Ronald Thom

• Name — Ronald Thom • Born — May 15, 1923 • Birthplace — Penticton, British Columbia, Canada • Died — October 29, 1986 • Place of death — Toronto, Ontario • Education — Vancouver School of Art, Canada • Practice — Thom Partnership • Significant Buildings — Massey College and Trent University's riverside campus. • Awards — OC

He was born in Penticton, British Columbia, the son of James Thom and Elena Myrtle Fennel. Thom served as an aviator with the RCAF during World War II, returned and graduated from the Vancouver School of Art in 1947. He never went to architecture school but apprenticed at Thompson, Berwick & Pratt, where he quickly became recognized as an unusually gifted draughtsman and designer. and also designed notable houses in the Vancouver area, several of which won Massey Awards, the country's top award for architecture. In 1957, he became a registered architect at Thompson, Berwick and Pratt and a partner shortly afterward.

• Building — Year Completed — Architect — Style — Location — Image • Master plan and buildings of Massey College — 1963 — Ronald Thom — Modern architecture / Medieval Oxbridge College — University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario — • Fraser Residence (Fraser House) — 1968 (restoration completed by Altius Architecture in 2001) — Ronald Thom and Paul Merrick (Co-designer) — Modern architecture — 4 Old George Place (Rosedale Ravine) Toronto, Ontario • Catherine Parr Traill College Master plan and renovations of buildings; Champlain College, Lady Eaton College, the Bata Library and science complex on the Symons Campus — 1965–1973 — Ronald Thom — Modern architecture — Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario — • Illustration — Ron Thom, Trent University (CC: Dieter Janssen) • Illustration — Interior steps of the Bata Library (CC: Dieter Janssen • St. Jude's Cathedral (Iqaluit) — 1970 — Ronald Thom — Modern architecture — Iqaluit (destroyed 2005) — • Fleming College — 1973 — Ronald Thom — Modern architecture — Peterborough, Ontario — • Pearson College of the Pacific — 1977 — Ronald Thom & Barry Vance Downs — Modern architecture — Victoria, British Columbia • College Education Centre — 1982 — Ronald Thom — Modern architecture — Nipissing University, Nipissing, Ontario • Toronto Zoo – master plan and pavilions (including African and Indo-Malaysian Pavilions) — 1974 — Ronald Thom with Craig & Boake and Clifford & Laurie — Modern architecture — Metropolitan Toronto Zoo, Toronto, Ontario • Atria North office complex (Phase I), North York — 1978–80 — Ronald Thom — Modern architecture — 2255 Sheppard Avenue East, Toronto, Ontario — • New Shaw Festival Theatre — 1973 — Ronald Thom — Modern architecture — 10 Queen's Parade, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario • Oakville Centre for the Performing Arts — 1977 — Ronald Thom — Modern architecture — 130 Navy Street, Oakville, Ontario — • The Westin Prince Hotel, Toronto — 1975 — Ronald Thom — Modern architecture — 900 York Mills Road, Toronto, Ontario • Toronto Metropolitan University Architecture Building — 1979–1981 — Ronald Thom — Modern architecture — Toronto Metropolitan University 325 Church Street Toronto, Ontario

Thom was married twice, first to Christine Helen Millard (1923) in 1943 and survived by second wife Molly (m. 1963), daughter Emma (a veterinarian) and son Adam Thom (himself an architect).

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