HIND, Ader Ebel (1856-1891), also known as Adrien Ebel Hind, was active as an architect and builder in the town of Durham, Grey County, Ont. (Union Pub. Co. Directory of Grey, Ontario & Simcoe, 1887, 146). He is almost certainly the same 'H. Hinds, architect" who prepared a competent Gothic design for Knox Presbyterian Church, Durham, 1882. This church is still standing as of 2021. Born in Port Hope, Ontario in 1856, he was raised there and in nearby Omemee, but the family later moved to South Huron County. Hind may have learned the building trades from his father George Hind, a builder and contractor, and he began business on his own account after 1878. The record of his first marriage in 1878 lists him as contractor and builder, but his second marriage of January 1882 lists him as an architect, and he continued to live and work in Durham until 1890. He later died there on 21 January 1891 (Durham Cemetery, burial site and tombstone for A.E. Hind; inf. G.R. James Witton, London, Ont.)
DURHAM, ONT., McFarlane's Drug Store, 1882 (Grey Review [Durham], 23 Nov. 1882, 2, col. 3; inf. G.R. James Whitton, London)
DURHAM, ONT., Knox Presbyterian Church, Garafaxa Street North at George Street West, 1882; still standing as of 2021 (Grey Review [Durham], 4 Jan. 1883, 2, descrip.; The First Hundred Years 1859-1959 - Knox United Church, Durham, 6, illus.)
DURHAM, ONT., large brick addition of 4 classrooms to the Public School, on the Garafraxa Hill, 1890 (Owen Sound Daily Sun-Times, 28 Jan. 1933, 7, historical article on the school)