Kivas Tully (1820–April 24, 1905) was an Irish-Canadian architect. Irish Canadians are immigrants and descendants of immigrants who origninated in Ireland. An architect is a licensed individual who leads a design team in the Planning and Design of buildings and participates in oversight of Building Construction
Born in Garryvacum in County Laois, Ireland, Kivas Tully was the son of John P. County Laois (liːʃ Contae Laoise in Irish) formerly also Laoighis or Leix, is a County in the midlands of Ireland, Ireland (pronounced /ˈaɾlənd/ Éire) is the third largest island in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world Tully, a lieutenant in the Royal Navy, and Alicia Willington. The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the oldest of the British armed services (and is therefore known as the Senior Service) 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, Ontario, where he began working at the firm of John George Howard, designing many important buildings throughout southern Ontario. The Royal Naval School was an English School that was established in Camberwell, London, in 1833 and then formally constituted by London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page Toronto (təˈrɒntoʊ colloquially pronounced or) is the largest city in Canada and is the provincial capital of Ontario Ontario (ɒnˈtɛrioʊ is a province located in the central part of Canada, the largest by population and second largest after Quebec
Following Canadian Confederation, Tully joined the Ontario Department of Public Works in 1868, where he was involved in the supervising of the competition leading to the design of the Ontario parliament buildings at Queen's Park, Toronto. Canadian Confederation was the process by which the federal Dominion of Canada was formed beginning 1 July 1867 from the He retired in 1896 and died in 1905 in Toronto.
Some of his more prominent designs include: