McCarter, William Duncan | Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada

McCARTER, William Duncan (1891-1961) was active in Newfoundland as both an architect and as an expert in the design of cold storage plants developed for the fishing industry. Born in Preston, England on 9 June 1891 he received an architectural education in England and emigrated to Canada in 1915 where he worked in Edmonton before moving to St. John's, Nfld. in 1919. There he formed a partnership with William Clayton which later became Clayton Const. Ltd. He was the first President of the Newfoundland Assoc. of Architects, and was later in partnership with F.A. Colbourne. Their firm was responsible for a remarkable early modernist work in the city, that for St. Michael's & All Angels Anglican Church, Le Marchant Road at St. Clare Avenue, ST. JOHN'S, NFLD., completed in 1956. McCarter retired in 1960 and died in St. John's on 19 Oct. 1961 (obit. Evening Telegram [St. John's], 20 Oct. 1961, 4)

SHANNON MUNN MEMORIAL ORPHANGE, major addition, 1938 (Newfoundland Quarterly, xxxviii, Oct. 1938, 13-14, descrip.)
WEST FIRE STATION, 1942 (dwgs. Nfld. Dept. of Public Works Office, St. John's)
CORNWALL THEATRE, LeMarchant Road, 1947 (Tim Morawetz, Art Deco Architecture Across Canada, 2017, 201, illus. & descrip.)