[2] Abel Joseph "Jack" Diamond was born in 1932 in South Africa, and had arrived in Canada in 1964, the same year he started working for the University of Toronto.
In 1970, Diamond had begun renovating a ceramics manufacturing plant, and adding living spaces on one of the floors.
Donald Schmitt was born 1951 in South Porcupine, a small mining town in northern Ontario.
[4] Diamond Schmitt Architects has received numerous regional, national and international awards for excellence in design.
The firm was recognized in 2009 by Deloitte LLP, the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, KPMG, and the Queen's University School of Business as being one of the 50 Best Managed Companies in Canada.