Dunlop, Alexander Francis; (A008)

A008

		Dunlop, Alexander Francis(1842-1923)
		Photo: Portrait which appeared in Canadian Architect and Builder 20:9 (Sept. 1907) 171.
Birthplace:		Montreal, PQ
Active Dates:		1870-1915
Education:		Studied in Montreal and New York; apprenticed with George and John James Brown.
Other Known Works:		St. James Methodist Church Queen's Hotel (rue Peel) Montreal Star Building (St.James Street) Commercial and Technical School (rue Sherbrooke) Berthelet Street Fire Station Rapport Houses (3611-15 Lorne Crescent, 1910) Cottage at Valois, Que. J. Auld Residence (MacGregor St.) Also see Dunlop and Heriot.
Notes:		Between 1871 and 1874, Dunlop worked in Boston before returning to Montreal to set up his own practice. In Montreal, Dunlop designed a number of houses, hotels, schools, and factories and employed a number of students, including Edward Maxwell (1867-1923) and Robert Findlay (1859-1951). Dunlop was one of the original members of the Royal Canadian Academy in 1880, a member of the organising committee of the Province of Quebec Association of Architects, as well as a founding member and first president of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada.

Sources:

Jackson, Kathryn. Canadian Architecture Collection: A Guide to the Archives.Montréal: McGill University, 1993: 103.

Morgan, Henry James. Canadian Men & Women of the Times.Toronto: William Briggs, 1912: 354.
Location: Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections. McGill University Library.