Alice Malhiot, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Alice Malhiot

Date of Birth: 13-Aug-1889

Date of Death: 10-Jun-1968

Profession: architect

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Alice Malhiot

  • Alice Charlotte Malhiot (August 13, 1889 – June 10, 1968) is believed to be the first Canadian woman to graduate from an architectural school. The daughter of Zephirin Malhiot, a civil engineer, and Domiltide "Tilly" Hart, she was born in eastern Ontario.
  • She received a diploma in architecture from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1910.
  • Malhiot returned to Calgary, where she was employed by a firm of architects until 1913.
  • In 1911, she enrolled in the Department of Architecture at the University of Alberta.
  • It was reported that she was the first woman to graduate from a Canadian architecture school in 1914, but it was later determined that she had graduated only in the field of sanitary science.Following a decline in the economy, Malhiot was only able to find employment as a clerk and then stenographer.
  • In 1917, she married Hugh Ross, a lumber dealer.
  • She worked from her home in Duffield, Alberta, preparing designs for buildings for her husband's business.
  • After her husband died in 1944, she worked for an Edmonton construction firm designing single family homes.
  • Mahliot went on to complete post-graduated studies in interior design, landscape architecture and town planning at the Rhode Island School of Design.She died in Edmonton at the age of 78.

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