Stewart, George Muir | Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada

STEWART, George Muir (1884-1951), active in Montreal, Que. where he appears to have maintained an office under his own name in 1924-27, but no works by him have yet been identified. Born in Glasgow, Scotland on 1 June 1884, he was a pupil of H. Mitchell in Glasgow (in 1898-1901), and served an apprenticeship with Stewart & Paterson in that city from 1901 to 1906. During the period from 1898 to 1906 he also attended day and evening classes at the Glasgow School of Architecture. Stewart then spent six years as draftsman for the Glasgow firm of Burnet & Boston, and emigrated to Canada in 1912. For the next decade, he worked for various Montreal architectural firms, joining the P.Q.A.A. in 1921, then opened his own office in 1923 or 1924. By 1927 he had decided to move to Toronto, taking a position with Darling & Pearson, the leading firm in that city, and remained with them from 1927 to 1933. His membership in the Ontario Assoc. of Architects lapsed in June 1934. He later died in Montreal on 4 February 1951 (inf. Ontario Assoc. of Architects).