Cotton, Peter Neve

COTTON, Peter Neve, architect (b 1918, Merritt; d 1978, Victoria). He was BC's first architectural historian and first serious restoration architect. After serving in Egypt and Italy during WWII he enrolled at UBC, where he was instrumental in pressuring the administration to establish the School of Architecture (from which he graduated in 1955). He apprenticed with Col W. Ridgeway-Wilson, then joined the design section of the provincial department of public works, where he was...

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