GLADMAN, Victor Lionel (1887-1958), active in Toronto from 1912 to c. 1927, at first in partnership with his brother Cyril R.A. Gladman from 1912 to 1914, and then under his own name. Born in Lindsay, Ont. on 23 April 1887 he graduated from Dept. of Architecture & Engineering at McGill University in Montreal and worked briefly for Ross & MacFarlane before moving to New York to join the engineering staff at Carrere & Hastings, a leading architectural firm there, in 1910-11. After returning to Canada in June 1912 he created a new company with his brother in Toronto called Gladman & Gladman, Architects (Const., v, June 1912, 80), but their collaboration was shortlived and the firm dissolved in 1914. His skills as an architectural engineer proved useful when he was hired by William F. Sparling to supervise construction of the Trusts & Guarantee Building on Bay Street (1917). In 1918 he was hired by George A. Reid to oversee work on the new Ontario College of Art Building (designed by Horwood & White). He then joined Sproatt & Rolph in 1921 as their staff engineer, and in 1923 he created the Gladman Construction Co. of Port Hope, Ont., of which he served as president and general manager. Apparently unsuccessful in this business venture, he returned to Toronto to join the Ontario Dept. of Public Works as an architectural engineer in 1925, and later became an authority in hospital planning for the Ontario government. Gladman died in Toronto on 15 June 1958 (obit. Telegram [Toronto], 17 June 1958, 34; biog. and port. Canadian Engineer [Montreal], xlvi, 11 March 1924, 334; inf. Ontario Association of Architects)
GLADMAN & GLADMAN (works in Toronto)
BLOOR STREET WEST, near Robert Street, residence for Dr. Fred A. Clarkson, 1912 (Toronto b.p. 36801, 22 Aug. 1912)
V. L. GLADMAN (works in Toronto)
CAREY ROAD, near Manor Road, a group of six detached houses for Shoop Construction Co., 1913 (Toronto b.p. 2600, 26 March 1913)
GOODERHAM & WORTS DISTILLERY, Mill Street at Trinity Street, addition to warehouses, 1927 (Toronto b.p. 95536, 7 Jan. 1927; Daily Commercial News [Toronto], 25 May 1927, 2; P. McHugh, Toronto Architecture: A City Guide, 1985, 38)