WALLINGTON, Edmund Alfred (1879-1960), active in Vancouver, B.C. in 1912-14, at first in partnership with Arthur Wheatley (in 1912), and later under his own name. Born in Frodeham, England on 15 December 1879, he arrived in Vancouver before 1911 and may have been living and working in Seattle, Wash. before moving to Canada. In 1913 the firm of Wallington & Wheatley were recorded as one of 39 architects from across Canada who submitted an entry in the national competition for the new City Hall in Winnipeg (City of Winnipeg Archives, Council Communications, 1913, Box A 169, Item 9741, list of entrants). Their design was not among the finalists, and the commission was later awarded to Clemesha & Portnall of Regina. In 1916 Wallington returned to Seattle, Wash. where he was recorded as an architect in local City Directories from 1916 until after 1930. He died in Washington State in 1960 (inf. Patrick Gunn, City of Vancouver)
(works in Vancouver)
WALLINGTON & WHEATLEY
ST. JOSEPH’S ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH, at Cedar Cottage, Fleming Street near Dumfries Street, 1911-12 (Province [Vancouver], 1 Aug. 1911, 13, illus. & descrip.)
WEST 10TH AVENUE, near Birch Street, residence for Archbishop Neil McNeil, 1911 (City of Vancouver b.p. issued 29 Aug. 1911)
ST. ANDREW’S ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH, East 49th Avenue near Prince Edward Street, 1912 (City of Vancouver b.p. 194, 2 Jan. 1912)
THE PANAMA BLOCK, Cambie Street at Cordova Street, a three storey brick commercial block with stores and offices, for McConnell, Abbott & Drayton, 1912 (City of Vancouver b.p. 1599, 28 Feb. 1912)
E. WALLINGTON
CHURCH OF OUR LADY OF SORROWS, a new Parish Hall of the church, East Pender Street near Slocan Street, 1913 (City of Vancouver b.p. 5544, 27 Aug. 1913; dwgs. at Vancouver City Archives)
CYPRESS STREET, near Creelman Avenue, addition to residence for Henry J. Overton, 1913-14 (City of Vancouver b.p. 5979, 3 Dec. 1913; Vancouver Daily World, 6 Dec. 1913, 18)
WEST 5TH AVENUE, near Pine Street, residence for E. North, 1914 (City of Vancouver b.p. 6563, 23 April 1914)
(with Hugh A. Hodgson, local associate architect) ST. PETER & ST. PAUL ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH, West 38th Avenue near Cartier Street, 1923 (Journal of Commerce [Vancouver], 5 March 1923, 1, descrip.; Point Grey b.p. 5349, 3 March 1923)