While living in Bath and
London, he did a number of architectural projects, with Wilson (with whom he went into partnership in 1854), or on his own account. In 1845, he left for
Antigua, where he spent two years working on the new
St John's Cathedral, before emigrating to Canada in 1857. Settling in
Toronto, he formed a partnership with
Chilion Jones in which Fuller was responsible for design work. The company first won the contract to design Toronto's
Church of St. Stephen-in-the-Fields. In 1859, the
Legislative Assembly in
Ottawa voted the sum of £75,000 for the erection of a
"Parliament House" and offered a premium of $1000 for the best design within that budget. The winning bid was made by Fuller and Jones for a
Neo-Gothic design. The principal architects until its completion in 1866 were Thomas Fuller and
Charles Baillairge. In
Hand Book to the Parliamentary and Departmental Buildings, Canada (1867), Joseph Bureau wrote, "The corner stone was laid with great ceremony by His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales [the future king
Edward VII] in September 1860, on which occasion the rejoicings partook of the nature of the place, the lumber arches and men being a novelty to most of its visitors, bullocks and sheep were roasted whole upon the government ground and all comers were feasted." In 1867, he won the contract to build the
New York State Capitol building in
Albany, New York, and spent the next several years in the
United States. The project ran into severe cost overruns and an inquiry blamed Fuller. Fuller thus returned to Canada and, unable to work in the more lucrative private sector, in 1881 became
Chief Dominion Architect, succeeding
Thomas Seaton Scott. Canada's
Department of Public Works erected a number of post offices in smaller urban centres during Thomas Fuller's term as chief architect. == Works ==