YEIGH, Edmund Heaton (1884-1974), architect and draftsman in Toronto, Ont. who was born there and who obtained his training in various offices in that city. In 1906 he was awarded First Prize for his design of A House of Small Cost in Country Town, part of a competition sponsored by The Canadian Architect & Builder Magazine (C.A.B., xix, March 1906, 48, illus.). That same year, in 1906, he received Second Prize for his drawings of A Village Cross, part of a Toronto architectural studio competition, and cited in C.A.B., xix, March 1906, 34.
Yeigh appears to have served as a draftsman and delineator for the leading Toronto firm of Darling & Pearson. His signature appears on their drawings for the Bank of Nova Scotia building on Melinda Street in 1907 (dwgs C.I.B.C. Archives, Toronto), and in 1908 his signature appears on drawings for the Faculty of Education Building in Toronto, also designed by Darling & Pearson (dwgs. at the University of Toronto Archives). By 1913 Yeigh was working independently, and he completed plans for the Dilworth residence, still standing on Baby Point Crescent, west of Jane Street, overlooking the Humber River. After serving with the Canadian Army during WW1, Yeigh returned to Toronto and later died there on 27 December 1974, and was buried at Mount Pleasant Cemetery.
TORONTO, ONT., large residence for Robert J. Dilworth, Baby Point Crescent, Lambton Mills, Etobicoke, 1913-14 (Const., vii, June 1914, 286, illus.; Canadian Builder & Carpenter (Toronto), iv, July 1914, 28-29, illus. & descript.)