Watson Elkinah Reid

Reid was born in Harvey, Albert County, New Brunswick to William J. Reid and Lucinda Robinson.

About 1888, he joined his brothers James W. and Merritt in California, where he ran their San Diego office of Reid & Reid, overseeing construction of the massive Hotel del Coronado to his brother's designs.

He returned to Canada in 1892 and had a few commissions there under the auspices of Senator Abner Reid McClelan such as Senator McClelan's home built in 1893 called Victoria Manor, the Riverside-Albert Consolidated School and the Albert County Court House.

In 1890, he married Janie R. Turner of Harvey.

[2] In his later years he moved to Vancouver where he died in 1944.

Albert County Court House (completed in 1904) was one of Reid's later designs