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Henry Whittaker fonds
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1929-1931 (Creation)
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- Whittaker, Henry, b. 1886
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1 cm of textual records, 659 photographs
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Henry Whittaker was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on May 15, 1886 to English parents. He relocated to England in 1900 and articled with J. Perry, Architect, in Dudley, England. After two and a half years he became an assistant with Haywood & Harrison, Architects, in Accrington. After a year spent in London, he relocated to the Sudan where he worked as an architect and engineer for the Public Works Department of the Sudanese Government. Whittaker returned to England, again, before arriving in Victoria in 1913 when he quickly joined the B.C. Government as a draftsman with the Department of Public Works. In 1916, he was appointed Acting Supervising Architect and in 1919 he became Supervising Architect.
Whittaker was promoted to the position of Chief Architect, a position he held until his retirement in 1949.
Whittaker worked on numerous projects across the province throughout his career including, but not limited to, designs for a four-room school for Ocean Falls in 1918; designs for the Acute Psychopathic Wing (1922-1924), the Female Chronic Wing (1928-1930) and the Veteran's Unit (1929-1934) of the provincial asylum, Essondale, in Coquitlam; B.C. Power Commission Building in Victoria (1939-1940), Mount St. Mary's Hospital (1940) and the Douglas Building (1949-1951) in Victoria.
Following his retirement in 1949 he established a private practice with Donald Wagg from 1949-1957, specializing in the design of hospitals.
Whittaker died in Victoria on August 18, 1971 at the age of eighty-five.
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The fonds consists of incoming letters and clippings regarding the construction of Essondale Mental Home.
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Archives code(s): MS-0651; 198608-008
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Accession number(s): 73-054; 74A-432
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- Whittaker, Henry, b. 1886 (Subject)
- Provincial Mental Hospital, Essondale (Subject)