1 William Hay

William Hay was born in Scotland and received his architectural training from John Henderson of Edinburgh. In the 1840s, he joined the London office of architect George Gilbert Scott (1811-78), who sent him to Newfoundland to act as Clerk of Works on the Anglican Cathedral of St. John the Baptist. He arrived in Toronto in 1852, where he trained future architect Henry Langley (1836-1907). Hay became vice-president of the Mechanics Institute and secretary of the Association of Architects Civil Engineers and Provincial Surveyors of Canada. Important ecclesiological designs include: St. Basil’s Roman Catholic (Toronto, 1855); St. George’s Anglican (Pickering, 1856); St. George’s Anglican (Newcastle, 1857); and St. Andrews Presbyterian (Guelph, 1857). Hay left Toronto in about 1862 and turned his practice over to his partner Thomas Gundry and his formal pupil, Henry Langley. After spending brief periods in Halifax and Bermuda, Hay returned to Scotland by 1864.

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