David Ewart

David Ewart was a Canadian architect who served as Chief Dominion Architect from 1896 to 1914.

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As chief government architect he is responsible for many of the federal buildings constructed in this period. He broke with the Neo Gothic style adopted by his predecessors Thomas Seaton Scott and Thomas Fuller rather he embraced the Baronial style.

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Important buildings he designed include:

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• Victoria Memorial Building
• Royal Canadian Mint
• Connaught Building.

As federal architect he also oversaw the design and construction of post offices across Canada. His son John Albert Ewart was also a prominent Ottawa architect.

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Architect: An architect, also known as a building designer, is a person involved in the planning, designing and oversight of a building's construction, whose role is to guide decisions affecting those building aspects that are of aesthetic, cultural or social concern. More generally, an architect is the desig...

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