HENDERSON, Peter (1884-1944), architect of Montreal, Que. where he held the position of Assistant Chief Architect with the Canadian National Railways at their head office. He served directly under the supervision of John Schofield, Chief Architect to the C.N.R., and in 1937-38 he worked as Assistant Architect overseeing the design and construction of the Hotel Vancouver, the largest railway hotel in western Canada. Born in Dundee, Scotland on 24 June 1884, he studied architecture at Dundee Technical School and served an apprenticeship in that city. At the age of 19 years, he left Scotland and moved to Canada in 1903 and settled in Montreal and trained with a number of architectural firms there, and later was the local supervising architect for the Toronto firm of Darling & Pearson for their major commission in Montreal for the Sun Life Insurance Co. Headquarters (1914-18; with major additions 1923-25 and 1927-31).
In September 1925 he left Canada and moved to New York City where he worked in the office of Shultze & Weaver, Architects until November 1926, then joined the office of Warren & Wetmore and was designer and draftsman there until March 1929 when he returned to Montreal. Henderson died in Montreal on 23 November 1944 (obituary The Gazette [Montreal, 25 Nov. 1944, 14; biog. and port Vancouver Sun, 27 May 1939, Section Two, p. 8; inf. Province of Quebec Assoc. of Architects; inf. Ontario Assoc. of Architects)
Peter Henderson (works in Montreal)
HAMPSTEAD, QUE., residence for an unnamed client, 1935 (C.H.G., xiii, Jan-Feb. 1936, 39, illus.)