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Henry E. Ewart
Henry Ewart was the son of David Ewart, Canada’s Chief Dominion Architect from 1896 to 1914. Henry’s brother was an acclaimed Ottawa architect.1) Henry Ewart assisted T.W. Fuller in designing and constructing the new government buildings in Dawson for the Department of Public Works (DPW).2) After the DPW job was finished, Ewart stayed on in Dawson for a season and went into practice for himself. He designed and supervised the construction of the Dawson Amateur Athletic Association building and several others.3)
1)
“David Ewart.” Wikipedia, 2019 website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ewart
2)
Harold Kalman, A History of Canadian Architecture. Part 2. Toronto: Oxford University Press. 1994: 546.
3)
“City News in Brief.” Dawson Daily News (Dawson), 13 December 1902 in Margaret Archibald, “By Federal Design: The Chief Architect's Branch of the Department of Public Works, 1881-1914.” Parks Canada Studies in Archaeology, 1983: 4 footnote 46.
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