Lennox Grafton
Lennox Grafton (3 December 1919 – 24 March 2017) was a Canadian architect and one of the first women to be trained as architects in Canada. She completed her undergraduate education in University of Alberta between 1938 and 1941 and graduated from the architectural program in University of Toronto in 1950. Grafton's early works during the same decade focused on schools, churches, and commercial building.
Lennox Grafton
- Name
- Lennox Grafton
- Birth Name
- Daphne Lennox Grafton
- Born
- 3 December 1919
- Birthplace
- Brooks, Alberta, Canada
- Died
- 24 March 2017
- Place of death
- Lacombe, Alberta, Canada
- Known for
- Architecture
- Education
- University of Toronto
- Nationality
- Canada
- Occupation
- architect
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Lennox Grafton (3 December 1919 – 24 March 2017) was a Canadian architect and one of the first women to be trained as architects in Canada. She completed her undergraduate education in University of Alberta between 1938 and 1941 and graduated from the architectural program in University of Toronto in 1950. Grafton's early works during the same decade focused on schools, churches, and commercial building.
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Lennox Grafton (1919–2017) was a Canadian architect. Born in Brooks, the architect died in Lacombe. Lennox Grafton studied at University of Alberta and University of Toronto.
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These works were complete while she worked in several of Toronto architectural firms. In 1960, she started her own architectural practice in Arnprior, Ontario. Work in the office included McNab Township offices, church hall, school in March Township and residential work. She closed the office in 1963 due to the lack of available funding to scale the business to acquire larger projects, and started teaching secondary school home economics. Grafton joined Public Works Canada in 1967 and in the following decade was responsible for designing residential schools for the Canadian government most notably for Attawapiskat and Kashechewan in Northern Ontario. Grafton indicated that the work with the government was "particularly interesting and demanding, and it required a lot of flexibility, energy and imagination". She was pivotal in the overall design the Attawapiskat school and overcoming the technical challenges of constructing the building posed by the location's soil structure, weather and temperature.
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• Name — Lennox Grafton • Birth Name — Daphne Lennox Grafton • Born — 3 December 1919 • Birthplace — Brooks, Alberta, Canada • Died — 24 March 2017 • Place of death — Lacombe, Alberta, Canada • Known for — Architecture • Education — University of Toronto
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During the 1980s and 1990s, Grafton actively participated in "For the Record", a project organized by the Ontario Women Graduates and funded by the Ontario Heritage Foundation, which sought to document women architects graduating from the University of Toronto architectural program between the 1920s and 1960s. She was on the editorial board of For Record from 1990 – 2006.
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- 1.Remembering.ca. D Lennox Graton.
- 2.Canadian Women Artists History Initiative. Grafton, Lennox. Artist Database.
- 3.Grierson, Joan and the For the Record Committee. For the Record: The First Women in Canadian Architecture. Dundrun Press. 62-66. 2008. 978-1-55002-820-1.
- 4.Belton, Robert James. Sights of Resistance: Approaches to Canadian Visual Culture. University of Calgary Press. 1. 276. 2001.
- 5.University of Toronto. Faculty of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. Ontario Women Graduates. For the record : Ontario women graduates in architecture, 1920-1960. 1986.
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