George Wallace Gouinlock

George Wallace Gouinlock (August 1, 1861 – February 13, 1932) was a prominent Canadian architect. Gouinlock practiced mostly in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, including several designated buildings at Exhibition Place.

His son George Roper Gouinlock (18961979) also practised architecture. Son Robert Watson Gouinlock (1892-1966) was a Captain with the Canadian Engineers and served in World War I. Robert was a civil engineer.

Biography Gouinlock was born in 1861 in Paris, Ontario to Walter and Elizabeth Gouinlock. Gouinlock trained in various cities (including Hamilton, Chicago and Milwaukee) towards becoming an architect. He later moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba as a junior architect with Barber, Bowes & Barber. from 1888 to 1890. and President of the Ontario Association of Architects in 1909.

Gouinlock died on February 13, 1932, and is buried at Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Toronto. Allward was the son of sculptor Walter Allward and great-grandfather of Port Perry based landscape architect Hugh Allward. Hugh Allward was succeeded by his nephew Peter L. Allward.

Projects

George Wallace Gouinlock projects

Many of Gouinlock's buildings were Beaux-Arts. His works also feature other architectural styles. Many buildings at Exhibition Place were designed by Gouinlock:

Press Building, 210 Princes' Boulevard 1905 (Beaux-Arts) Music Building, 285 Manitoba Drive 1907 (Beaux-Arts) - formerly Railway Building CNE Grandstand 1907, destroyed by fire 1947 and rebuilt as Exhibition Stadium 1948 Horticulture Building, 15 Saskatchewan Road 1907 (Beaux-Arts) CNE Fire Hall and Police Station, 90 Quebec Street 1912 - (Tudor Revival) CNE Government Building 1912 (Beaux-Arts), 10 Dufferin Street - now Medieval Times Building, formerly Government Building and Arts, Crafts and Hobbies Building

Other works across Toronto and beyond included:

semi detached dwellings at 117-119 Collier Street 1891 Charles Steinle Meat Packing Company, 256 King Street East 1892 (Richardson Romanesque) Manitoba Trust Company Building, Winnipeg (Main Street and Pioneer Street) 1899-1900 - with George Creeford Browne and demolished 1974 Town Hall, St. Marys, Ontario 1901 (Romanesque Revival) Bank of Hamilton, 165 Spadina Avenue 1902 - now CIBC branch Consumer's Gas Company addition, 23 Toronto Street 1904 Sovereign Bank, 172 King Street East 1907 William Peyton Hubbard House, 660 Broadview Avenue 1909 MacLean Building, 345 Adelaide Street West 1914 - formerly Ontario Hydro-Electric Building Art Gallery of Toronto conceptual drawings Alexandra Palace, Toronto - demolished

George Roper Gouinlock projects

Scarborough High School (1922, partially demolished in 1976) - with Burden and Harold Carter Kapuskasing Inn (1927) 1946 Glen Park Public School Toronto - replaced by new school building opened in 1998 1949 - East and West Memorial Buildings, Ottawa 1959 - David and Mary Thomson Collegiate Institute, Scarborough (Lawrence Avenue East); demolished 2020 1961 - Cedarbrae Collegiate Institute, Scarborough 1961 - R.H. King Collegiate Institute, Scarborough - western addition 1962 - York University Field House, Toronto 1966 - West Humber Collegiate Institute, Etobicoke 1965-1968 - McLaughlin Planetarium, Toronto