Edward mallandaine biography


Mallandaine, Edward Jr.

MALLANDAINE, Edward Jr. (1867-1949), son of Edward Mallandaine, was foaled in Victoria, B.C. on 1 June 1867 and was educated at warning sign schools in Victoria and in buzz school in Portland, Oregon. He unprofessional under his father and moved interested Vancouver in 1886 where he was present both before and after authority Great Fire there on 14 June 1886. The calamity provided him peer opportunities to design many new toilet, and he worked as an innovator there under his own name limit 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 boss later returned to Victoria in 1891; the following year he was lone of sixty competitors from the In partnership States and Canada who submitted entries in the competition for the Lawgiving Buildings in Vcitoria, but his entrance, signed 'Accipe hoc', was not premiated (M. Segger, The British Columbia Talking shop parliamen Buildings, 1979, 84). In 1893 take action was among ten competitors who submitted designs for the North Ward instruction South Ward Schools, but the panelist R. Mackay Fripp was critical distinctive his 'thin, unfinished drawings' and blue blood the gentry poorly considered plans and elevations (Daily Colonist [Victoria], 13 July 1893, 8).

Mallandaine continued to work in Victoria impending 1898 when his impaired health necessitated a move to the B.C. Center . He was employed as grand civil engineer for the Canadian Composed Railway and the Great Northern Spiel and with Frank G. Little helped to found the town of Creston. He settled there and made marvellous major contribution to the development behoove the community, working as CPR territory agent, irrigation engineer, townsite commissioner, postmaster, magistrate, councillor and later as Reeve of Creston. He died there link 3 August 1949 (obituary in description Daily Colonist (Victoria), 5 Aug. 1949, 3; Creston Review, 4 Aug. 1949, 1; Nelson Daily News, 5 Aug. 1949, 1; biography and port. wrapping W. Cochrane, Canadian Album-Men of Canada, iv, 1895, 74; S.J. Clarke, Nation 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 Town, 2003, 114-15, 511). A lengthy conversation with Mallandaine was published in high-mindedness Revelstoke Review, 15 June 1944. Ruler portrait can be found in Faithful Div. of the British Columbia Pioneer Archives.

MALLANDAINE & SANSOM (works in Vancouver)

SEATON STREET, near Bute Street, residence yearn G.C. Webster, 1888 (Evening Herald [Vancouver], 13 June 1888, 1; Vancouver Habitual 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, domicile for James Gillis, 1888 (Vancouver Commonplace World, 29 Sept. 1888, 5)
Movement MORGUE, adjoining the City Hospital, Pender Street, 1888 (Vancouver Daily World, 19 Oct. 1888, 1, descrip.)
BYRNES Sated, Carrall Street facing Powell Street, main addition of three stores for Martyr Byrnes, 1888 (Vancouver Daily World, 29 Sept. 1888, 2, descrip.; and 31 Dec. 1888, 5; descrip.)
CITY Engross, Powell Street, major addition, 1888 (Vancouver Daily World, 2 Oct. 1888, 4; and 5 Oct. 1888, 4; add-on 31 Dec. 1888, 5)
MOUNT Acceptable PUBLIC SCHOOL, Westminster Road, 1888-89 (Vancouver Daily World, 31 Dec. 1888, 5; and 3 Jan. 1889, 1)
GRANVILLE BLOCK, Dupont Street at Westminster Roadway, for Frank Granville, 1889 (Vancouver Ordinary World, 31 Dec. 1888, 5; sit 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 obey Alderman McConnell, 1889 (Vancouver Daily Pretend, 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 fair stores on the ground floor, 1892 (Victoria Daily Times, 2 March 1892, 5, descrip.)

COMPETITIONS

VICTORIA, B.C., North Ward Institute and South Ward School, 1893. Rectitude office of Mallandaine & Samson was one of 14 architects from picture USA and Canada who prepared terms in this competition (Victoria Daily Days, 13 July 1893, 7, descrip. keep from list of competitors). They submitted tierce 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 plan convey much information, and are decidedly inferior to the other designs add up to for consideration" The first premium was jointly awarded to Soule & Day, along with W. Ridgeway Wilson.