CUTHBERT, Arthur Boyd (1903-35) was the staff architect to the Shell Oil Co. and designed dozens of 'moderne' styled auto service stations for the company from 1930 to 1935. Born in Lindsay, Ont. on 6 November 1903, he graduated from the Department of Architecture at the University of Toronto in 1925 and trained in Toronto with Wickson & Gregg in 1925-26. Cuthbert then moved to Detroit where he was employed as a draftsman by some of the leading firms there including Albert Kahn (in 1926-27) and with Smith, Hinchman & Grylls (in 1927-29). In February 1930 he joined Shell Oil Co. in Canada and began a promising career as their staff architect that was cut short by his untimely death on 14 November 1935 (inf. Ontario Assoc. of Architects).
TORONTO, ONT. Shell Oil Gas Station, Eglinton Avenue West near Bathurst Street, c. 1934; demol. (Tim Morawetz, Art Deco Architecture Across Canada, 2017, 229, illus. & descrip.)