WILSON, Garnet W. (1882-1966) of Saint John, N.B. was a graduate of the Saint John High School and served an apprenticeship lasting six years with Harry H. Mott, a leading architect in Saint John. In 1903 he moved to Montreal to work in the office of Howard C. Stone and then returned to Saint John to supervise the erection of Stone's design for the Royal Bank, King Street, Saint John, N.B. in 1906. Wilson opened his own office before 1910 and remained in practice for forty-five years until his retirement in 1955. He died in Saint John on 12 July 1966 (obituary in the Evening Times-Globe [Saint John], 15 July 1966, page 2; R.A.I.C. Journal, xliii, Nov. 1966, 5-6)
(works in Saint John unless noted)
LEINSTER STREET, laundry plant for C.E. Vail, 1910 (C.R., xxiv, 23 Nov. 1910, 28)
PROTESTANT ORPHANS HOME, 1923-24 (C.R., xxxvii, 30 May 1923, 126, illus. & descrip.)
SAINT JOHN COUNTY COURT HOUSE, Sydney Street, 1924-25, reconstruction after the fire of February 1919 (C.R., xxxviii, 30 July 1924, 47, t.c.; Saint John Globe, 23 July 1925, 3)
ROTHESAY, N.B., 'Woodside', a country residence for Walter C. Allison, c. 1925 (C.H.G., iv, Jan. 1927, 36, illus.)
PRINCESS STREET, at Charlotte Street, commercial block for Princess Realty, with stores and garage, 1927 (C.R., xli, 5 Oct. 1927, 53)
MASONIC TEMPLE, Germain Street, reconstruction after a fire, 1929 (C.R., xliii, 17 July 1929, 59)
(with Shorey & Ritchie) ST. JOHN COUNTY HOSPITAL, addition of Children's Wing, 1929 (Canadian Hotel Review, vii, April 1929, 34)
SAINT JOHN EXHIBITION GROUNDS, additions and improvements to exhibit buildings and grandstand, 1929 (Evening Mail [Halifax], 26 Aug. 1929, 10, descrip.)
THE FORUM ARENA, Main Street, 1932-33 (Charlottetown Guardian, 31 Oct. 1932, 7, descrip.; C.R., xlvi, 7 Dec. 1932, 34)
CITY HALL, Prince William Street, major addition, 1939 (dwgs. at PANB, Mott Coll. 405A)
CANADA VENEER LTD., Wall Street at Winter Street, factory, 1942-43 (C.R., lv, 16 Dec. 1942, 25)
SACKVILLE, N.B., Mount Allison University, Normandy Hall and Ortona Hall, two student residence buildings for married war veterans, 1947 (J. Leroux & T. Holownia, Vision in Wood & Stone: The Architecture of Mount Allison University, 2016, 116-17, illus. & descrip.)
SIMONDS REGIONAL HIGH SCHOOL, Hickey Road, East Saint John, 1947-48 (C.R., lx, Nov. 1947, 141)