CHIVERS, Cyril William Upton (1879-1969), a native of Avebury, Wiltshire, England was born on 11 April 1879 and studied drafting at the London Polytechnic Institute. He was brought to Manitoba by his family in 1897 and obtained a position as assistant in the Winnipeg office of S. Frank Peters. The following year he joined George C. Browne, and in 1901 became a draftsman in the Engineering Construction Dept. of the Canadian Pacific Railway. His work for the C.P.R. included the design of the railway station at LAGGAN, B.C., c. 1905. In 1908, while still employed by the C.P.R., he became associated with G.W. Northwood (of Northwood & Noffke), then opened his own office in Winnipeg in 1909. After serving with the First Canadian Mounted Rifles in Europe during WWI Chivers returned to Winnipeg in 1919 to resume his practice and complete the work on the elaborate mansion for Lt. Col. R.M. Thompson which he had begun in 1913. He continued to practice under his own name until 1924 when he and his former employer, G.W. Northwood, formed a new partnership (see list of works under Northwood & Chivers). Their collaboration was both successful and productive, with Chivers handling much of the design work of the firm and Northwood overseeing business management and seeking out clients. Their practice remained active until after 1950. Chivers was nominated on two separate occasions as President of the Manitoba Association of Architects, first in 1928, and again in 1940. He wrote frequently on historic and contemporary architecture; one of his essays on 'The Domestic Architecture in Manitoba' appeared in the R.A.I.C. Journal, v, Sept. 1928, 323-39, illus. Chivers died in Winnipeg on 9 August 1969 (obit. Free Press [Winnipeg], 11 Aug. 1969, 29; biog. in Who's Who & Why in Canada, v, 1914, 205; Winnipeg Saturday Post, 8 June 1912; inf. John A. Chivers, Winnipeg)
DORCHESTER APARTMENTS, Lilac Street at Dorchester Avenue, 1910 (Winnipeg b.p. 669, 15 April 1910)
WELLINGTON APARTMENTS, Wellington Crescent, 1910 (Winnipeg. b.p. 1026, 1910)
WINNIPEG CANOE CLUB, River Park Close, 1910 (Winnipeg b.p. 1454, 1910)
SUFFOLK STREET, residence in Elm Park for Harold F. Harman, 1911 (Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 27 May 1911, 13, illus.)
HICKS CONSTRUCTION CO., Corydon Avenue, garage, 1912 (Winnipeg b.p. 709, 1912)
EAST GATE, residence for George R. Crowe, c. 1912 (list of works in Who's Who & Why in Canada, 1914, 205)
WILMOT PLACE SOUTH, residence for Richard R. Dobell, c. 1912 (list of works in Who's Who & Why in Canada, 1914, 205)
KENNEDY STREET, residence for Alex Reid, c. 1912 (list of works in Who's Who & Why in Canada, 1914, 205)
HUGO APARTMENTS, Wellington Crescent opposite Hugo Street, 1912-13 (Winnipeg b.p. 1458, 17 May 1912; Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 29 March 1913, 11, illus.)
CORYDON AVENUE, at Wentworth Street, stores and apartments for William Moxam, 1912 (Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 1 June 1912, 13)
NINETTE, MAN., infirmary building and cottages at the Ninette Sanatorium, 1912 (Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 1 June 1912, 13, descrip.)
CUMBERLAND BLOCK, Cumberland Avenue at Hargrave Street, commercial block for Notre Dame Investments, 1912 (Winnipeg. b.p. 2792, 1912; list of works in Who's Who & Why in Canada, 1914, 205)
CRESCENT GROVE APARTMENTS, Grosvenor Avenue near Lilac Street, 1912 (Winnipeg b.p. 2838, 27 July 1912)
WEST GATE, near Middle Gate, residence for Mrs. Emily Helen Gemmill, 1913 (Heritage Winnipeg Corp., Armstrong's Point: A History, by Randy Rostecki, 2009; inf. Scott Edwards, Toronto)
ASSINIBOINE AVENUE, residence for Mrs. J.H. Guenell, 1913 (C.R., xxvii, 3 Sept. 1913, 74)
SOUTH DRIVE, mansion for Lt. Col. Robert M. Thomson, begun 1913; completed 1919 and now part of St. John's Ravenscourt School (C.R., xxvii, 8 Oct. 1913, 72; Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 23 May 1914, 12, illus. & descrip.)
GORDON BELL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL, Wolseley Avenue at Maryland Street, 1925-26 (Const., xviii, June 1925, 206; Winnipeg Daily Tribune, 10 Sept. 1925, 2, illus. & descrip.; 13 May 1926, 9, descrip.; R.A.I.C. Journal, iv, Nov. 1927, 407-08, 411-12, illus.)
PARK BOULEVARD, residence for Allan Morrison, c. 1925 (Const., xix, Sept. 1926, 290-1, illus.)
PARK BOULEVARD, residence for William A. Smith, c. 1925 (Const., xix, Sept. 1926, 291, illus.)