Evans, John

EVANS, John (1872-1944) spent his entire professional career in Galt, Ont. where he practised from 1910 onward. Born in York County near Toronto on 15 September 1872, he ‘made a study of architecture in the early years while engaged in the building trade’ and moved to the Galt area after 1900. He worked as a sole practitioner except during 1914 when he collaborated with Henry G. Fulford on a competent Beaux-Arts design for the Town Hall at Hespeler. Evans died in Galt on 17 February 1944 (obit. Contract Record [Toronto], 8 March 1944, 28; inf. Ontario Assoc. of Architects)


GALT, ONT., residence for H. Willard, 1911 (C.R., xxv, 22 March 1911, 54, t.c.)

AYR, ONT., Presbyterian Church, 1912 (Free Press [London], 25 May 1912, 5)

(with Henry G. Fulford) HESPELER, ONT., Town Hall, King Street North, 1914 (C.R., xxviii, 29 April 1914, 77)

GALT, ONT., factory for Dodge Metal Hose Co., Beverly Street, 1916 (C.R., xxx, 18 Oct. 1916, 42)

GALT, ONT., Manchester Public School, Dundas Street, 1917 (C.R., xxxi, 21 Feb. 1917, 165-6, illus. & descrip.; Const., x, July 1917, 236-7, illus. & descrip.)

(with Ray Hall) GALT, ONT., Post Office, North Water Street at Dickson Street, 1934 (C.R., xlviii, 8 Aug. 1934, 28-9)