Mary Clark (born 1936) is a Canadian architect. She is also known as Mary Patterson Clark. She was born in

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and, in 1959, received her

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from the

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. In the same year, she married architect Clive Clark. Clark then worked for firms in North Bay and Toronto. From 1969 to 1972, she worked independently and then was a research coordinator for a land use study by James Weller. She worked on the development of urban transportation in Toronto during the 1970s. In 1973, she became a registered member of the

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. In 1984, she received a

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in planning from the University of Toronto. During the 1980s and 1990s, she worked as an archival researcher for the project "For the Record: The First Women in Canadian Architecture". In 1988, she produced reports on women architecture graduates from Canadian universities and on registered Canadian women architects. In 1986, she began practising in

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, Clark retired from practice in 2000.

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