SAVAGE, Hubert (1884-1955) was active in Victoria, B.C. in the following offices:
Hubert Savage, November 1912 -1927
James & Savage, 1928 - May 1933
Hubert Savage, June 1933 to after 1950
Savage was born in London, England on 1 July 1884 and was educated at Hillmartin College in London, and at Verulam College in St. Alban’s. He served an architectural apprenticeship in London with E. Harding Payne (in 1900-03), then worked as an assistant with William H. Burt (in 1904), with William Stewart (in 1906), and as chief assistant to John Slater in London (in 1907-10). He was elected as an Associate Member of the Royal Inst. of British Architects in 1910, but in 1912 he decided to emigrate to Canada and settled in Victoria, B.C. He opened his own office there in November 1912 and much of his practise was devoted to the design of private residences.
Savage brought a decidedly English style and aesthetic approach to his residential commissions on Vancouver Island, and he was one of the few Canadian architects to have his work featured in the leading British art journal called The Studio Yearbook [London, England], 1924, pp. 29 and 71, illus. He joined a select group of other Canadians including Henry Sproatt, Samuel Maclure, Robert Findlay and F.S. Baker in having their architectural work featured in the issues of this British publication. In late 1928, he was invited by Percy L. James to form a partnership in Victoria (Const., xxi, Nov. 1928, 394; see list of works under James & Savage). Their new firm of remained active for the next five years, but the deep financial recession in North America prompted them to dissolve their business in 1933 (R.A.I.C. Journal, x, June 1933, 117). Both continued to work independently after this date. Savage served as vice-president of the Architectural Inst. of British Columbia (1931-34), and he held the post of Secretary of the Victoria chapter of the A.I.B.C. for two separate terms.
Savage retired in 1954 and died in Victoria on 28 April 1955 (obit. Daily Colonist [Victoria], 29 April 1955, 13; obit. Victoria Daily Times, 3 May 1955, 23; Royal Inst. of British Architects [London], Application for Membership dated 27 July 1910; biog. in Ross Hamilton, Prominent Men of Canada, 1931-32, 259-60; biog. Who’s Who in Canada, Vol. 2, 1936-37, 968; biog. and list of works in D. Luxton, Building The West, 2003, 414, 517). A detailed list of works by Savage was published in 2005 by Rosemary J. Cross in her book entitled The Life & Times of Victoria Architect P. Leonard James, p. 203-10. The Victoria City Archives holds a collection of drawings by Savage prepared between 1913 and 1950.
HUBERT SAVAGE (works in Victoria)
PUBLIC BATHS & AQUARIUM, 1913 (Daily Colonist [Victoria], 9 Feb. 1913, 12, illus.)
ST. CHARLES STREET, "Frogmore", a residence for Walter Poole, 1914 (Victoria Heritage Foundation, This Old House: Victoria’s Heritage Neighbourhoods, Vol. 3, 2021, 234, illus. & descrip.)
CRAIGDARROCH ROAD, residence for Samuel Greenwood, 1925-26 (Victoria Daily Times, 15 March 1926, 2; Victoria Heritage Foundation, This Old House: Victoria’s Heritage Neighbourhoods, Vol. 3, 2021, 160, illus. & descrip.)
FOUL BAY ROAD, Near Runnymede Street, residence for Hugh Ferguson, 1926 (Victoria Daily Times, 27 March 1926, 1; R.A.I.C. Journal, v, Nov. 1928, 415, illus.)
VICTORIA BASKETBALL & TENNIS ARENA, Cook Street at Caledonia Avenue, 1927 (Victoria Daily Times, 29 Jan. 1927, 8, descrip.)
CRESCENT ROAD, near Irving Street, residence for Lucy E. Dove, 1928 (Victoria Daily Times, 10 March 1928, 4)
FOUL BAY ROAD, near Quamichan Street, residence for Oliver W. Pauline, 1928 (Victoria Daily Times, 2 March 1928, 3)
UPLANDS, an "English Cottage", designed for an unnamed client by Hubert Savage of James & Savage, and built in 1929-30 (Victoria Daily Times, 28 May 1932, Magazine Section, p. 7, with descrip. & illus.). This article is accompanied by an extensive essay by Savage on "The House of Today & Tomorrow"
(with “the late Samuel Maclure”) CRIDGE MEMORIAL HALL, at the Reformed Episcopal Church of Our Lord, Blanshard Street at Humboldt Street, 1930 (Daily Colonist [Victoria], 16 Feb. 1930, 6, illus.)
HEYWOOD AVENUE, residence for Eric Garman, 1939 (Victoria Heritage Foundation, This Old House: Victoria’s Heritage Neighbourhoods, Vol. 4, 2009, 70, illus. & descrip.)
GORGE ROAD, at Washington Avenue, Windsor Auto Court, a motel for Roosevelt S. Olson, 1941; demol. (Victoria Daily Times, 20 March 1941, 15; C.R., liv, 19 March 1941, 34)
(with David C. Frame & Percy L. James) VICTORIA MEMORIAL ARENA, Blanshard Street at Caledonia Avenue, 1946-48; demol. 2003 (Victoria Daily Times, 4 March 1946, 1; C.R., lx, April 1947, 98; M. Segger & D. Franklin, Exploring Victoria’s Architecture, 1996, 81, illus.)
STRAWBERRY VALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, 1950-51 (Victoria Daily Times, 11 Dec. 1950, 7)
HUBERT SAVAGE (works elsewhere)
SAANICH, residence for Hubert Savage, architect, Grange Road near Laburnum Road, 1913 (Donald Luxton & Jennifer Barr, Saanich Heritage Structures, 2008, 45, illus. & descrip.)
SAANICH, residence for J. Nichols, Cedar Hill Road near Mortimer Street, c. 1913; demol. (A.I.B.C., Membership Application for Hubert Savage, 1920, list of works)
KNAPP ISLAND, SWARTZ BAY, residence for James Swan Harvey, 1913 (D. Luxton, list of works)
SAANICH, residence for Hubert Alys, Grange Road, 1914 (M. Segger & D. Franklin, Exploring Victoria’s Architecture, 1996, 261, illus.)
ESQUIMALT, B.C., WWI War Memorial, situated in Memorial Park, Esquimalt Road near Grenville Street, designed 1923; completed 1927 (Victoria Daily Times, 17 Nov. 1923, 9)
SAHTLAM, B.C., [near Duncan, B.C.], a log house residence for an unnamed client, 1924 or earlier (Studio Yearbook [London, England], 1924, 29, 71, illus.)
GANGES, SALT SPRING ISLAND, B.C., a large three storey hotel for G. Roche, c. 1925 (dwgs at BCPA)
(with Samuel Maclure) MILL BAY, B.C., Queen Alexandra Solarium for Crippled Children, near Arbutus Road, facing Malahat Beach, 1926-27; demol. (Canadian Medical Association Journal [Ottawa], xxi, Dec. 1929, 702-06, illus. & descrip., but lacking attribution to the architects; Maltwood Museum, Univ. of Victoria, dwgs. in the Maclure Coll. 360-61)
SAANICH, residence for the architect Hubert Savage, Jasmine Avenue, 1927 (Donald Luxton & Jennifer Barr, Saanich Heritage Structures, 2008, 48, illus. & descrip.)
NORTH VANCOUVER, B.C, residence at Deep Cove for James Cate, 1928 (Victoria Daily Times, 10 March 1928, 4)
SAANICH, residence for Lt. Col. Henry Laws, Queenswood Drive, 1930 (Donald Luxton & Jennifer Barr, Saanich Heritage Structures, 2008, 28, illus. & descrip.)
VIEW ROYAL, B.C., major alterations to the old Four Mile House, to create the new Lantern Inn, Old Island Highway, 1931 (M. Segger & D. Franklin, Exploring Victoria’s Architecture, 1996, 284, illus.)
SAANICH, Cedar Hill Junior High School, Cedar Hill Road, 1931 (Donald Luxton & Jennifer Barr, Saanich Heritage Structures, 2008, 100, illus. & descrip.)
SAANICH, Mount View High School, Carey Road, 1932 (C.R., xlvii, 28 Sept. 1932, 1133)
SAANICH, residence for Thomas Hall, Burnside Road West, 1934 (Donald Luxton & Jennifer Barr, Saanich Heritage Structures, 2008, 40, illus. & descrip.)
(with K.B. Spurgin) ESQUIMALT, a new Drill Hall at the Naval Barracks, near Esquimalt Road, 1936 (The Province [Vancouver], 23 Jan. 1936, 16, descrip.)
SAANICH, residence for Frederick Beckett, Burnside Road West, 1936 (Donald Luxton & Jennifer Barr, Saanich Heritage Structures, 2008, 39, illus. & descrip.)
SIDNEY, B.C., residence for Miss Stuart, Beaufort Road, 1936 (M. Segger & D. Franklin, Exploring Victoria’s Architecture, 1996, 250, illus.)
FORBES LANDING, B.C., (near Campbell River), a new hotel, to replace the hotel burned in 1938 (Victoria Daily Times, 30 Dec. 1938, 11)
COMOX, B.C., several small houses on the estate of Sir Ernest Petter, off Ryan Road, 1938-39 (Victoria Daily Times, 30 Dec. 1938, 11)
COMOX, B.C., “The Fort”, a mansion for Sir Ernest W. Petter, off Ryan Road near Lerwick Road, overlooking the Gulf of Georgia, 1938-39, and now part of the campus of North Island College (Victoria Daily Times, 30 Dec. 1938, 11; descrip.; Vancouver Sun, 27 June 1939, 2, illus. & detailed architectural descrip.; and list of works in obituary, Victoria Daily Times, 3 May 1955, 23)
SAANICH, Royal Oak Inn, [also called “The Thatch” Tea & Dance Room] West Saanich Road at Viewmont Avenue, for Colin Forrest, V. Levy and D. Burnett, 1939, and later used as The Maltwood Museum (M. Segger, The Buildings of Samuel Maclure, 1986, 247, 250, illus.; M. Segger & D. Franklin, Exploring Victoria’s Architecture, 1996, 264-65, illus.; Donald Luxton & Jennifer Barr, Saanich Heritage Structures, 2008, 120, illus. & descrip.)
PORT ALBERNI, B.C., major addition to Public School, 1946 (Nanaimo Free Press, 25 Feb. 1946, 4, descrip.)
PORT ALBERNI, B.C., a Junior-Senior High School for Alberni School District No. 70, 1946-47 (Daily Colonist [Victoria], 5 Oct. 1946, 16)
COMOX, B.C., major addition to The Fort Hotel, for R. Charles Knox, 1947 (Daily Colonist [Victoria], 8 Sept. 1946, 18, descrip.)
DUNCAN, B.C., public school for the Cowichan School District No. 65, 1948 (C.R., lxi, April 1948, 140)
COURTENAY, B.C., Senior High School, 1949 (C.R., lxii, May 1949, 156)
DUNCAN, B.C., Junior & Senior High School, 1949-50 (C.R., lxii, Oct. 1949, 142; R.A.I.C. Journal, xxix, April 1952, 96-97, illlus.)