Davidson, Ernest Irving | Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada

DAVIDSON, Ernest Irving (1889-1946) of Toronto was born there and educated at Upper Canada College and the University of Toronto where he studied architecture in 1909-10. He worked as draftsman in Winnipeg and Montreal and returned to Toronto in 1914 to form a partnership with J.B. Keith Fisken. The following year he went overseas to serve with the Royal Engineers during WW1 and returned to Toronto in 1920 to open an office under his own name. Davidson moved to Detroit in 1925 and became a partner in the firm of Bingman & Davidson, remaining there until 1933 when he once again returned to Toronto to manage the industrial engineering office of Thomas Pringle & Son where he supervised the design of several industrial plants for that company. One of his last works was the office and factory for Sully Brass Foundry Ltd., Lake Shore Road in Long Branch, TORONTO, ONT. (C.R., xviii, March 1945, 172). He died in Toronto on 7 June 1946 (obituary in the Globe & Mail [Toronto], 10 June 1946, 8; Toronto Star, 10 June 1946, 30; inf. from Ontario Assoc. of Architects)