BLAIR, David (1861-c. 1920), an obscure name which first appears in the Vancouver, B.C. area in 1910, and he was recorded in the following year as an architect (Canada, 1911 Census, British Columbia - Vancouver). In 1912 he was listed as an architect working from an office on West Pender Street (Vancouver City Directory, 1912, 572). In that year, he was noted as the designer of 22 houses in SOUTH VANCOUVER, B.C., in the zone bounded by Windsor Street, Ross Street and Kensington Street, between East 35th and East 37th Street, for a client called the British Canadian Investment Co. He was also credited as the architect of several houses in Point Grey, and his last work dates from 1920. No references to hie projects have been found after this date (inf. Patrick Gunn, City of Vancouver).
VANCOUVER, residence for Edmund. Caspell, West 14th Avenue, 1910 (Vancouver b.p. dated 26 July 1910)
SHAUGHNESSY HEIGHTS, large residence for James A. Cockburn, Laurier Avenue at Cartier Street, 1912 (Point Grey b.p. 204, 13 Aug. 1912; Province [Vancouver], 26 Oct. 1912, 30, illus. & descrip.)
SOUTH VANCOUVER, a tract of 22 detached bungalows in the neighbourhood bounded by Windsor Street, Ross Street, and Kensington Street, between East 35th Street and East 37th Street, for the British Canadian Investment Co. (Great Vancouver Chinook [Vancouver], 18 May 1912, 2)
SOUTH VANCOUVER, three detached bungalows on Elgin Street, for the British Canadian Investment Co., 1912 (Vancouver b.p. 2188, 24 Sept. 1912)
PACIFIC STREET, residence for Philip T. Bratt, 1913 (Vancouver b.p. 5230, 26 June 1913)
POINT GREY, large residence for John S. Gordon, Pine Crescent at Matthews Avenue, 1913 (Point Grey b.p. 1027, 23 Aug. 1913)
POINT GREY, residence for Mrs. Morley J. Morrison, Balsam Street, Kitsilano, 1914 (Point Grey b.p. dated 21 May 1914)
POINT GREY, residence for Creighton Blair, West 45th Avenue, 1920 (Vancouver b.p. 2613, 12 March 1920)