Valentine, Hugh Allan Inglis | Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada

VALENTINE, Hugh Allan Inglis (1904-1978) was born in Dundee, Scotland on 1 May 1904 and obtained his education in Montreal at Rosemount School and at the Montreal High School between 1910 and 1919. He worked in the office of Ross & MacDonald as a junior draftsman from 1920 onward and at the same time attended courses in architecture at McGill University where he obtained his degree in 1927. He joined the Montreal office of David R. Brown in 1928 and remained with him until 1931. Valentine then opened his own office in 1934 and the following year received Second Premium of $500 for his competition submission for the McGill University Gymnasium complex (R.A.I.C. Journal, xii, May 1935, 83-84, illus.). After the death of George Hyde in 1944 he was invited by Percy Nobbs to become his partner in the firm of Nobbs & Valentine. He was elected president of the Province of Quebec Association of Architects in 1957, and died in Port Hope, Ont. on 16 February 1978 (death notice in the Gazette [Montreal], 18 Feb. 1978, 26). His portrait is held at the P.Q.A.A. Office, Montreal, and the Canadian Architecture Collection at McGill University contains several of his student drawings and sketchbooks (inf. Province of Quebec Assoc. of Architects; Prof. John Bland, Montreal)