HATCHARD, Otto Beeston (1879-1945) was recorded as an architect in Vernon, B.C. from May 1910 until 1922. He was born in London, England on 1 April 1879 and became a Member of the Society of Architects in London, a rival professional organization to the Royal Inst. of British Architects. He articled with Herbert M. Caley, an architect in Tunbridge Wells, from 1896 to 1899, then moved to London to become architectural assistant in the office of the Borough Engineer in the Borough of Stepney from 1900 to 1905. He also studied architecture at the London Polytechnic during this period.
Hatchard moved to Khartoum, Sudan, Africa in 1906 and obtained the appointment of Chief Architect to the Soudan Government, and held this post for four years, but in May 1910 he emigrated to Canada and settled in British Columbia (Vernon News, 26 May 1910, 5). He opened an office in Vernon under his own name, and was in partnership with William D. Cromarty, as Hatchard & Cromarty, for a few months in 1911, but continued to work alone from 1912 until December 1915 when he moved to Vancouver "....to take over the business of another architect" who had left to serve during WW1 (Vernon News, 23 Dec. 1915, 5). Hatchard joined the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve in England during WW1, and before he left Canada he formed a partnership in Vernon with Charles Coxall, as Hatchard & Coxall, Architects, leaving the practice in the hands of Coxall while he was absent. He later returned to Vernon in February 1919 and resumed his practice there (Vernon News, 20 Feb. 1919, 10). His commissions included residential, commercial and institutional projects. Hatchard moved to California in 1922, and later died in London, England in November 1945 (obituary The Builder [London], clxix, 23 November 1945, 418; biog. R.I.B.A., Directory of British Architects 1834-1914, Vol. 1, 865; biog. Donald Luxton, Building the West, 2003, 377 & 504).
(works in Soudan, Africa)
PORT SOUDAN, Government Offices, Hospital, Customs House, Officers Quarter’s, schools and prison, 1906-1910 (A.I.B.C., Membership Application, 1920, list of works)
KHARTOUM, Law Courts, 1908; Civic Hospital, Electric Power Station, and other works, 1908-1910 (A.I.B.C., Membership Application, 1920, list of works)
(works in Vernon unless noted)
COLDSTREAM, B.C., residence at Patricia Ranch [at the BX Ranch], for J.L. Jack, “…in the simple English style”, Kalamalka Lake Road, 1910-11 (Vernon News, 15 Dec. 1910, 7)
COLDSTREAM, B.C., residence, stables and bunk house at Patricia Ranch [at the BX Ranch] for M. de Monchicour, 1911 (Vernon News, 31 Aug. 1911, 12, t.c.)
EAST FRANCIS AVENUE, residence for William D. Spice, 1912 (Vernon News, 26 Dec. 1912, Special Holiday Number, 77, illus. & descrip.)
23rd AVENUE, residence for Mackenzie Urquhart, at Pine Grove, 1912 (Vernon News, 26 Dec. 1912, Special Holiday Number, 77, illus. & descrip.)
OKANAGAN STEAM LAUNDRY CO., Seventh Street, 1912 (Vernon News, 26 Dec. 1912, Special Holiday Number, 77, illus. & descrip.)
23rd STREET, residence for Otto B. Hatchard, architect, 1912 (Vernon News, 26 Dec. 1912, Special Holiday Number, 77, illus. & descrip.)
SOUTH 11th AVENUE, in Pine Grove, residence for Ernest D. Watts, 1912 (Vernon News, 29 Feb. 1912, 8, t.c.)
DUKE OF CONNAUGHT OUTDOOR ARCH, 1912; partly demol., with portion of Arch still standing at the Vernon Museum & Archives (Vernon News, 24 Oct. 1912, 7)
OKANAGAN LAKE, residence for Lord de Vesci, 1912 (Vernon News, 26 Dec. 1912, Special Holiday Number, 77, illus. & descrip.)
unnamed street, residence for Major E.S. Ward, c. 1912 (A.I.B.C., Membership Application, 1920, list of works)
unnamed street, residence for Cecil Whitaker, c. 1912 (A.I.B.C., Membership Application, 1920, list of works)
COLDSTREAM, B.C., the new Ladies Agricultural Training College, for the Colonial Intelligence League, 1913 (Vernon News, 12 June 1913, 5)
COLDSTREAM, B.C., major addition to residence for A.W. Giles, 1913 (Vernon News, 13 Nov. 1913, 5, descrip.)
KALAMALKA LAKE, residence at Aberdeen Point for Charles Y. Kinloch, 1919 (Vernon News, 17 July 1919, 12, t.c.; A.I.B.C., Membership Application, 1920, list of works)
SCHUBERT STREET, at Victoria Avenue, residence for J. Vans MacDonald, .....planned on English Garden City lines, 1922 (Vernon News, 14 September 1922, 5, descrip.)