David Webster (architect)

David Webster (1885–1952) was a Scottish-Canadian architect best known for his designs of elementary schools in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.

[1] Along with other local architects of his era, such as Walter LaChance and Storey and Van Egmond, Webster prospered during the province’s 1912 economic boom which sparked a frenzy of new construction.

Murray, J. McDiarmid and Co., the Winnipeg office of Sprote, Rolph and Chrysler, and lastly, Herbert B.

[2] Webster played a key role in founding the Saskatchewan Association of Architects in 1911, and held membership card #1.

[2] The firm would go on to design such buildings as Royal University Hospital, the 1956 wing of Saskatoon's city hall, the Livestock Pavilion and Jubilee Buildings at the Saskatoon Exhibition Grounds, and elementary schools such as Churchill, Holliston, and the original Brunskill School.