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FOR THE RECORD
FOR THE RECORD
THE FIRST WOMEN IN CANADIAN ARCHITECTURE
Edited by Joan Grierson
and the For the Record Committee
Copyright © Joan Grierson 2008
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J. Kirk Howard, President
Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
For the record : the first women in Canadian architecture/edited by Joan Grierson and the For the record committee.
Includes index.
ISBN 978-1-55002-820-1
1. Women architects—Canada—History. 2. Women architects—Canada—Biography. 3. University of Toronto. School of Architecture—Graduate students—Biography. I. Grierson, Joan II. Title.
NA1997.F67 2008 720.92 C2008–900380–2
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We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council for our publishing program. We also acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program and The Association for the Export of Canadian Books, and the Government of Ontario through the Ontario Book Publishers Tax Credit program and the Ontario Media Development Corporation.
Editor: Meg Taylor
Design: Counterpunch/Peter Ross
Printer: Friesens
Opening photographs:
page 1 (left) Residence of Lawren Harris, Toronto, 1933, Alexandra Biriukova, Architect; (right) Royal View Apartments, Edmonton, 1954, Wallbridge and Imrie, Architects.
page 2 (left) Harvie House, Calgary, 1953, Wallbridge and Imrie, Architects; (right) District Office for the Ministry of Natural Resources, Midhurst, Ontario, 1974, Natalie Liacas, Architect.
page 3 (left) Silvano Color Lab, Toronto, 1979, Joanna Ozdowski, Architect; (right) Daymond House, Guelph, 1991, Joan Burt, Architect. pages 18–19 Plan for an infirmary at the Sir James Whitney School for the Deaf, Belleville, Ontario, 1972, Natalie Liacas, Architect.
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To women in Canadian architecture,
past, present and future
CONTENTS
Foreword by Eva Matsuzaki
A SHORT HISTORY OF EARLY WOMEN IN ARCHITECTURE
WOMEN GRADUATES IN ARCHITECTURE 1920 TO 1960, UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
1940s
1950s
Epilogue
WOMEN IN ARCHITECTURE TODAY
Appendices
A The Story Behind the Exhibit by Blanche Lemco van Ginkel
B The Original Exhibit by Mary Clark and Lennox Grafton
C Survey of Canadian Registered Women Architects 1997–1998
D Canadian Schools of Architecture
Selected Resources
Acknowledgements
Photo Credits
Index
The older I get the more I appreciate those who went before me. The more I learn of their lives and their work, the more I am amazed by their accomplishments
