 3rd Avenue South opposite 6th Street, major addition, 1950-51 (Lethbridge Herald, 7 Feb. 1950, 6, descrip.; 11 Feb. 1950, 6, illus.)
H. WILLIAM MEECH OFFICE BUILDING, an architectural office for the firm, 6th Street South near 5th Avenue, 1952-53 (Lethbridge Herald, 10 Oct. 1953, 7, illus. & descrip.)
(works elsewhere)
COALDALE, ALTA., public school for Consolidated School District No. 9, 1947 (Lethbridge Herald, 15 Jan. 1947, 12, t.c.)
FOREMOST, ALTA., public school, 1947 (C.R., lx, June 1947, 114)
CROW’S NEST PAST, ALTA., Municipal Hospital, 1948 (Canadian Hospital [Toronto], xxvi, Feb. 1949, 50, illus.)
PICTURE BUTTE, ALTA., public school for Lethbridge School Div. No. 7, 1948 (C.R., lxi, Feb. 1948, 167)
NOBLEFORD, ALTA., public school for Lethbridge School Div. No. 7, 1948 (C.R., lxi, March 1948, 171, t.c.)
BLAIRMORE, ALTA., municipal hospital, 1948 (C.R., lxi, March 1948, 172)
TABER, ALTA., public school for Taber School Division No. 6, 1948 (Lethbridge Herald, 19 May 1948, 16, t.c.)
PINCHER CREEK, ALTA., public school, 1949 (C.R., lxii, June 1949, 116)
PINCHER CREEK, ALTA., major addition to St. Vincent’s Hospital, 1949-50 (Lethbridge Herald, 20 March 1950, 5, descrip.)
MAGRATH, ALTA., municipal hospital, 1950 (C.R., lxiii, Feb. 1950, 124, t.c.; July 1950, 121)
MEDICINE HAT, ALTA., major addition to hotel for George Contalini Co., 1950 (C.R., lxiii, June 1950, 128)