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Menu Home Upfront Now Up Books Towns Structures People Firms Lexicon HODGINS, Arthur Edward Born: 1861 04 15 Died: 1939 12 18 Architect Was born in Toronto and educated there at Upper Canada College. He graduated from Royal Military College in Kingston with a degree in civil engineering in 1882, and gained much of his experience as a railway engineer. He is best known for his distinctive High Victorian commercial buildings and the elaborate Queen Anne residential works he designed. His career as an architect ended when, in 1899, he left for South Africa to serve in the Boer War, remaining there to work as officer in charge of IMPERIAL MILITARY RAILWAYS (IMR). He returned to Canada in 1904 and joined the Grand Trunk Railway as district engineer, and later held a similar posting with the Provincial Government as district engineer for Vancouver Island. He died in Victoria, Canada. [There is a listing of this practitioner on Dictionary of Architects in Canada from which this entry has been created.]