Angell, Edward

ANGELL, Edward (fl. 1820-24) was one of the first citizens of Upper Canada to advertise his services as a 'House Surveyor and Architect to lay out Building Estates, draw ground plans, sections, elevations, upon the most approved European and English Customs' (Observer [York] 16 Oct. 1820). He is probably the same 'Edward Angell' who had been active as a real estate agent in Russell Square, London, England in 1813, and who went to the British West Indies in 1815 (OA, Upper Canada Sundries, 23903-06, letter 8 Aug. 1820). Few references can be found to his work in the town of York, although it is known that he constructed the Toronto Mills for Francis W. Small (OA, Upper Canada Sundries, 27474, letter 10 Dec. 1821), and erected the Don River Bridge in 1822 (E. Firth, The Town of York: 1815-34, 1966, 265). By 1823 he had moved to the Niagara Peninsula where he advertised his engineering and surveying services (Niagara Gleaner, 17 May 1823, 3). In September of 1824 he left Canada and appears to have returned to London, England where he founded the Canada Land Agency and practised as a surveyor (Pigot's London Directory, 1827, 1828-29).