WHITE, Alexander (c. 1830-1909) of Woodstock, Ont. practised there for over forty years. Born in Scotland he came to Canada before 1870 and likely trained under his father David White with whom he was later in practice in the firm of David White Sr. and Alexander White, Architects (Woodstock Sentinel, 17 March 1871, 2, advert.). After the death of his father in 1880 he continued to work there under his own name. He was one of the founding members of the Ontario Assoc. of Architects and attended their first convention in 1889. White died in Woodstock on 9 June 1909 (obit. Contract Record [Toronto], xxiii, 23 June 1909, 34). His eldest son Murray A. White was a partner in the Toronto firm of Burke, Horwood & White, and his youngest son Melville P. White trained with that firm, but chose not to pursue a career in the profession.
Alexander WHITE (works in Woodstock unless noted)
NEW ST. PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH, Wellington Street South at Dundas Street, 1880; still standing in 2023 (Daily Advertiser [London], 14 Jan. 1880, 4, descrip.)
DELATRE STREET, residence for J.E. Dennis, 1881 (Sentinel-Review [Woodstock], 4 Nov. 1881, 4)
PERRY STREET, residence for W.G. Clarke, 1881 (Sentinel-Review [Woodstock], 4 Nov. 1881, 4)
LIGHT STREET, at Henry Street, residence for A.E. Longmore, 1881 (Sentinel-Review [Woodstock], 4 Nov. 1881, 4)
LIGHT STREET, residence for W.H. Eakins, 1881 (Sentinel-Review [Woodstock], 4 Nov. 1881, 4)
IMPERIAL BANK, Market Square at Dundas Street, 1881 (Sentinel-Review [Woodstock], 4 Nov. 1881, 4, descrip.)
unnamed street, residence for W.T. McMullen, 1894 (C.A.B., vii, July 1894, 90, descrip., with plate illus.)
GENERAL HOSPITAL, Brant Street, 1894 (Sentinel-Review [Woodstock], 25 Sept. 1894, 5; 6 July 1895, 4, illus. & descrip.)
GLADSTONE, ONT., Baptist Church, Dorchester Road near Gladstone Drive, 1895; still standing in 2023 (Daily Advertiser [London], 31 Aug. 1895, 5)
(with Burke & Horwood) PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, Hunter Street at Riddell Street, 1896 (C.R., vii, 21 May 1896, 2, t.c.)
EAST ZORRA TOWNSHIP, Hebron Methodist Church, 16th Line at Oxford Road 8, 1899; still standing in 2023 (The Roots of Hebron: A History of Hebron United Church from 1849-1999; inf. Ian Mason, Sarnia)
unnamed street, residence for Mr. Calbeck, 1900-01 (C.R., xi, 12 Dec. 1900, 1)