About Jean Wallbridge
Lived 1912 – 1979 (aged 66). Jean Wallbridge was a Canadian painter and architect.
Jean Louise Emberly Wallbridge (October 25, 1912 – September 30, 1979) was a Canadian architect. In 1950, with Mary Imrie, she was one of the first Canadian women to form an architectural partnership. She was educated at private schools in Victoria, British Columbia, Switzerland and England and at Victoria Composite High School in Edmonton. Wallbridge went on to study architecture with Cecil Burgess at the University of Alberta, receiving a BSc in Applied Science in 1939. In 1957, they won the Canadian Housing Design Council award.
Wallbridge and Imrie built their own home "Six Acres" in Edmonton, where they lived as a couple.
Wallbridge died in Edmonton at the age of 66.
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Canadian architect (1912-1979)
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Jean Wallbridge was born on 25 October 1912 in Edmonton.
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Jean Wallbridge died on 30 September 1979.
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Jean Wallbridge was a painter and architect.
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Jean Wallbridge was Canadian.
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