Edmund Burke (1851–1919) was a highly regarded Canadian architect best known for building Toronto's Prince Edward Viaduct or "Bloor Street Viaduct", and Toronto's Robert Simpson store.
He served as the vice-president, then President of the Ontario Association of Architects.
Burke was born in Toronto to parents with ties to building industry: Burke attended Jesse Ketchum Public School, Upper Canada College and Toronto Mechanics' Institute[2] before apprenticing as an architect with his maternal uncle and forming the firm Langley and Burke in 1873.
Most of Burke's professional career was in Toronto and he lived a little more than a decade after his uncle's death.
Burke died in the city and is buried at Mount Pleasant Cemetery, where he designed the mortuary chapel in 1893.