Darling, Frank, 1850-1923, Toronto III
- "Canada's leading architect"
- Graduate of Trinity College, Toronto
- trained in England 1870-73
- in practice from 1874
- 1st Honorary President, Toronto Beaux-Arts
Club
- successive styles: Gothic Revival,
American Romanesque, Edwardian Baroque Revival, Beaux-Arts (from
1905)
- Partner of Curry, Sproatt and Pearson
- designed over 1000 banks across Canada
- first tall steel-frame building in
Canada, Winnipeg,1904, with George A. Fuller Co.
- Bank of Commerce in Winnipeg "one
of Canada's finest examples of Beaux-Arts classicism"
- Sun Life, Montreal, largest building
in British Commonwealth, (Beaux-Arts)
- 2nd place in government building compettition
of 1907
- member of Holt
Commission for planning of Ottawa,
1913-1915
- Royal Institute of British Architects
Gold Medal, 1915 (first Canadian)
- Bank of
Commerce Ottawa