Hoole, George Bernard Holland | Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada

HOOLE, George Bernard Holland (1873-1963), son of Elijah Hoole of London, England, trained under his father from 1889 until 1896 and attended classes at the Architectural Association in 1892-93. He worked in the office of Charles F. Doll, a leading Edwardian architect in London, from 1898 until 1906 and then emigrated to Canada in 1908 where he settled at Toronto. In 1909 he designed a pair of houses on Lynd Avenue, near Neepawa Avenue, TORONTO, ONT. for the Commercial Brick Co. (Toronto b.p. 15766, 9 June 1909). The following year he prepared plans for a tract of twelve detached houses on Barber Avenue, near Annette Street, TORONTO, ONT., for Jackson & Brooke, Builders (Toronto b.p. 24708, 3 Dec. 1910). Hoole is listed as an architect in Toronto until 1913 when he became Secretary Treasurer of the Willcox Lake Brick Co., a position he held until 1916 (inf. from Royal Inst. of British Architects, London). He returned to England after 1920 and died at Braintree, Co. Essex, on 20 January 1963.