Stock, Daniel Henry

STOCK, Daniel Henry (1915-1996), active in Regina, Sask. where he was an employee in the office of F.H. Portnall as early as 1935, and later worked in partnership with him from 1946 to 1950 (see list of works under Portnall & Stock). Born in 1915, he registered with the Saskatchewan Assoc. of Architects in 1940 and later served as President of the Association in 1949-50, and again in 1955. His skills as an architectural model maker and photographer were recognized by Portnall at an early stage, when he was asked to make the first study model for the important Public Building in Regina in 1935. A view of this conceptual model, crafted by Stock who also photographed it, appeared in the Leader-Post (Regina) on 25 May 1935, 1, illus. Stock was later invited by F.H. Portnall to form a partnership in Regina in early 1946 (RA.I.C. Journal, xxiii, March 1946, 72) and their firm can be credited with designing some of the first distinctive examples of the modernist style of architecture in Saskatchewan (see list of works under Portnall & Stock). They were joined by Robert B. Ramsay in 1950, but Stock & Ramsay left the firm in 1951 to form their own office in Regina later that year. This partnership was dissolved in 1958 and Stock continued to practise until after 1970. He died in Regina on 16 February 1996 (obit. & port. Regina Leader-Post, 21 Feb. 1996, 8; inf. Sask. Assoc. of Architects)