De HUECK, Baron Boris (1889-1947), a native of St. Petersburg, Russia where he was a member of the Russian Academy of Architects, and later a member of the Royal Architectural Inst. of Canada. Born in Russia on 10 October 1889, he studied architecture and engineering at the Polytechic Institute in Riga, receiving a B.Sc in 1913. He served as a Major with the Imperial Engineering Corps from 1915 to 1919, and later worked as a technical advisor with the Russian Embassy in London, England. He moved to Canada in early 1921, and settled in Toronto. There, he associated himself with Howard B. Dunington-Grubb, the well-known landscape architect, and was later employed as an engineer with the Toronto Carpet Co., and with the Barrymore Cloth Co. In 1926 he joined the New York City engineering firm of Stuart, James & Cooke Inc. who appointed him as Montreal manager for that company in 1928. He worked briefly for the Canadian National Railways in Montreal, and by 1929 he had returned to Toronto and opened an office as an architect and engineer (C.R., xliii, 6 March 1929, 267).
His largest project in Canada was the preparation of designs for a substantial six storey public market building in Belmont Village, Kitchener, Ont,, to cost $750,000. Tenders were called for the project in September 1929, but the stock market crash of October 1929 brought the project to an abrupt end. No information on the architectural activity of de Hueck in Canada has been found after 1930. He later joined Canadian Cottons Ltd. as chief engineer in Montreal in 1934, and he was posted to Cornwall, Ont. to supervise their operations there. De Hueck died in Montreal on 10 June 1947 (obituary Engineering Journal of Canada [Montreal], xxx, July 1947, 353; biog. Who’s Who in Canada, 1928-29, 2060).
ST. LAURENT, QUE. [near Montreal], an aeroplane manufacturing plant for the Curtis Reid Aircraft Co., 1929 (C.R., xliii, 6 March 1929, 53)
KITCHENER, ONT., a public market building, Belmont Avenue West near Claremont Avenue, 1929 (C.R., xliii, 18 Sept. 1929, 51, t.c.)