# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/blanche-lemco-van-ginkel
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:35:08.322Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/blanche-lemco-van-ginkel"
name: "Blanche Lemco van Ginkel"
slug: "blanche-lemco-van-ginkel"
description: "Blanche Lemco van Ginkel was a British-born Canadian architect, city planner, and educator who worked mostly in Montreal and Toronto. She is known for her Modernist designs, as well as for planning Expo 67 and spearheading the preservation of Old Montreal. Lemco van Ginkel was the first woman to head a faculty of architecture in Canada and be elected a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. She was also the first woman to be awarded a fellowship by the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada and in 2020, was awarded their highest honour, the RAIC Gold Medal."
tagline: "Canadian architect (1923–2022)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1b/Photo_of_Blanche_Lemco_van_Ginkel.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Architects"
  slug: "architects"
profileType:
  name: "Architect"
  slug: "architect"
birthDate: "1923-12-14"
deathDate: "2022-10-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             15
  historical:           5.472462666666667
  currentAttention:     100
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump