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Gail Perry
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Writer, historian.
She was born, raised, and resident in Winnipeg where she was a lawyer with the judicial, executive, and legislative branches of the provincial government. For over 20 years, she has led downtown terra cotta tours for the Winnipeg Architecture Foundation and wrote its Winnipeg Architecture: A Terra Cotta Tour (1996 republished in 2012 at http://www.winnipegarchitecture.ca/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/WAF_ATerraCottaTour.pdf). Her book John D Atchison Architect: His Works & Times was published in 2026.
In recognition of her community service, she received a Lieutenant Governor's Award for Historical Preservation and Promotion (2020).
Her articles for the Manitoba Historical Society:
Titans of Clay: Winnipeg’s Terra Cotta Buildings
Manitoba History, Number 87, Summer 2018John D. Atchison Was Here
Prairie History, Number 1, Winter 2020Review: David Spector, Assiniboine Park, Designing and Developing a People’s Playground, Great Plains Publications, 2019
Prairie History, Number 2, Summer 2020
Page revised: 31 May 2026
