NEWLANDS, John Creighton (1884-1958), was the son of William Newlands Jr., a leading architect in Kingston, Ont. from 1883 until after 1920. John C. was born in Kingston on 5 October 1884 and trained in his father's office from 1902 to 1910. He was invited by his father to become a full partner in the Kingston firm of William Newlands & Son in 1910, and continued to work there until 1926 when his father died. John C. then began to practise under his own name in late 1926 and remained active until after 1950. During the Depression, he worked briefly for Colin Drever, and in 1932 both he and J. Arnold Thomson of Belleville, Ont. announced an affiliation or partnership, with dual offices in both Kingston and Belleville (Kingston Whig-Standard, 3 Feb. 1932, 3, advert.). Newlands then continued to operate his own office in Kingston. He later died there on 26 February 1958 (obituary Kingston Whig-Standard, 30 July 1958, 17; inf. Ontario Association of Architects, Toronto).
CATARAQUI CEMETERY, design for a tombstone for his father William Newlands, architect, 1926
ROBERT J. REID & SONS, Princess Street near Sydenham Street, additions and alterations to existing building, 1930, and new alterations, 1936 (Kingston Whig-Standard, 29 March 1930, 19, t.c.; and 21 Aug. 1936, 6, t.c.)
ST. JOHN'S ROMAN CATHOLIC SCHOOL, John Street, 1932 (C.R., xlvi, 2 March 1932, 43; and 20 April 1932, 436; Kingston Whig-Standard, 23 May 1932, 3)
PERTH, ONT., major alterations to factory for the Perth Shoe Co., Sherbrooke Street, 1933 (C.R., xlvii, 2 Aug. 1933, 34)
KINGSTON PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION, a new Electric Meter Building, 1935 (Kingston Whig-Standard, 23 July 1935, 2)
BARRIEFIELD, ONT., Officer's Mess Building, at the Royal Canadian Corps of Signals Depot, for the federal Dept. of National Defense, 1936-37 (C.R., vol. 50, 16 Dec. 1936, 27; and vol. 50, 13 Jan. 1937, 30).