WHITEHEAD, Edwin Amos (1860-c. 1914) was born in Ontario on 28 November 1860 and was active in Toronto from 1878. He was among the local professional architects of the city who attended the inaugural convention of the Ontario Assoc. of Architects in 1889 (C.A.B., ii, Dec. 1889, 136). He moved to Newfoundland after the Great Fire in St. John's in July 1892 and opened an office there (Royal Gazette [St. John's], 20 Aug. 1892) and remained until 1895. By 1898 he was recorded in Vancouver and practised there for fifteen years. In early 1900 he was one of 5 architects who organized the new Vancouver Arts & Crafts Association, intended to promote the progressive Arts & Crafts movement in architecture and design. The other architects who joined him were J.W. Mallory, Arnott Woodroofe", **Robert M. Fripp, and Sidney M. Eveleigh (The Province [Vancouver], 26 April 1900, 9).
In July 1900 he was one of ten local architects from Vancouver who submitted designs in the competition for the new West End School and the East End School in Vancouver, and he was awarded the prize for the East End Public School (also called Admiral Seymour School). No information on his activity after 1920 has been found (D. Luxton, Building the West: The Early Architects of British Columbia, 2003, 486, 523).
ONTARIO
TORONTO, ONT., commercial block of two stores for Mr. Clark, Parliament Street at Carlton Street, 1889 (Telegram [Toronto], 2 March 1889, 3, t.c.; Architectural Era [Syracuse], iii, April 1889, Supplement, 1-2)
TORONTO, ONT., two houses for an unnamed client, John Street near Queen Street West, 1890 (C.R., i, 29 March 1890, 3, t.c.)
GREEN RIVER, ONT., Methodist Church, 1890 (C.R., i, 5 April 1890, 3, t.c.)
TORONTO, ONT., Williams Hotel, Queen Street West at St. Patrick Street, major addition, 1891 (C.R., ii, 25 April 1891, 2)
MARKHAM, ONT., High School, Franklin Street, 1891-92 (C.R., ii, 19 Dec. 1891, 2)
ST. JOHN'S, NFLD.
SONS OF TEMPERANCE HALL, Victoria Street, 1892 (Evening Telegram [St. John's], 9 Nov. 1892, 1, t.c.; Newfoundland Trade Review - Christmas Number 1893, 3, 6, illus.)
QUEEN'S ROAD CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, 1894-95 (Evening Telegram [St. John's], 17 April 1894, 1, t.c.; Newfoundland Trade Review - Christmas Number 1893, 7, illus.)
CUSTOM HOUSE, 1894 (Evening Telegram [St. John's], 10 April 1894, 1, t.c.)
METHODIST ORPHANAGE, 1894 (Evening Telegram [St. John's], 4 May 1894, 1, t.c.)
VICTORIA HALL, 1894 (Evening Telegram [St. John's], 25 June 1894, 1, t.c.)
VANCOUVER
ADMIRAL SEYMOUR PUBLIC SCHOOL, Keefer Street at Vernon Drive, 1900 (Province [Vancouver], 21 July 1900, 6; C.R., xi, 1 Aug. 1900, 3; Vancouver Daily World, 26 Feb. 1901, 8; 17 March 1901, 6; H. Kalman, Exploring Vancouver, 1993, 46, illus.)
LIQUID AIR CO., Yukon Street at West 5th Avenue, large warehouse and factory, 1919 (Vancouver Daily World, 17 Jan. 1919, 13, descrip.)