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David Ewart

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18/02/1841

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06/06/1921

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David Ewart was born in Penicuik on 18 February 1841, the third son of John Ewart, builder, and his wife, Jean Cossar. He was educated in Penicuik and aprrenticed as a joiner in his father's firm. He also learned architectural drawing from Walter Carmichael in Edinburgh, studying at the Commercial Academy or the School of Arts 'where he obtained a thorough grounding in architecture'. His younger brother was James Cossar Ewart who later became a distinguished zoologist and Professor of Zoology at the University of Aberdeen and later Edinburgh.

In the 1860s David Ewart was employed at Helperby, in England, as clerk of works on the Myton Estate which belonged to the Stapylton family. In 1871 he emigrated to Canada where he became effectively second in command at the Federal Department of Public Works, first under T Seaton Scott, for whom he designed the Canadian Pavilion at the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1878, and then under Thomas Fuller who succeeded Scott in 1881.

Ewart eventually succeeded Thomas Fuller as Dominion Chief Architect in 1896. In 1901 he made a European tour, the architecture of the Department thereafter becoming a bold Edwardian baroque.

Ewart retired in 1914 at the age of seventy-three to become consulting architect to the Department, a post he held until his death on 6 June 1921. He was married twice: first to Jeanne Marie Doyen in York by whom he had five sons and one daughter; secondly, after the death of Jeanne Marie in 1885, to Annie Sigsworth Simpson in Ottawa, by whom he had four daughters and two sons.

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Penicuik Midlothian Scotland	Private

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Canada	Business

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Name	Name Link	Date From	Date To	Position	Notes
Federal Department of Public Works, Canada	206847	In year 1871	In year 1896		Second-in-command to the chief architect
Federal Department of Public Works, Canada	206847	In year 1896	In year 1914	Chief Architect	Dominion Chief Architect
Walter Carmichael	402829	Mid 1860s		Apprentice

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Author	Title	Date	Publisher	Notes
Canadian Biography	Dictionary of Canadian Biography	2005	Toronto, University of Toronto Press	Volume XV, 1921-30
Luxton, Donald (ed.)	Building the West: the early architects of British Columbia	2003	Vancouver: Talon Books	pp 231-2 & 259-60
A Cyclopaedia of Canadian Biography	A Cyclopaedia of Canadian Biography 1919	1919	Toronto
http://www.biographi.ca/	http://www.biographi.ca/			Accessed April 2009

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