DAY, Harry Daborn (1873-1965) was born in Leatherhead, Surrey, Engl. on 28 June 1873 and articled to Samuel Welman of Godalming in 1890-94. He moved to London and assisted in the offices of Saviell & Martin (in 1897) and with Still & Wheat (in 1898). From 1899 until 1911 he practised on his own account in Godalming, then emigrated to Canada and settled at Victoria, B.C. where he was employed as assistant to F.M. Rattenbury and to L.W. Hargreaves in 1911-12. He returned to England and was active there in 1916-22, then moved back to Victoria in early 1923. He also practiced under his own name, devoting much of his time to unpretentious designs for private houses in a plain Edwardian or Tudor revival style. In 1929 he was an assistant to Percy Fox. Day died in Victoria on 14 October 1965 (death notice Daily Colonist [Victoria], 16 Oct. 1965, 25; inf. Architectural Inst. of British Columbia; R.I.B.A., London). The University of Victoria Library holds a small collection of drawings by H.D. Day for domestic commissions as well as examples of his student work (biog. R.I.B.A., Directory of British Architects 1834-1914, 2001, i, 517; D. Luxton, Building the West: The Early Architects of British Columbia, 2003, 460, 497).
SAANICH, B.C., residence for H.D. Day, architect, Tattersall Drive, 1922 (Donald Luxton & Jennifer Barr, Saanich Heritage Structures, 2008, 113, illus. & descrip.)
SAANICH, B.C., residence for Harry Curry, Tattersall Drive, 1936 (Donald Luxton & Jennifer Barr, Saanich Heritage Structures, 2008, 114, illus. & descrip.)