Livingston, Hugh d'Alton | Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada

LIVINGSTON, Hugh d'Alton (1892-1917), a project architect and staff member of the busy and successful office of Angus & Angus, Architects of North Bay, Ont. He was born in Hamilton, Ont. on 30 January 1892 and raised in Brantford, Ont. and Livingston graduated with honours from the Dept. of Architecture at the University of Toronto in 1913, and spent a full year in Paris, France pursuing his studies, perhaps at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, before returning to his hometown of Brantford. He was given responsibility for the design and construction of the 4 storey Department Store for E.B. Crompton Co. Ltd., one of the largest retail stores in western Ontario to be completed after 1900. He “….displayed natural gifts as an artist…and was one of the best architects in the Dominion” (Brantford Daily Expositor, 30 Oct. 1915, 11). This 1915 article also contains a detailed architectural description of his work on Crompton Store, completed in 1915. Livingston went overseas with Canadian Expeditionary Forces in March 1916 and was killed in action in France during WW1. He died near Monchy, Pas-de-Calais on 27 August 1918 (obituary Brantford Expositor, 3 Sept. 1918, 5)