Mallandaine, Edward Jr.

MALLANDAINE, Edward Jr. (1867-1949), son of Edward Mallandaine, was born in Victoria, B.C. on 1 June 1867 and was educated at public schools in Victoria and in high school in Portland, Oregon. He trained under his father and moved to Vancouver in 1886 where he was present both before and after the Great Fire there on 14 June 1886. The calamity provided him with opportunities to design many new buildings, and he worked as an architect there under his own name and then in partnership with Charles W.H. Sansom in 1888-89. Their partnership was dissolved on 27 April 1889 (Vancouver Daily World, 18 May 1889, 3, advert.). He moved to Seattle and later returned to Victoria in 1891; the following year he was one of sixty competitors from the United States and Canada who submitted entries in the competition for the Legislative Buildings in Vcitoria, but his entry, signed 'Accipe hoc', was not premiated (M. Segger, The British Columbia Parliament Buildings, 1979, 84). In 1893 he was among ten competitors who submitted designs for the North Ward and South Ward Schools, but the juror R. Mackay Fripp was critical of his 'thin, unfinished drawings' and the poorly considered plans and elevations (Daily Colonist [Victoria], 13 July 1893, 8).

Mallandaine continued to work in Victoria until 1898 when his impaired health necessitated a move to the B.C. Interior . He was employed as a civil engineer for the Canadian Pacific Railway and the Great Northern Railway and with Frank G. Little helped to found the town of Creston. He settled there and made a major contribution to the development of the community, working as CPR land agent, irrigation engineer, townsite commissioner, postmaster, magistrate, councillor and later as Reeve of Creston. He died there on 3 August 1949 (obituary in the Daily Colonist (Victoria), 5 Aug. 1949, 3; Creston Review, 4 Aug. 1949, 1; Nelson Daily News, 5 Aug. 1949, 1; biography and port. in W. Cochrane, Canadian Album-Men of Canada, iv, 1895, 74; S.J. Clarke, British Columbia: Pictorial & Biographical, 1914, 764-6; Who's Who in British Columbia, 1937-39, 196; D. Luxton, Building the West: The Early Architects of British Columbia, 2003, 114-15, 511). A lengthy interview with Mallandaine was published in the Revelstoke Review, 15 June 1944. His portrait can be found in Photographic Div. of the British Columbia Public Archives.

MALLANDAINE & SANSOM (works in Vancouver)

SEATON STREET, near Bute Street, residence for G.C. Webster, 1888 (Evening Herald [Vancouver], 13 June 1888, 1; Vancouver Daily World, 31 Dec. 1888, 4)
BARCLAY STREET, residence for James Hartney, 1888 (Vancouver Daily World, 29 Sept. 1888, 3)
BURRARD STREET, residence for F.W. Carlton, 1888 (Vancouver Daily World, 29 Sept. 1888, 5)
ROBSON STREET, residence for James Gillis, 1888 (Vancouver Daily World, 29 Sept. 1888, 5)
CITY MORGUE, adjoining the City Hospital, Pender Street, 1888 (Vancouver Daily World, 19 Oct. 1888, 1, descrip.)
BYRNES BLOCK, Carrall Street facing Powell Street, major addition of three stores for George Byrnes, 1888 (Vancouver Daily World, 29 Sept. 1888, 2, descrip.; and 31 Dec. 1888, 5; descrip.)
CITY HALL, Powell Street, major addition, 1888 (Vancouver Daily World, 2 Oct. 1888, 4; and 5 Oct. 1888, 4; and 31 Dec. 1888, 5)
MOUNT PLEASANT PUBLIC SCHOOL, Westminster Road, 1888-89 (Vancouver Daily World, 31 Dec. 1888, 5; and 3 Jan. 1889, 1)
GRANVILLE BLOCK, Dupont Street at Westminster Avenue, for Frank Granville, 1889 (Vancouver Daily World, 31 Dec. 1888, 5; and 15 March 1889, 1, descrip.)
CARRALL STREET, block for W.C. Hargraves, 1889 (Vancouver Daily World, 16 April 1889, 4, t.c.)
CARRALL STREET, block for Alderman McConnell, 1889 (Vancouver Daily World, 18 April 1889, 1, descrip.)

E. MALLANDAINE Jr. (works in Victoria)

WILSON BLOCK, Yates Street near Douglas Street, a 4 storey commercial block, with four retail stores on the ground floor, 1892 (Victoria Daily Times, 2 March 1892, 5, descrip.)

COMPETITIONS

VICTORIA, B.C., North Ward School and South Ward School, 1893. The office of Mallandaine & Samson was one of 14 architects from the USA and Canada who prepared plans in this competition (Victoria Daily Times, 13 July 1893, 7, descrip. and list of competitors). They submitted three designs, No. 3A, 3B, and 3C. The juror was R. Mackay Fripp of Vancouver stated that on their submissions "....the front elevation is weak" and that ".....neither of these plans convey much information, and are distinctly inferior to the other designs reserved for consideration" The first premium was jointly awarded to Soule & Day, along with W. Ridgeway Wilson.