I grew up in the picturesque historical town of Port Hope, Ontario with its predominance of nineteenth century buildings, residential and commercial. My youthful exposure to an array of well-preserved, beautiful Victorian buildings probably ignited my early interest to be an architect. In 1965, my class of 60 travelled to south western Ontario to document historic houses and produce measured drawings – a program instigated by Toronto architect and professor Eric Arthur, who had won an RIBA Measured Drawings competition in 1920. A love of architectural documentation, which was Eric Arthur’s talent, was also the predominant feature of the Sir Bannister Fletcher book. Arthur’s project for our historical documentation program was to prepare ink line drawings - plans, sections, elevations and details which, when these ink line drawings were completed, were accessed by Library and Archives Canada as additions to their important collection of historical Canadian architectural documents. Also, at the beginning of each university year, we would travel for two weeks to sketch camp in Haliburton, north of Toronto, to observe and sketch the small towns of central Ontario. Travel and drawing went hand in hand.
David Murray
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