G. Keith Pickard (back row, far right) is one of seven Canadian architects who attended an orientation course at Arnprior, Ontario, to find out more about civil defense in Canada. Courtesy RAIC Journal, September 1962
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Photo taken at CFB Summerside RCAF Club 1958-59. G. Keith Pickard became a member of the Association of Professional Engineers of PEI during its first year of active operation 1955-56. At the time there wasn't an Architect's Association on PEI. In the photo, members of the Professional Engineers Association met with engineers who were in service. Photo from 50 Years of Engineering Excellence in Prince Edward Island.
Maritime Architects Meet - Extract from The Guardian September 20, 1965
Island architects met with architects from New Brunswick and Nova Scotia Saturday in Charlottetown to discuss the possibility of forming an architectural association on Prince Edward Island. Island architects were guests of N.B. and N.S. associations of architects at a one-day convention held at the Confederation Centre. From the left are Alfred Hennessey, Keith Pickard, Charlottetown architects; Robert Chatwin, Saint John, N.B., chairman of the New Brunswick Association of Architects and Allan Duffus, Halifax, N.S., chairman of the Nova Scotia Association of Architects.
1982 G. Keith Pickard, Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada College with Jean
Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, College of Fellows
"A Fellow of the RAIC College is a Member of the RAIC who has achieved professional eminence or has rendered distinctive service to the profession or to the community at large. Nomination and advancement to Fellowship is administered by the RAIC College. A Member must have been a member of the RAIC for at least five (5) non-consecutive years prior to nomination. Fellowship is bestowed for life and is one of the highest honours the RAIC can confer upon a Member." RAIC
Citation printed in the RAIC Awards Book of Honorary Fellows and Fellows elected to the College of Fellows 1982
George Keith Pickard, B. Arch, F.R.A.I.C.
Keith Pickard is a native of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island and served as a Flying Officer with the Royal Canadian Air Force in World War II. He attended McGill University where he received his Bachelor of Architecture Degree in 1953.
Having practised architecture for the past 28 years, Mr. Pickard has been responsible for a significant contribution to Island architecture. He has been very active in community affairs such as the Rural Beautification Society, City of Charlottetown Planning Board, Electric Service League of P.E.I., Charlottetown Area Chamber of Commerce and the P.E.I. Tourist Association.
Mr. Pickard has been responsible for the collection and protection of valuable historical documents of Prince Edward Island architectural history. It is important for Island architects to know that Mr. Pickard has these records in his possession and that they are available for historic reserach at any time.
Note: the reference to valuable historical documents relates to drawings by PEI Architect, William Critchlow Harris (1854-1913) and the website below includes this recognition:
Two large folios of architectural drawings and watercolours by William Critchlow Harris were donated to the Confederation Centre Art Gallery and Museum in Charlottetown by the Charlottetown architect G. Keith Pickard and form the basis of an exhibition organized by the museum and curated by Dr Robert C. Tuck which toured several Canadian art galleries and museums between 1994 and 1996. Its catalogue, Gothic dreams: the architecture of William Critchlow Harris (1854–1913), comp. R. C. Tuck (Charlottetown, 1994), includes a photographic inventory of 132 buildings designed by Harris, among them many that are no longer standing, along with several dozen colour plates of his drawings.
http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/harris_william_critchlow_14E.html
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