Chilion Jones was the business partner of architect Thomas Fuller in nineteenth-century Canada.
10 Facts About Chilion Jones
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Chilion Jones, the sixth son of Mr Justice Jonas Jones, of Toronto, Ontario, was born in Brockville, Upper Canada.
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Chilion Jones formed a partnership with Thomas Fuller in the 1850s, together winning the contracts to design the Church of St Stephen-in-the-Fields in Toronto and the neo-gothic Parliament Buildings in Ottawa.
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In 1863, Jones returned to Brockville, where he became a tavern keeper.
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Chilion Jones was later involved in the construction of the Carillon Canal and worked on projects in the Toronto harbour area.
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Chilion Jones suffered from gout for the last twenty years of his life.
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Chilion Jones died in Bermuda in 1912 while recuperating there.
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Chilion Jones married Eliza Maria Harvey, daughter of Robert Harvey, of Maitland, Ont.
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Chilion Jones was born in Maitland, Ontario, and educated in Scotland.
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Chilion Jones was a horse-breeder of a stable of racers and carriage horses which were sold in the US and Canada.