He later emigrated to Montreal where he made his name by winning the design competition for an important Canadian national exhibition but, after this was cancelled, he returned to Inverness, c. 1902, setting up a practice at 28 High Street.

In 1903-4, he won the competitions for seven District Libraries in Glasgow, opening a temporary office at 67 Hope Street to oversee their construction. These were:

Bridgeton District Library, 23 Landressy Street (1903-6); Dennistoun, 2a Craigpark (1903-6); Govanhill, 170 Langside Road (1902-6); Maryhill, 1508 Maryhill Road (1903-5); Parkhead, 64 Tollcross Road (1904-6); Woodside, 343 St George's Road (1902-5) and Hutchesontown, McNeil Street (1904-6, now Gorbals Economic Regeneration Centre).

Although fairly small buildings, they are all distinguished by their Edwardian Baroque details such as columned façades, corner domes and figurative stone and bronze sculpture by William Kellock Brown .

In 1905, however, Rhind was denied the crowning achievement in his association with Glasgow's libraries when his designs for the Mitchell Library Competition were placed third.

Outwith Glasgow his buildings include The Grange, now the Royal Golf Hotel, Dornoch (1897); a Public Library in London; and the Crown Church (1900-1) and an extension to the Town House, both in Inverness (1904).

Sources:

• Inverness Courier [Obit], 11 January, 1918;
• BI [Obit], 15 February, 1918;
• GAPC [Obit], 5 February, 1918;
• GCA : AGN 475;
• Gifford ;
• Information from Iain Paterson;
• McKenzie (1999) ;
• McKenzie (2002) ;
• Williamson et al.

Useful links to other sites:

• Baroque in Glasgow - J R Rhind. Part of Gerry Blaikies beautifully illustrated site on the Carnegie Libraries in Scotland.