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Robert Parker Associates Limited, a Halifax-based architectural firm, was incorporated in 1987. Previously the firm was known as Parker Truitt Associates (1974-1980) and G. Robert Parker Associates (1980-1987). The firm's founder and president was G. Robert Parker, an American born and educated architect/planner who had accumulated extensive local, provincial and international experience in the disciplines of environmental, urban and regional planning, and in community development architectural projects. He was a prime consultant for restoration projects such as St, Michael's Russian Orthodox Church, Sitka, Alaska, (1958-1959); in Nova Scotia these included Historic Properties, Halifax (1970-1973); McCully House, Halifax (1989-1992); Stella Maris Church, Pictou (1990-1991); the Junior Ranks Mess at CFB Greenwood, (1993); and a century-old sea captain's house on Paddy Head. His large scale master planning projects included the Mainland Common (Halifax), the Dartmouth Waterfront Development Project, and the TUNS-Infirmary Site Redevelopment Proposal. In the field of heritage planning his projects included the production of an urban design study to determine the impact of future development on the Halifax Public Gardens and a Peggy's Cove planning and development strategy. He also developed projects in the United States, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Besides his work as an architect, he was also an associate professor at NSCAD, and presented professional papers widely across Canada and the United Kingdom. He was awarded several fellowships and research grants to undertake studies in "self-help" housing and was the recipient of a number of awards, including the Governor-General's Award from the Canadian Housing Design Council in 1985 for outstanding work in the restoration of a Victorian house at Indian Harbour, Nova Scotia, and an environmental award from the Nova Scotia Department of Environment in 1983. Upon his retirement in 1997 his firm was dissolved.