LINDSAY, Harold (1895-1960), a native of Prestopans, East Lothian, Scotland, was born on 20 February 1895 and emigrated to Canada with his family who settled in Toronto in 1905. He attended high school in Weston, a suburb of Toronto, but appears to have had no formal education in architecture. Instead, he worked as an apprentice in the office of Andrew Sharp in 1911-15, and for Sharp & Horner in 1919-25, gaining valuable experience when he was placed in charge of the design and detailing of a major addition to the Mutual Life Assurance Co., in Waterloo, Ont. in 1921. He later worked in the office of Horwood & White, and for Wickson & Gregg (1925-26), then joined Darling & Pearson (in 1927-31) where he supervised the design and construction of Private Patient’s Building at the Toronto General Hospital. In late 1931 he was invited by James Govan to join the partnership with William M. Ferguson, another Toronto architect (see list of works under Govan, Ferguson & Lindsay). They specialized in the design of hospital and medical buildings, and Lindsay personally supervised the construction of the Tower Pavilion for the Toronto Western Hospital, Bathurst Street (1934-35), and the Hospital for Sick Children, University Avenue (1948-50). In 1947 their office added four new partners, Benjamin Kaminker, Samuel H. Maw, J.B. Langley, and Patrick H. Keenleyside, and the firm continued to dominate the field of hospital design in Canada for the next two decades. Lindsay died in Toronto on 13 April 1960 (obit. Globe & Mail [Toronto], 14 April 1960, 11; Ottawa Citizen, 16 April 1960, 45; obituary, Times & Guide [Weston], 21 April 1960, 12; R.A.I.C. Journal, xxxvii, June 1960, 272; inf. Ontario Assoc. of Architects; inf. Mrs. Margaret Lindsay, Guelph, Ont.).
WESTON, ONT. [in West Toronto], Westminster United Church, William Street at Wadsworth Boulevard, 1952 (Times & Guide [Weston], 9 Dec. 1954, 12, descrip.; with bronze plaque dedicated to Harold Lindsay, Architect mounted in the foyer of the church in 1954)