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William Bruce Dendy, Canadian architectural historian, was born in Edmonton, Alberta in 1948 and died May 29, 1993 in Toronto, Ontario. Dendy graduated from the University of Toronto in 1971, received a B.A. in Architectural History from Cambridge University in 1973, and in 1979 received two Masters degrees in architectural history, one from the University of Cambridge, and one from Columbia University in New York. He worked as an architectural historian for the Toronto Historical Board from 1973 until 1976, taught Canadian architectural history at the University of Toronto, at the University of Waterloo, at Carleton University in Ottawa, at Ryerson Polytechnic Institute in Toronto, and at the Toronto Urban Studies Centre. Dendy also worked on a consultancy basis as architectural historian to many Toronto-based architectural firms, developers, and government agencies, and also led architectural walking tours of Toronto.
Dendy's two published works, Lost Toronto (1978) and Toronto Observed: Its Architecture, Patrons, and History (1986), were both published by the Oxford University Press and both won Toronto Book Awards. In 1993 Dendy was awarded an honorary membership in the Ontario Association of Architects, and in the same year he was given an Allied Arts Award for his lectures and books on historical architecture.
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Primarily includes materials relating to the work Dendy carried out as architectural historian to the Property Restoration Branch of the Ontario Heritage Foundation between 1987-1988. These include reports re Ontario Inventory of Heritage Properties issued by the Ontario Heritage Foundation in 1988. Additionally, this includes a year end report (1988-1989) by the Ontario Heritage Foundation re the Historic Properties Programme of the Foundation's Trust Committee. Other materials include various government publications either published by the Ministry of Citizenship and Culture or by the Ontario Heritage Foundation itself.
Other items in this file include copies of feasibility studies by R.J. Thom Architects in Toronto re the Town of Simcoe (1974), as well as ephemera in the form of folded flyers, pamphlets etc. relating to Windsor and the Niagara Escarpment. Finally, this file includes a book which focuses on the history of the Credit Valley Railway.
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Princeton file.