MUNN, Ewart Fitz (1885-1968) was born in Brighton, England on 2 July 1885 and served a four year apprenticeship there with H.W. Sanders. He emigrated to Canada in 1911 and was employed as a draftsman by Herbert E. Matthews in Winnipeg until 1914, then took a position with the federal Dept. of Public Works overseeing the construction of military buildings in Winnipeg during WWI. In 1924 he joined the office of Jordan & Over and later became a partner with Walter P. Over in 1927 (see list of works under Over & Munn). After the death of W.P. Over in 1944, Munn opened an office under his own name and practised until 1955. His largest and most important commission from his later career was his design for the Technical & Vocational High School, Wall Street, Winnipeg, first published in 1947 and built 1948-51. Munn served as the consulting architect for this late Art Deco work which is often credited solely to the local School Board architect William A. Martin. Munn held the post of Secretary of the Manitoba Association of Architects from 1914 until after 1950 and was elected President of the Association in 1944. He died in Winnipeg on 28 December 1968 (obituary in the Winnipeg Tribune, 30 Dec. 1968, 23; biog. and port. in the R.A.I.C. Journal, xxiii, Jan. 1946, 17)
DAUPHIN, MAN., Ochre River School, District No. 1, 1947 (C.R., lx, Aug. 1947, 260)
WINNIPEG, MAN., Technical & Vocational High School, Wall Street at Notre Dame Avenue, 1947-51 (Winnipeg Daily Tribune, 24 Sept. 1947, 15, illus. & descrip.; 23 July 1948, 11, descrip.; C.R., lx, Nov. 1947, 142; Tim Morawetz, Art Deco Architecture Across Canada, 2017, 107, illus. & descrip., but lacking attribution to Munn)
WINNIPEG, MAN., I.L. Peretz Public School, Aberdeen Avenue, 1949 (C.R., lxii, May 1949, 162)
NEEPAWA, MAN., public school, 1949 (C.R., lxii, May 1949, 158)
PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE, MAN., public school, 1949 (C.R., lxii, July 1949, 134)