PATERSON, C.B. (fl. 1892-1906) was active in Montreal, Que. and Sherbrooke, Que. but no biographical information on him has been found in conventional sources. In 1892 he was one of sixty-five architects who submitted plans in the competition for the Legislative Buildings at Victoria, B.C.. His scheme, prepared under the pseudonym 'Pro lege et grege', was not one of five finalists selected by the jury (M. Segger, The British Columbia Parliament Buildings, 1979, 83). An architect with this name is listed in Sherbrooke, Que. in 1906 (Lovell's Classified Business Directory of the Province of Quebec, 1906, 584). He may be the same "C.B. Patterson" [sic], a draughtsman in the Montreal office of Hutchison & Wood who attempted to murder the Montreal engineer and architect W. McLea Walbank in late 1904. A full account of this incident appeared in the Evening Journal [Ottawa], 12 Dec. 1904, 10, and in The Gazette [Montreal], 13 Dec. 1904, 3.
C.B. PATERSON (works in Montreal)
DRUMMOND STREET, Loyola Jesuit College, for the Jesuit Fathers, 1898 (Le Prix Courant, xxii, Week No. 25, Aug. 1898)
STE. FAMILLE STREET, row of four houses for J.G. Kennedy, 1899 (Le Prix Courant, xxiv, Week No. 7, May 1899; C.R., x, 24 May 1899, 3)
WESTMOUNT, residence for Henry Upton, Springfield Avenue, 1899, (C.R., x, 21 June 1899, 5)
DORCHESTER STREET WEST, near Union Avenue, extensive alterations to two buildings for stores and dwellings for H. Gatehouse, 1899 (C.R., x, 23 Aug. 1899, 4; Le Prix Courant, xxv, Week No. 6, Aug. 1899)
GALL SCHNEIDER OIL CO., St. Etienne Street, 1900 (Le Prix Courant, xxviii, 15 June 1900, 901)
COTE DES NEIGES ROAD, residence for H.L. Rutherford, 1900 (C.A.B., xiii, Sept. 1900, 173)
ST. PETER STREET, at Lemoine Street, three warehouses for Jesse Joseph, 1901 (C.R., xii, 20 March 1901, 3; 29 May 1901, 4; Le Prix Courant, xxxi, 31 May 1901, 850)
COMPETITIONS
MONTREAL, QUE., Board of Trade Building, 1891. Paterson was one of a group of Canadian architects whose plans were rejected for consideration by the Building Committee who would only accept plans by six invited American architects (Montreal Daily Star, 2 March 1891, 8; and 3 March 1891, 8). Many other Canadian architects strongly objected to being excluded from submitting a design. The winners were Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge of Boston.