Smart, John Lindsay | Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada

SMART, John Lindsay (1882-1938), active in Regina, Sask. as an architect and assistant in the office of Sharon & Tripp (1910), and with Sharon & Darrach (in 1911-12). Born in Manchester, England on 18 April 1882, he was educated there and trained in the office of Maxwell & Tuke, Architects, then emigrated to Canada in 1910, settling in Regina, Sask. When Maurice Sharon was appointed as Assistant Architect for the Saskatchewan Dept. of Public Works in 1914, Sharon invited J.L. Smart to join the department as chief draftsman, and he remained there until 1919. He was a particularly gifted delineator and draftsman; his impressive perspective drawing signed "J.L. Smart, delt." and showing Sharon's design for the Normal School (1919) is now held in the drawings collection of the Dept. of Public Works in Regina. Smart returned to his hometown of Manchester, England in late 1919 and later died there on 30 November 1938 (biog. E.J. Gilbert, Saskatchewan Assoc. of Architects: Up The Years with the S.A.A., 1969, 15; inf. England & Wales, National Probate Calendar, 1938, p. 444).