Dossier f19 - Department of Public Works

Robert Gage was born in Coleraine, Ireland in or around 1841. He emigrated to Canada in 1852. It is not known where he originally settled but his name appears in the Kingston directory in 1871. Robert Gage produced at least 72 architectural projects from 1870 to 1888 while living in Kingston, Ontario. His best known commission was the Royal Military College in Kingston. He was an architect of all manner of buildings including private dwellings, public buildings, churches and the Hospital for the Insane in Kingston. He left Kingston ca. 1889 and then became a successful architect-engineer who worked in the California desert constructing irrigation canals.