1 Burke and Horwood

J.C.B. Horwood (1864-1938) was born in Quidi Vidi, Newfoundland. His family moved to Toronto when he was four. Horwood attended the Ryerson School, Jarvis Street Collegiate Institute and the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Science. In 1882, he joined Langley, Langley & Burke until 1890 when he moved to New York and worked as a draftsman at a number of architectural firms. In 1894, he returned to Toronto and entered into a partnership with Edmund Burke (1850-1919). Burke and Horwood's first important commission was the rebuilding of the Robert Simpson store in Toronto. Burke had designed the original store in 1894, but it burned down within weeks of its opening. Horwood had experienced advanced building methods in New York, and Simpson hired the partnership to design a fireproof store in 1895-96. This firm also designed a number of non-conformist churches, including: King Street East Methodist (Toronto, 1902); Memorial Baptist (Toronto, 1896-97); King Street Baptist (Cambridge, 1905); and Fourth Avenue Baptist (Ottawa, 1904). The firm was renamed Horwood and White in 1919 after Burke's death; it existed under that name until 1969. The practice was carried on by Horwood’s son Eric who, in 1979, donated over a century's worth of architectural drawings to the Archives of Ontario.

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