Ratcliffe, Walter Hepburn | Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada

RATCLIFFE, Walter Hepburn (1888-1944) was born in Toronto on 24 February 1888 and attended classes at the Toronto Technical School in 1905-06. He trained under J.A. Mackenzie (in 1906-11), and worked as a draftsman for Burke, Horwood & White (in 1911-17), and for Bernard H. Prack (in 1917-18). While in Toronto his name was associated with one project, that for the Lodge Rooms for the Parkdale Assembly Hall, Lansdowne Avenue at Queen Street West, TORONTO, ONT., 1912 (C.R., xxvi, 17 Jan. 1912, 73, t.c.; 28 Feb. 1912, 65). He moved to Kingston in 1918 to work for a contracting firm McKelvey & Birch, then joined Colin Drever in 1929, remaining in this office until his death in Kingston on 23 May 1944 (obituary Kingston Whig-Standard, 25 May 1944, 3; obit. Daily Commercial News [Toronto], 1 June 1944; inf. Ontario Assoc. of Architects)