SWAN, William (1886-1973) was born in England and received his training with the firm of Fogg & Gribble in Tonbridge, Co. Kent. He emigrated to Canada in 1904 and settled in Saskatchewan where he worked as a designer and draftsman for a succession of firms including Nobles & Anderson, Prince Albert (in 1905), for John Woodman in Winnipeg (in 1907-10) and for Woodman & Carey (in 1911), for Clemesha & Coltman in Regina (in 1911-12), and Thompson, Daniel & Colthurst in Saskatoon (in 1912-13). He joined the Saskatchewan Assoc. of Architects in June 1912, and in 1914-15 he assisted Prof. A.R. Greig at the Univ. of Saskatchewan with prototypical farm building plans that were constructed on dozens of farmsteads across the Prairies. He served with the Canadian Army overseas in France during WWI, but was wounded there and returned to Canada. Swan accepted a position as Secretary Treasurer of Rural Municipality 248 at Punnichy, Sask. while continuing to practice architecture there, and designed several schools and small municipal buildings as well as supervising the construction of projects for the federal Dept. of Indian Affairs. He was associate architect to Clemesha & Portnall in 1923 when that firm was commissioned to design a school at Raymore, Sask (dwgs. at SAB, Portnall Coll.). Swan retired from the S.A.A. in March 1965 and died at White Rock, B.C. on 28 August 1973 (biog. E.J. Gilbert, Up The Years with the Saskatchewan Association of Architects, 1969, 17-18; inf. S.A.A. Application dated 4 June 1912; biog. and port. Between the Touchwoods: A History of Punnichy and Districts, 1983, 682-3; inf. Ross Herrington, Regina)
SEMANS, SASK., Masonic Temple, 1946-47 (inf. Frank Korvemaker, Regina)