STRINGER, Archibald Joseph (1883-1967), active in Toronto, Ont. from 1906 onward. Born in Brighton, England on 1 December 1883, he studied at the Brighton School of Art and trained there under a local architect Edwin J. Hamilton from c. 1902 to 1906 when he emigrated to Canada. After arriving in Toronto he worked as a draftsman for Wickson & Gregg, and for Alfred Chapman, from 1906 to 1914, then opened an office under his own name before taking a position as a Lecturer in architectural drafting at Central Technical School in Toronto. He became a registered member of the Ontario Association of Architects in 1931, and died in Toronto on 5 September 1967 (inf. Ontario Assoc. of Architects; F. Chatterton, Who’s Who in Architecture, 1923, 237).
(works in Toronto)
BALMY BEACH CLUB HOUSE, at the foot of Beech Avenue, major additions to the Club building, 1912 (Kevin McConnell, History of The Balmy Beach Club, 2012, 40-43, illus.; dwgs. at City of Toronto Archives, Fonds 200, Series 410, File 1513)
BALSAM ROAD, at Balsam Avenue, residence for Hyman Mehr, 1917 (Toronto b.p. 11633, 24 April 1917)
ST. AIDAN’S ANGLICAN CHURCH, Queen Street East at Silverbirch Avenue, addition for a Memorial Hall, 1922 (C.R., xxxvi, 17 May 1922, 139, t.c.; 12 July 1922, 53; The Church of St. Aidan: The First Fifty Years, 1957, 16; dwgs. at City of Toronto Archives, Fonds 200, Series 410, File 2295)
ROSEDALE ROAD, near Cluny Drive, residence for Arthur P. Holden, 1922 (C.R., xxxvi, 9 Aug. 1922, 54)
HOBBS STORAGE BATTERY OF CANADA LTD., Spadina Avenue at Fleet Street, factory, 1927 (Toronto Daily Star, 22 Feb. 1927, 23, illus. & descrip.; C.R., xli, 2 March 1927, 54)
SALVATION ARMY BUILDING, 1930 (dwgs. Metro Toronto Reference Library, Baldwin Room)