Archives for June, 2016
FOUNDATIONS of DEMOCRACY
Article by Michael Prokopow
Vice-Regal Mansions in Canada
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HORTLY AFTER JUSTIN TRUDEAU was elected Prime Ministerdesignate in October, 2015, a story surfaced in the press about whether or not...
SHARDS of IDENTITY
Article by Lorraine Flanigan
Piecing Together Domestic Fragments
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HE YEAR WAS 1697, and Pierre le Moyne d’Iberville led his French soldiers to Carbonear, one of the oldest settlements in...
Chalk LINES
Article by Lorraine Johnson
The Social and Architectural Restoration of Galt’s Old Post Office
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LASSROOM NOTES written on a school chalkboard are intended, by nature and by material, for...
Shelf LIFE
Article by Jules Torti
The Social and Architectural Restoration of Galt’s Old Post Office
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OFFEE HOUSES AND LIBRARIES have long been gathering grounds for community movers and shakers. Acting...
GEORGE STEPHEN
Article by Alexander Reford
A Client and His Commissions
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HEN WE THINK ABOUT ARCHITECTURE, we most often think about the building and the architect who designed it. Less often...
Maritime MEDIEVAL
Article by John Leroux
Building Fragments on the Bluffs
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ETWEEN 1841 AND 1859, Herbert Minton of Stoke-Upon-Trent, England, presented vast amounts of beautiful inlaid ceramic floor and wall tiles...
A FOLLY in TIME
Article by Tatum Taylor
Building Fragments on the Bluffs
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T THE EDGE OF THE SCARBOROUGH BLUFFS, where Toronto meets Lake Ontario, remnants of the city’s past rest in peace....