Architects · Engineers · Builders

Biographical Dictionary
of Architects in Canada

The lives and works of the architects, engineers, and builders who shaped a century and a half of Canadian building — from Loyalist Georgian to the eve of the Modern. 2,839 lives in all, with the buildings and the sources set down beside them.

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Compiled by: Robert G. Hill
Entries: 2,839
Period: 1800–1950
Subjects: Architects & builders
Plates: 7
Coverage: Canada, coast to coast

The record

For a century and a half — from the Georgian houses of the Loyalists to the eve of the Modern — Canada was drawn and raised by these hands.

This is the dictionary of who they were: the architects, engineers, and builders behind the churches, banks, legislatures, stations, and houses of a growing country. Each entry follows a life through its training, its partnerships, and its works — with the sources set down beside it. This edition is republished from archived copies; the story of its recovery is told separately.

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Twenty-six letters,
2,839 lives.

The plates

The architects themselves

Portraits from the dictionary's plates — the faces behind the drawings.

Front matter

Biographical Dictionaryof Architects in Canada

Biographical Dictionary
of Architects in Canada