BROUGHTON, Thomas (1816-1895), of Brantford, Ontario, best known as a builder and contractor, but also recorded as an architect from c. 1870 to 1890. He was born in Barnoldswick, Co. Yorkshire, England in 1816 and emigrated to Canada in 1843. He was, for many years, the superintendent of the Grand River Navigation Co., and in 1870 he was noted as “the stonemason” who built, and may have designed, St. Jude's Anglican Church, Peel Street, BRANTFORD, ONT., 1870, and he also constructed the additions to the workshop of Thomas Tutt, Colborne Street, BRANTFORD, ONT., 1870 (Brantford Expositor, 11 Nov. 1870). His major ecclesiastical work in the area was the design of the Baptist Church, GALT, ONT. (1886-87). Broughton died in Brantford on 23 January 1895 (obituary The Courier [Brantford], 24 Jan. 1895, 4; obit. Daily Expositor [Brantford], 25 Jan. 1895, 12)
BRANTFORD
CRAVEN COTTON MILLS, a new 2 storey brick scutching building, 1881 (Daily Expositor [Brantford], 7 Dec. 1881, 2, descrip.)
HARRIS & SON CO, new factory complex, located "...on the Cockshutt flats", 1882 (Brantford Weekly Expositor, 21 July 1882, 1)
WINCEY MILL CO., a large 3 storey mill and factory, 1882-83 (Daily Expositor [Brantford], 4 Dec. 1882, 2, descrip.)
GRAND RIVER STREET, a mansion for Capt. Cox, Grand River Street, "....with a tower nearly 50 ft. high", 1886 (Brantford Weekly Expositor, 16 April 1886, 1, descrip.)
BRANTFORD COLLEGIATE, major addition for a new Gymnasium wing, 1886 (Weekly Expositor [Brantford], 30 July 1886, 1)
unnamed street, residence for J.T. Slater, 1887 (Daily Expositor [Brantford], 29 Aug. 1887, 1, t.c.)
MARKET STREET, two houses for R.G. Jackson, 1887 (Daily Expositor [Brantford], 5 Seot, 1887, 4, t.c.)
CRAVEN COTTON MILLS, a new brick Boiler House for the cotton factory, 1887 (Daily Expositor [Brantford], 21 Sept. 1887, 4, t.c.)
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH, extensive alterations to the interior and exterior of the Church, 1887 (Thirty Years History of First Baptist Church Brantford 1884-1914, pub. 1914)
CENTRAL SCHOOL, alterations to the School, 1888 (C.A.B., i, March 1888, 7)
PUBLIC SCHOOL, at Holmedale, 1889 (Daily Expositor [Brantford], 27 March 1889, 2, t.c.)
ST. JUDE'S ANGLICAN CHURCH, Peel Street, a new parsonage for the church, 1890 (Daily Expositor [Brantford], 30 Aug. 1890, 4)
KING STREET, at Dalhousie Street, commercial block for Thomas Palmer, 1891 (Daily Expositor [Brantford], 18 May 1891, 4, t.c.)
works elsewhere)
YORK, HALDIMAND COUNTY, ONT, The Barber Hotel, 1862 (M.E. Martindale, Historical Vignettes, 1983, illus. & descrip.; Ontario Heritage Act, designation statement, but credited to "William Broughton" [sic], perhaps the same person as Thomas Broughton of Brantford, located 15 miles to the north of the village of York)
GALT, ONT., Baptist Church, Water Street South, 1886-87 (Dumfries Reformer [Galt], 10 Feb. 1887, 1, descrip.; Galt Reporter, 11 Feb. 1887)