Ed Weinberg

After Newtonbrook, I went to U of T for 3 years and studied history and political science. While making applications for law school, I had a change of heart and decided to apply for architecture, which I always had an interest in but was discouraged from perusing by the guidance councilor at Newtonbrook because I couldn’t draw. I ended up going to Carleton in Ottawa, discovered that I had an aptitude for design (I still can’t draw) and completed a bachelors degree. I then worked for a year in Toronto and went to graduate school at Yale in the U.S.

I had actually thought about teaching, but after ten years in university I lost interest. My visa allowed me to stay in the U.S. for a while to work. So I went to New York and ended up staying for 7 years before returning to Toronto (which I naturally missed!). I met and married my wife, Barbara, in New York in the meantime and convinced her that Canada was a land of opportunity, despite her being a book editor. It turned out in fact Toronto was a good place for her to work.

So I returned in 1990 and played gypsy for quite a stretch before setting up my own company – I’m a single practitioner – in 2003. Today I do a lot of residential and elder care work. My biggest client employs me to monitor the work of other architects they retain to design retirement homes.

Barbara and I have 2 kids, a son 15 and a daughter 12 and we live downtown around the corner from Marsha Abramson. I see Marcia Sokolowski a fair bit because our kids go to the same Hebrew School at the JCC and we’ve both served on the school’s Board at the same time. Upon occasion I see Hushy Rechtsman because we’re cousins. Virtually everybody else -I suppose because you all live in Thornhill! – I see only at reunions. I’m looking forward to finding out everyone else is doing.

Me and my family from this past winter.