Middleton, Walter Thomas | Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada

MIDDLETON, Walter Thomas (1883-1975), born in Ramsgate, England on 14 November 1883 and arrived in Canada before 1899. He trained as a carpenter's assistant in Saskatchewan and was among the first students to graduate from the newly formed Department of Architecture in the Faculty of Applied Science at the Univ. of Alberta in Edmonton in 1917 (inf. Univ. of Alberta Archives). He later worked as a journeyman and foreman in Victoria, Vancouver, Edmonton and Kelowna before moving to Chilliwack, B.C. He was active there from c. 1925 and joined the Architectural Inst. of British Columbia in 1928, but he appears to have resigned from that organization in 1932. No references to his designs have been found. He died on 12 January 1975 in Chilliwack (obituary Chilliwack Progress, 15 Jan. 1975, 10A; inf. Architectural Inst. of British Columbia)