COVERDALE, William Miles (1828 -1884), son of William Coverdale of Kingston, Ont., trained under his father and succeeded him in completing the work begun on Rockwood Asylum, King Street West, KINGSTON, ONT. (Sutherland's Directory of Kingston, 1867, 15). In 1884 he undertook the restoration of the Methodist Church. Queen Street at Clergy Street, Kingston, originally designed in 1864 by John Power. His restoration work on the church was entirely destroyed during a fire in the building in 1886. Coverdale was appointed City Engineer in 1878 and held that post at the time of his death on 11 June 1884 (obituary Daily British Whig [Kingston], 12 June 1884, 3; obituary The Gazette [Montreal], 13 June 1884, 1; biog. Jennifer McKendry, Architects Working in the Kingston Region 1820-1920, 2019, 33, illus.)
PITTSBURGH TOWNSHIP, a private residence, perhaps the summer residence for Sir Richard Cartwright, located at Cartwright Point, 1870, and still standing in 2022 (Daily British Whig [Kingston], 12 Sept. 1870, 2, t.c., Queen's University Archives, Kingston, account book of Wm. Coverdale Jr.; J. McKendry, Architects Working in the Kingston Region 1820-1920, 2019, 33, illus.)
KINGSTON, ONT., restoration work on the Methodist Church, Queen Street at Clergy Street, 1884, but later destroyed by fire in 1886, after the death of Coverdale Jr. in 1884 (Kingston, Buildings of Architectural and Historic Significance, iv, 1977, 64).