CAWSTON, John Alexander (1911-1966), active in Calgary where he was a partner in the following firms:
Stevenson, Cawston & Stevenson, Calgary, 1947-49
Stevenson, Cawston & Dewar, Calgary, 1949-51
J.A. Cawston, Calgary, 1951-56
J.A. Cawston & Associates, Calgary, 1956-67
Cawston was born in Calgary and graduated from the Dept. of Architecture at the University of Alberta in 1935. After serving with the RCAF during WWII he formed a partnership with James M. Stevenson and John Stevenson (see list of works under Stevenson, Cawston & Stevenson). With them he designed important Calgary landmarks such as the Greyhound Bus Lines Administration Building (1946) and Barron Building (1949-51). In 1951 he formed his own firm of J.A. Cawston & Associates and completed the Brown Building, a distinctive modernist work in Alberta (R.A.I.C. Journal, xxx, Feb. 1953, 46, illus.). Cawston served a term as President of the Albert Assoc. of Architects in 1962 and died in Calgary on 21 November 1966 (obit. and port. Calgary Herald, 22 Nov. 1966, 21; R.A.I.C. Journal, xliv, Jan. 1967, 5)