COPEMAN, Colin Hamilton (1907-1995), active in Montreal, Que. From 1933 until after 1970. Born in Quebec City on 31 July 1907, he studied architecture at McGill University in Montreal from 1926 and graduated in 1930. His early training during the summer period between terms was with the Toronto firm of Wickson & Gregg (in 1927), with the Montreal office of Lyman & Chipman (1929), and David J. Spence (1930). In the depths of the Depression in 1933, he decided to open his own office (R.A.I.C. Journal, x, Nov. 1933, 194), and he was later in partnership with David Shennan in 1939-40 (see list of works under D. Shennan). He was appointed Director of Construction for the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1941, and continued his career as an architect after WWII. Copeman was elected as a Fellow of the R.A.I.C. in 1961, and later died in Montreal on 26 July 1995 (death notice Gazette [Montreal], 31 July 1995, D8; biog. National Reference Book, ix, 1951)
(works in Montreal unless noted)
OUTREMONT, conversion of four retail stores and flats into apartments, for J. Gilletz, 1934 (Outremont b.p. 2915, 7 April 1934)
VILLE LA SALLE, QUE., major addition to warehouse for Dominion Tar & Chemical Co., 1946-47 (Financial Post [Toronto], 2 Nov. 1946, 9; and 1 Feb. 1947, 10)
(with Frank Corley) ROBERT SIMPSON CO., St. James Street at Greene Street, a large mail-order warehouse, 1947 (C.R., lx, Jan. 1947, 84)
CORNWALL, ONT., City Hall, 1948 (Gazette [Montreal], 25 Sept. 1948, 16; C.R., lxi, Oct. 1948, 184)
ROBERT SIMPSON CO. DEPARTMENT STORE, Ste. Catherine Street West at Mansfield Street, addition of one floor to the existing store, 1949; with two additional floors added in 1953 (Gazette [Montreal], 10 June 1953, 15, descrip.; City of Montreal, Les Magasins Les Cinemas, 1985, 228-31, illus.)
CORNWALL, ONT., retail store and office for A. McLellan, 1949 (C.R., lxii, June 1949, 119)