Barwick, Oliver Archibald | Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada

BARWICK, Oliver Archibald (1889-1956) was born in Montreal on 3 January 1889 and trained in the offices of MacVicar & Heriot, Peden & MacLaren, Ross & MacFarlane and with Ernest I. Barott between 1905 and 1913. He graduated from the Dept. of Architecture at McGill University in 1914 and later worked as a local construction supervisor to Thomas W. Lamb of New York. In 1923 he obtained a position of Staff Architect for the Imperial Oil Co. and designed more than forty service stations in Ontario and Quebec in a variety of eclectic styles from 1923 to 1930. He later worked as senior Assistant Architect at the Dept. of National Defence in Ottawa in 1934-39 and was employed by Ross & MacDonald after WWII. Barwick died in Montreal on 11 March 1956 (obit. Gazette [Montreal], 14 March 1956, 33; Engineering Journal, xxxix, May 1956, 665; inf. Prov. of Quebec Association of Architects)