Collection C0006 - James A. N. Mackie Lancaster Building collection

James (Jim) A. N. Mackie (1927-2011) was born 21 October 1927 in Calgary, Alberta. He was a descendent of James Stuart Mackie, Calgary’s twelfth mayor and a prominent early Calgary businessman who built the Lancaster Building between 1912 and 1919. James A. N. Mackie graduated from the University of Alberta in Commerce and Law. He started practicing law in Calgary at the firm Mahaffey Howard, which was later renamed Howard Mackie, and eventually formed a branch of the firm Borden Ladner Gervais. He practiced law for over forty years. He also served on the board of governors of the University of Calgary and as president of the Historical Society of Alberta. Mackie was passionate about heritage preservation in Calgary and worked to ensure the preservation of the family-owned Lancaster Building. He was married to Dora Helen Mackie (nee Stock). They had four children Becky, Anne, Jamie, and David. James A. N. Mackie died on 27 December 2011.

William Stanley Bates, 1872-1949, was born in Yorkshire, England. In 1897 he became an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects. He moved to Calgary in 1904 and joined the architectural firm of Wilson, Hodgson and Bates. He subsequently worked for Hodgson and Bates; Hodgson, Bates and Butler; and Hodgson, Bates and Beattie before establishing his own fim in 1916. He designed many prominent Calgary buildings including the Burns block, Grain Exchange, Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) Natural Resources building, Sacred Heart church, and parts of the Holy Cross hospital. He also designed houses, schools, churches, hotels, hospitals, banks and commercial buildings which were erected in Calgary and southern Alberta towns. He was a charter member of the Alberta Society of Architects. He and his wife had four children, Cynthia (Aikenhead), Maxwell, Newton and William. For further information see Patricia Jasen's article, "One Who Stayed : The Career of Calgary Architect William Stanley Bates" in Bulletin : Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada. - vol. 13, no. 1 (March 1988), p. 15-19. See also the Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada, 1800-1950.