HARDIE, David (1882-1959) lived and worked in Edmonton, Alberta from 1912 to 1924, and completed several commercial, residential and ecclesiastical commissions in that city. Born in Glasgow on 11 October 1882, he was a pupil of David Smart (1824-1914), a leading architect in nearby Perth, Scotland, and trained under him from September 1898 until 1905. Hardie emigrated to Canada in 1906, but no information has been found on his activity during the period from 1906 to 1911. By 1912 he had moved to Edmonton and opened an office under his own name as “architect & structural engineer” (Edmonton City Directory, 1912, 436).
In 1913 he invited John Martland to join him in a new partnership in Edmonton. Their collaboration appears to have ended in 1916, and the following year, Hardie was recorded as a draftsman in the office of the Edmonton, Dunvegan & B.C. Railway Co. He became a member of the Alberta Association of Architects on 26 January 1920, and remained in Edmonton until 1923. In 1924 Hardie moved to Vancouver, B.C. to continue his career, and applied for membership in the Architectural Institute of British Columbia in 1927. From there, he obtained a major commission from the Woodward family of Vancouver to design the new Woodward's Department Store in Edmonton in 1926. This retail store appears to have been a major commercial success, and within three years Hardie had again been asked to prepare plans for large additions to this retail complex in 1929 and in 1931-32. Hardie remained active in Vancouver until after 1940, and later died there on 7 November 1959 (British Columbia - Vital Statistics - Registration of Death No. 59- 09-012592; inf. from Architectural Inst. of British Columbia).
(works in Edmonton)
D. HARDIE
ARMSTRONG BROTHERS LTD., 104th Street, a 4 storey commercial block, 1912 (Edmonton Daily Bulletin, 21 Feb. 1912, 12, descrip.; City of Edmonton, Historical Walking Tours of Downtown Edmonton, 1988, 32, illus.)
103 STREET, residence for John C. McDougall, 1912 (inf. Donald Luxton, Vancouver)
STRATHCONA, The Strathcona Apartments, 81st Avenue at 105th Street, 1912 (inf. Donald Luxton, Vancouver)
CONNEL & SPENCER CONST. LTD., Jasper Avenue West, office building for John H. Miller, 1913 (C.R., xxvii, 19 March 1913, 76)
ALBERTA BLOCK, Jasper Avenue, alterations, 1913 (City of Edmonton b.p. 468, 1913; dwgs. At Edmonton City Archives)
HARDIE & MARTLAND
SACRED HEART ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH, Kinistino Avenue at 108 A Avenue, 1913 (C.R., xxvii, 30 July 1913, 68; Edmonton Daily Bulletin, 17 Jan. 1914, 6, illus.)
HOUSE OF ISRAEL SYNAGOGUE, Syndicate Avenue at Grierson Street, c. 1914 (A.I.B.C., Application for Membership by David Hardie, 1927, list of works in Edmonton)
TREMONT APARTMENTS, Syndicate Avenue at 101 A Avenue, c. 1914 ((A.I.B.C., Application for Membership by David Hardie, 1927, list of works in Edmonton)
ALEXANDRA BLOCK, Howard Avenue, c. 1914 (A.I.B.C., Application for Membership by David Hardie, 1927, list of works in Edmonton)
POMERLEAU BLOCK, 6th AVENUE, stores and offices for Joseph N. Pomerleau, 1914 (C.R., xxviii, 5 Aug. 1914, 80)
17th STREET, apartment block for F. Crook, 1914 (C.R., xxviii, 30 Sept. 1914, 64)
EMPIRE BLOCK, Jasper Avenue, renovations, 1914 (City of Edmonton b.p. 28, 1914; dwgs. at Edmonton City Archives)
SONS OF ENGLAND HALL, Main Street, 1914 (City of Edmonton b.p. 139, 1914; dwgs. at Edmonton City Archives)
HECLA BLOCK, 95th Street, 1914 (City of Edmonton b.p. 701, 1914; dwgs. at Edmonton City Archives)
D. HARDIE
GRANITE CURLING CLUB, 86th Avenue, 1920 (City of Edmonton b.p. 269, 1920; dwgs. at Edmonton City Archives)
VANCOUVER, B.C., Vancouver General Hospital, addition of a new Infectious Diseases block, Willow Street, 1925 (dwgs. at Vancouver City Archives)
EDMONTON, ALTA., Woodward’s Department Store, 101 Street at 102nd Avenue, 1926, with major addition, 1929; with another large three storey addition, 1931-32 (City of Edmonton b.p. 370, 2 July 1926; Edmonton Bulletin, 13 Oct. 1926, 6, illus. & descrip., but lacking attribution; C.R., xliii, 13 Feb. 1929, 54; xlv, 25 Feb. 1931, 160; xlvi, 20 April 1932, 60; inf. Sam Boisvert, D. Luxton & Assoc., Vancouver)