Chadwick, Bryan Damer Seymour | Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada

CHADWICK, Bryan Damer Seymour (1888-1965), the younger brother of W.C. Vaux Chadwick, was born in Toronto on 24 June 1888 but had no formal education in architecture. Much of his knowledge of design and building was acquired from his training in his brother's office of Chadwick & Beckett where he was employed as a draftsman from 1909 to 1916. When his brother went overseas during WW1 in July 1915, Bryan continued to operate the Toronto office and he alone can be credited with the design of St. Edmund's Anglican Church, Dovercourt Road at Davenport Road, TORONTO, ONT., 1916 (Const., ix, June 1916, 212). After the death of Beckett in 1917 Bryan worked briefly for Hynes, Feldman & Watson, then rejoined his older brother in his office in July 1919, and they entered a formal partnership in 1924 (see list of works under Vaux & Bryan Chadwick). Their firm was active until 1940. Bryan Chadwick died in Toronto on 22 May 1965 (death notice Globe & Mail, 25 May 1965, 42; inf. Ontario Assoc. of Architects).