Born 10 September 1895, in
Bucharest,
Romania, he moved to London at the age of three with his widowed mother, Tillie Hohan. In 1902, they moved to
Toronto, and then his mother married Frank Kaplan. During his teenage years, he stayed for a while in Philadelphia with one of his relatives. After returning to Toronto, Kaplan went to Toronto Technical School where he studied architecture and building construction. He married Dorothy Spain in 1923. His work was part of the
architecture event in the
art competition at the
1948 Summer Olympics. The firm designed the historic
Anshei Minsk Synagogue, the Shaarei Shomayim synagogue, both in Toronto, Beth Israel Synagogue in Edmonton, Beth Israel in Vancouver, Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care, the new Mount Sinai Hospital,
Oakdale Golf & Country Club and numerous other synagogues and institutions throughout the country. Overall, they designed more than 70 theaters which were built across Canada between the late 1920s and the early 1950s. ==References==