![]() ![]() His specifications book from the 1870s includes an immigrant shed, a drill hall, and a penitentiary, as well as the Kent and Saint-Louis gates in Quebec City, planned as part of a project of Lord Dufferin for the city’s fortifications. Watts’s first project with the department was to prepare drawings for the interior fittings of the Library of Parliament, and he also designed the desks surrounding a statue of Queen Victoria. Soon afterwards, he was hired as a draftsman by Thomas Seaton Scott*, chief architect for the Department of Public Works, but he continued to produce illustrations for the Canadian Illustrated News, the Dominion Illustrated (Montreal), and George Monro Grant*’s Picturesque Canada. On 19 July of that year he illustrated a post office designed by architect Walter Chesterton for the Canadian Illustrated News (Montreal). Watts practised as a draftsman, surveyor, and evaluator in London before immigrating to Canada in 1873. The association’s emphasis on drafting skills and professional values was to be evident throughout Watts’s career. In May 1870 he was praised in the Builder (London) for a “Design for a London shop front” shown at the association’s class in design. He trained at its school and in an architectural firm until at least early 1871. 1917 in Ottawa.Īfter an education in a private school John Watts was elected a member of the Architectural Association in London on 22 Nov. 16 July 1872 Elizabeth Blanche Morris, and they had two daughters and two sons d. 26 Aug. ![]() 1850 in Teignmouth, England, son of John Watts, a ship’s purser, and Susan Hurrell m. WATTS, JOHN WILLIAM HURRELL, architect, designer, artist, and civil servant b. ![]()
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