Architectural Index for Ontario


Information on Architect: Heakes, F.R.


Biography
Notes Provincial Architect for Ontario / Public Works Department


Address: 0 Queen's Park Crescent E.
Type of Building: Legislative Buildings
Name of Building: Provincial Parliament Buildings - East Block
Notes: This large gothic-styled complex, often reffered to as the "Whitney Block", consists of four blocks that have different street addresses: The Whitney Block at 99 Wellesley Street East; The Ferguson Block at 77 Wellesley Street East; The Hearst and Mowatt Blocks at 90 Bay Street and the Hepbourne Block at 80 Grosvenor Street. They are connected to the Parliament Buildings by a 100 yard underground tunnel.

Dates
Cornerstone laid 1925

Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Building for Beauty 194? n/a 54
Canadian Homes and Gardens 1927 July 3 4
Canadian Homes and Gardens 1928 Aug. 6 5
Canadian Magazine of Politics… 1927 July 24 68
Century to Celebrate, 1893-1993 1993 n/a all
Construction 1925 April 124 18
Construction 1923 Sept. 316 16
Construction 1928 May 150++ 21
Contract Magazine 1926 April 52 40 7th
Contract Record. -- 1931 July 820 45 8th
Contract Record. -- 1932 May 46 46 18th
Contract Record. -- 1932 Jan. 44 43 6th
Contract Record. -- 1930 Dec. 53 44 10th
Contract Record. -- 1925 Dec 161 39 30th
Contract Record. -- 1919 Feb. 192 33 26th
Contract Record. -- 1925 Dec. 45 39 30th
Contract Record. -- 1926 May 190-1 40 26th
Contract Record. -- 1928 Jan 75-58 42 25th
Contract Record. -- 1919 April 351 33 9th
Contract Record. -- 1925 Aug 803 39 12th
Contract Record. -- 1932 May 166 37 30th
Contract Record. -- 1920 Dec. 47 3? 29th
Contract Record. -- 1925 May 509 39 27th
Contract Record. -- 1925 April 358 39 8th
Contract Record. -- 1930 May 60 44 21st
Contract Record. -- 1926 Sept 52 40 22nd
Contract Record. -- 1916 Dec. 1182 30 13th
East Block of the Ontario... 1928 n/a all
Journal / Board of Trade - - - 1930 April 14

End of record
Address: 0 Roxborough Drive
Type of Building: Official Residences
Name of Building: Chorley Park

Dates
Building completed 1911-1915

Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Contract Record and Engineering Review 1912 Nov. 63-64 26 48
Globe & Mail 1961 March mag. 25th
Lost Toronto : images of the city's past 1993 n/a 220-
Toronto Star 2001 Mar. N12 10th