1 John George Howard

John George Howard was born as John Corby in Hertfordshire, England, where he attended boarding school. At age 15, he joined the navy. He acquired skills in navigation, geometry and marine surveying and began a career in land surveying, engineering and architecture after leaving the navy. He worked for a number of architects – his uncle at Kensington Cross, London architects John Grayson and William Ford, and a firm of contracting architects in Maidstone. Around 1833, he immigrated to York (Toronto) in Upper Canada where he was appointed city surveyor. He became an important teacher, political figure and naturalist; he was one of the first professional architects to settle in Toronto. From 1833-56, Howard was a drawing instructor at Upper Canada College and, from 1853-57, he was a Justice of the Peace. His best-known religious buildings were Holy Trinity Anglican (Chippawa, 1840), Christ Church Anglican (Tyendinaga, 1843) and St. John's Anglican York Mills (Toronto, 1843). He also laid out St. James Cemetery on Parliament Street (Toronto). In 1873, Howard and his wife Jemima Frances Meikle deeded High Park to the City of Toronto. His home – Colborne Lodge, which Howard designed in 1836 – was also willed to the city.

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