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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Carving the City
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Article by Wayne Reeves
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HILE THREE-DIMENSIONAL depictions of buildings and towns date back to antiquity, terrain models (or raised-relief maps) became popular only from the 1890s...
Georgia Baths: A Steamy History
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Article by David R. Johnston
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TEAM BATHS WERE ONCE A COMMON PART OF LIFE in Edmonton, popular with European immigrant groups and working men. Edmonton Turkish...
Crushing Beauty
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Article by Elizabeth Semmelhack
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HIS CLOG PRICKS the imagination. Was it an implement of medieval torture or was it perhaps a weapon? Its form does, in fact,...
Holding Meaning
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Article by Michael Prokopow
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HILE THERE ARE times when the production of objects results in unprecedented achievements in form and materiality, more often than not most...