Crowe, George Kenneth | Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada

CROWE, George Kenneth (1900-1940), was born in Guelph, Ont. on 11 July 1900 and educated at Guelph Collegiate Inst., at Upper Canada College, at Royal Military College in Kingston, and at the University of Toronto, graduating from the Dept. of Architecture in 1923. He spent much of the summer of 1922 as assistant to John M. Lyle, and helped him prepare the drawings for his entry in the Chicago Tribune Competition. In 1923 he moved to New York City to join York & Sawyer and remained there until 1926. He spent 1927 in Paris in the Atelier Georges Gromort and in 1928 moved to London to work for Septimus Warwick, formerly of Quebec City, who had returned to London to carry out the commission for the London office of the Sun Life Assurance Co. of Canada. Crowe returned to Canada in late 1929 and settled in Montreal to work as assistant and later as partner with Frederick G. Robb. When Robb died in 1936 Crowe continued the practice and showed considerable promise in developing his own career, but this was cut short with his untimely death in 1940. His last commission was for a major addition to Mount Royal High School, Carlyle Avenue, MONTREAL, QUE., 1938 (C.R., li, 11 May 1938, 33). Crowe died in Montreal on 2 June 1940 (obit. Gazette [Montreal], 3 June 1940, 14; obit. Ottawa Journal, 3 June 1940, 20; inf. Province of Quebec Assoc. of Architects)