This talk is part of the Online Autumn Lecture Series 2025 called Hot Off The Press: Victorians in the Bookshops. Follow this link to book all of the lectures.
Our autumn lecture series celebrates the remarkable recent flourishing of publications on Victorian architecture and related topics. All the speakers are the authors of new books, either just published or forthcoming. Among them are two contributors to the highly successful series Victorian Architects, published by the Victorian Society in collaboration with Liverpool University Press. As well as discussions of individual architects, the subjects of the lectures range from interiors of the Aesthetic Movement to one of the greatest of all Victorian collectors.
Toronto Edwardian: Frank Darling, Architect of Canada’s Imperial Age by David Winterton
In 1870–73 a young Canadian architectural student, Frank Darling (1850–1923), was employed in London in the office of George Edmund Street. After his return to Canada, he became a leading exponent of Edwardian Baroque and one of the country’s most prominent architects, responsible in particular for many of Toronto’s key buildings, including the headquarters of the Bank of Montreal and the University of Toronto’s Convocation Hall. David Winterton’s Toronto Edwardian, the first monograph on Darling, will be published by McGill-Queen’s University Press in the autumn.
All attendees will be sent a recording of the talk.