PALMER, Frank (1871-1934) was the successor to Brigadier Gideon Miller who had served as national architect of the Salvation Army in Canada. Palmer was an assistant to Miller, but by 1929 he had already begun to take responsibility for the design of hospitals, nurses’ homes, and citadel meeting halls for the Army. Born in England on 3 November 1871, Palmer was educated and trained there, and he emigrated to Canada in 1906 and joined the central office of the Salvation Army in Toronto in 1919. He died unexpectedly in Hamilton. Ont. on 6 November 1934 (obituary Gazette [Montreal], 9 Nov. 1934, 21).
WINDSOR, ONT., a large three storey Nurses’ Residence for Grace Hospital, University Avenue West at Crawford Avenue, 1929; demol. (C.R., xliii, 24 April 1929, 64, t.c.; Canadian Hotel Review [Toronto], vii, Oct. 1929, 39)