Kivas Tully,

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(1820 – 24 April 1905) was an

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architect.

Life

Born in Garryvacum in

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, Ireland, Kivas Tully was the son of John P. Tully, a lieutenant in the

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, and Alicia Willington. He trained as an architect at the

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in London, England, before coming to the Province of Canada in 1844, arriving in

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, where he began working at the firm of

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, designing many important buildings throughout southern

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. Following

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, Tully joined the Ontario Department of Public Works in 1868. He was appointed the first Ontario Provincial architect (1868–1896) and engineer. He was involved in the supervising of the competition leading to the design of the

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at Queen's Park. As the provincial department of public works' chief architect, Tully supervised a series of district courthouses built in northern Ontario. The courthouse at

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designed in 1871 still forms the core of the present courthouse complex. The Ontario Archives hold drawings for virtually all provincial buildings including courthouses, registry offices, goals & lock-ups, schools and colleges, hospitals and other works executed under his supervision from 1896 until 1926. In 1903, Tully was awarded the

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. He had retired in 1896 and died in Toronto on 24 April 1905.

Works

Some of his more prominent projects include:

Personal

Tully was married twice, first to Elizabeth Drew in 1844 (died 1847) and Maria Elizabeth Strickland in 1852 (died 1883). He had four daughters, and was survived by two, including the artist Sydney Strickland Tully (1860–1911), when he died in 1905.

Publications

* ''Preliminary report of the engineer, on the survey of the various routes, for the proposed ship canal, to connect the waters of lakes Huron & Ontario at Toronto'', presented to the president of the Board of Trade, 1857.

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