====== Meredith, Colborne Powell ====== 
 (13 or 15 Sept. 1874-29 Jan. 1967), architect. (Coly Meredith, Col. C. P. Meredith) Born at St. Andrews, N.B., where his family was on vacation Parents: E. A. Meredith of Ottawa, who was federal deputy minister of the interior, and his wife Anne Frances Jarvis. The physician who delivered C. P. Meredith was Sir Charles Tupper, the Father of Confederation. Meredith, who grew up in Toronto, where he lived from the age of 5, studied at the School of Practical Science, Toronto, and in 1898 returned to Ottawa, where he had over many years a successful practice as an architect. He retired before WWII, but came out of retirement to do war work. He was married in 1901 to Alden Griffin. By 1913 Meredith was a colonel, presumably in the militia. He died, aged 92, at his home in Ottawa, in the centenary year of Confederation, about 10 years after his wife.

<tab>Meredith was the architect or–probably the more correct term–designer of the Glengarry war memorial, Alexandria. His wife, Alden Griffin Meredith, published articles on GC and on Williamstown in //The Canadian Magazine//, Jan. 1922 and Jan. 1928. Col. Meredith seems to have had no GC connections other than those stated here. His name has not been well remembered in GC–perhaps because an older generation of Glengarrians found it hard to accept that even a building needed an architect. The contractors for the war memorial, which was unveiled in 1923, were a Toronto firm called McIntosh Brothers. For the memorial, see also [[macdonell_john4|J. A. Macdonell (Greenfield)]].


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<fs small>//Globe and Mail// 2 Feb. 1967 (much biog. detail, portrait) * Morgan (1912) 796 * //Who’s Who and Why// [Canada] 1921 p. 24 (portrait) * Ostrom 303 * //MDict// 318, 389, 572 : his father, father-in-law, Jarvis connections * //Bibliography of Glengarry// 36, 41 * //Glengarry News// 22 Feb. 2006 (a rare printed mention of Meredith as architect of the war memorial)
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