death_date death_place birth_place practice awards nationality birth_date article_title name alma_mater
24 april 1905 toronto , ontario garryvacum in county laois , ireland , john george howard imperial service order . canadian 1820 kivas tully
 kivas tully royal naval school
kivas tully

kivas tully -lrb- 1820 -- 24 april 1905 -rrb- was an irish-canadian architect .
born in garryvacum in county laois , ireland , kivas tully was the son of john p. tully , a lieutenant in the royal navy , and alicia willington .
he trained as an architect at the royal naval school in london , england , before coming to the province of canada in 1844 , arriving in toronto , where he began working at the firm of john george howard , designing many important buildings throughout southern ontario .
following canadian confederation , tully joined the ontario department of public works in 1868 .
he was appointed the first ontario provincial architect -lrb- 1868 -- 1896 -rrb- and engineer .
he was involved in the supervising of the competition leading to the design of the ontario legislative building 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 parry sound 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 imperial service order .
he had retired in 1896 and died in toronto on 24 april 1905 .
