WILSON, Clifford St. John (1888-1978) of Halifax, N.S. was known primarily as a civil engineer in that city, a profession in which he had been educated at the School of Engineering at McGill University in Montreal. In 1920 he formed a partnership in Halifax after 1925 with Harry B. Pickings and the firm of Pickings & Wilson, Civil Engineers, continued to practise until 1932 when the scope of their office work was broadened to include architectural services and well as engineering work. After the dissolution of the firm in 1937 Wilson began to practise both architecture and engineering under his own name. He possessed a specialized knowledge of reinforced concrete construction and often assisted Andrew R. Cobb with the structural design of important commercial and institutional buildings in the Halifax area. He retired in 1952 and died at Wolfville, N.S. on 27 March 1978. A photographic portrait of Wilson can be found at the Nova Scotia Association of Architects office in Halifax (obituary in the Chronicle-Herald [Halifax], 28 March 1978, 34; obituary The Gazette [Montreal], 29 March 1978, 26; biography in M. Rosinski, Architects of Nova Scotia: A Biographical Dictionary, 1994, 282-3; inf. from Garry Shutlak, Halifax)
(works in Halifax unless noted)
ROBERT SIMPSON CO., Chebucto Road, major addition to warehouse, 1940 (C.R., liii, 24 Jan. 1940, 23)
DOMINION STORES LTD., Spring Garden Road, store and offices, 1941 (C.R., liv, 23 April 1941, 31)
(with Ross & MacDonald) ROYAL CANADIAN AIR FORCE HANGAR, c. 1943 (R.A.I.C. Journal, xx, Aug. 1943, 132, illus.)
NOVA SCOTIA LIGHT & POWER CO., Water Street, steam power plant, 1943 (Halifax b.p. 28167, 31 March 1943)
T. EATON & CO., Clifton Street, warehouse, 1946 (Halifax b.p. 31460, 31 May 1946)
A.E. FOWLES LTD., Bilby Street, showroom and garage, 1947 (Halifax b.p. 33599, 19 June 1947)
CITADEL MOTORS LTD., Brunswick Street, showroom and garage, 1947 (Halifax b.p. 33794, 26 Aug. 1947)
(with Andrew R. Cobb) New Victoria General Hospital, South Street at Tower Road, c. 1948; Nurse's Residence, 1949-50 (R.A.I.C. Journal, xxv, Sept. 1948, 333-5, illus.; C.R., lxii, Dec. 1949, 89)
LUNENBURG, N.S., General Hospital, 1948-49 (Canadian Hotel Review, xxvi, 15 Sept. 1948, 80)
NOVA SCOTIA TECHNICAL COLLEGE, Spring Garden Road, laboratories, machine shops, lecture rooms and offices, 1950 (C.R., lxiii, Feb. 1950, 123, t.c.)