COALES, Harry Reginald (1879-1950), a native of Coombe, Wiltshire, Engl., was born on 20 September 1879, son of George T. and Alice (Heygate) Coales. From September 1895 to May 1900 he articled with the firm of Coales & Johnson at Market Harborough, then moved to Leicester to work as assistant to Everard & Pick until 1903. He was in practice with Harold F. Coales in Sunbury-on-Thames for three years; among his commissions during this period was a scheme for Two Labourer's Cottages (Builder [London], xc, 27 Jan. 1906, 93, descrip. & plate illus.). He moved to London in 1906 and remained there until 1919. After emigrating to Canada he established an office at Guelph, Ont. in 1920 and formed a partnership with Bernard Dangerfield, another British-trained architect, in 1922. In 1925 he resumed practice under his own name until he left Canada in November 1933 and to return to England. Coales died at Cheshunt, Engl. on 4 December 1950 (obit. Architect & Building News [London], xlxviii, 15 Dec. 1950, 637; biog. R. Hamilton, Prominent Men of Canada, 1931-32, 612; inf. Ontario Assoc. of Architects; biog. R.I.B.A., Directory of British Architects 1834-1914, 2001, vol. 1, 398)
COALES & DANGERFIELD
GUELPH, ONT., War Memorial Hall, on the campus of the Ontario Agricultural College (now the University of Guelph), 1923-24 (inf. University of Guelph Archives)
GUELPH TOWNSHIP, residence for an unidentified client, 1924 (C.R., xxxviii, 30 July 1924, 774, illus. & descrip.)
GUELPH, ONT., major alterations and improvements to 'Ker Cavan', the residence of Henry B. Higinbotham, Tyreathlean Street, with a new coach house adjacent, at No. 26 Stuart Street, 1925-28 (Globe & Mail [Toronto], 3 April 2020, p. H5, illus. & descrip.; dwgs. Univ. of Guelph Archives, Allan-Higinbotham Coll.)
GUELPH, ONT., G.B. Ryan & Co. Department Store, Wyndham Street, for Norman Ryan, 1926 (C.R., xl, 26 May 1926, 176, t.c.)
H.R. COALES
ARTHUR, ONT., reconstruction of Grace Anglican Church after a fire, 1926 (Enterprise-News [Arthur], 26 Feb. 1976)
GUELPH, ONT., St. George's Anglican Church, Lower Wyndham Street, interior alterations including new choir stalls, chancel, screen and organ loft, 1927 (P.B. Moore, History of St. George's Anglican Church Guelph 1832-1982, 77)
GUELPH, ONT., Norfolk Street United Church, addition of a new Sunday School, Norfolk Street at Cork Street, 1927 (C.R., xli, 31 Aug. 1927, 50)
GUELPH, ONT., Tolton Mfr. Co. Ltd., Cambridge Street at Norfolk Street, warehouse for Harold R. Tolton, 1929 (C.R., xliii, 28 Aug. 1929, 53)
GUELPH, ONT., Knights of Columbus Hall (now the Civic Museum), Waterloo Street at Dublin Street, alterations and improvements to the former War Veterans Hall, 1931 (dwgs. Guelph Civic Museum)