SCARLETT, Alfred Benjamin (1883-1946), an architect in Winnipeg, Man. for a brief period before WWI. Born at Wanstead Slip, Co. Essex, England on 26 February 1883, he arrived in Canada before 1912 and settled in Winnipeg. In late 1912 he was one of 39 architects from across Canada who submitted an entry in the national competition for the new Winnipeg City Hall (City of Winnipeg Archives, Council Communications, 1913, Box A 169, Item 9741, list of entrants). He was not among the five finalists, and the firm of Clemesha & Portnall of Regina were later declared as the winners. Scarlett appears to have returned to England after WWI, and died at Wallasey, Co. Cheshire, England on 28 April 1946 (England & Wales, National Probate Calendar, 1946, p. 68).
WINNIPEG, MAN., apartment block for D.H. Bradley, Grosvenor Avenue, 1913 (C.R., xxvii, 15 Oct. 1913, 72)
WINNIPEG, MAN., Evelyn Court Apartments, Westminster Avenue at Aubrey Street, for C.H. Roed, 1914 (City of Winnipeg b.p. 2366, 1914; David Spector, Apartment House Architecture in Winnipeg, 1980)