Coleman, Ervine Milne | Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada

COLEMAN, Ervine Milne (1900- c. 1980) was active in Toronto where he was in partnership with Harold E. Carter (see list of works under Carter & Coleman). Born in Prince Albert, Sask. in 1900, he joined the Dominion Realty Co., the real estate arm of the Canadian Bank of Commerce, in 1932, and worked as a staff architect for the bank. During his tenure there, he designed his own house at No. 10 Fallingbrook Drive, Scarborough, overlooking Lake Ontario, which he completed “in the old English style” (Toronto Star, 20 May 1938, 10). One of his last commissions with the bank was to assist David Shennan of Montreal with the design of the Canadian Bank of Commerce in Sorel, Que (R.A.I.C. Journal, xxvii, Oct. 1950, 348-49, illus.). In 1948 left the Bank to join in a new architectural partnership with Harold E. Carter, and their firm received several commissions from the Scarborough Board of Education during the next ten years. When Carter died in July 1956, Coleman was the successor to the practise and completed designs for the Scarborough Board of Education Head Office (1956-57), and the Scarborough Municipal Hall (1957-58), both situated on Eglinton Avenue East in Scarborough.