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Trinity Book Launch: Toronto Edwardian by David Winterton

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Join us for the Trinity launch of , the landmark new book by architect and historian David Winterton, Principal at ERA Architects.

This special evening will highlight the deep architectural relationship between Frank Darling and Trinity College, one that spanned five decades and culminated in the design of the Hoskin Avenue campus. Winterton will discuss the making of the book and explore how Darling’s Edwardian vision shaped not only Toronto’s major institutions but Trinity’s identity in particular.

Date: Thursday, March 26, 2026
Time: 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Location: Trinity College – Seeley Hall

This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required.

About the Book:
Published by McGill–Queen’s University Press (2026), Toronto, Edwardian is the first full monograph on Frank Darling, architect of Canada’s imperial age. Through richly illustrated scholarship, David Winterton traces Darling’s career from his early commissions on Trinity’s former Queen Street West campus to his final masterpiece, the new Trinity College built beside Queen’s Park.

The book situates Darling within the broader world of Edwardian architecture and examines how his work shaped the cultural and institutional fabric of early-twentieth-century Canada.

About the Author:
David Winterton is a Principal at ERA Architects and an architectural historian whose work examines Canada’s Edwardian built environment and its ties to the late British world. Raised Anglican in Woodstock and educated at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Architecture, he lived “Trinity-adjacent” during his student years at historic Devonshire House.

Winterton has spent years researching Frank Darling’s life and practice, culminating in Toronto Edwardian, the first comprehensive study of this influential Canadian architect. His work draws on extensive archival research, much of it supported by Trinity College’s own collections, and brings new insight to the architectural and cultural forces that shaped early modern Toronto.

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