Smith, James Edward Asheton | Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada

SMITH, James Edward Assheton (1911-1994) was born in Toronto on 30 June 1911 and was educated at the School of Architecture at the University of Toronto. During the summer terms he worked in the office of Sproatt & Rolph from 1932 to 1935. After graduating in 1936 he articled with George & Moorhouse and in 1939 collaborated with his classmate Henry D.L. Morgan on the design of the Dorchester Apartments, Farnham Avenue at Avenue Road, TORONTO, ONT. 1939-40 (R.A.I.C. Journal, xvii, June 1941, 103, illus.). This complex was among the first residential blocks in Toronto designed in a modernist style. Smith retired from practice in December 1977 and died in Toronto on 7 July 1994 (inf. Ontario Assoc. of Architects)