LAING, Alexander (1849- c. 1900), an architect and builder who lived and worked in the town of Essex Centre [now called Essex] in Colchester Township, near Windsor, Ont. He was born in Ontario in 1849, and was recorded as the architect of several institutional and ecclesiastical buildings there, and he is likely the designer of many other residential and commercial buildings in Essex County. No information has been found on his activity after 1896.
ESSEX, ONT., St. Paul's Anglican Church, 1882 (Amherstburg Echo, 28 April 1882, 6; History of St. Paul's Anglican Church 1882-1982; inf. Charles Addington, Anglican Archives, London, Ont.)
ESSEX, ONT., High School, 1886 (Toronto Daily Mail, 5 March 1892, Essex Supplement, 2, illus., and descrip. p. 3; J.G. Hodgins, Schools & Colleges of Ontario 1792-1910, Vol. 2, p. 51)
ESSEX, ONT., a Triumphal Arch, Talbot Street, two blocks south of the railway line, an outdoor archway erected by the Great Southwestern Fair Association, 1895 (Amherstburg Echo, 4 Oct. 1895, 1, descrip.)
ESSEX, ONT., a large grain elevator, Victoria Street, opposite the Post Office, 1896 (Amherstburg Echo, 24 Jan. 1896, 6, descrip.)