Profile

Architect of the twentieth century

‘A person of national historic significance.’

• Stanley was born in 1893.  

• He attended Malvern Collegiate.

• He served in the Canadian Artillery, World War 1, and received a citation as a gunner at Vimy Ridge.

• He was married twice; first to Ruth who died; then to Helen  Duthie; he had no children although he did adopt Helen’s son, Norman.

• In 1947, he was a co-founder of the prestigious American Society  of Golf Course Architects.

• In the last few years of his life he lived and worked at his home,  Dormie House in Guelph, alongside the course he had designed and later owned, Cutten Fields.

• His courses, and those of his disciples, continue to capture a high  percentage of the Top 100 Courses in Canada.