Samuel Herbert Maw | |
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 Maw in 1936 | |
| Born | September 12, 1881 Needham Market, Suffolk, England |
| Died | August 19, 1952 (aged 70) |
| Nationality | British, Canadian |
| Occupation(s) | Architect, delineator, cartographer |
| Known for | The City of Quebec (1932) La Cité de Montréal (1942) |
| Notable work | Toronto Stock Exchange St. Philip's Church (Montreal-West) |
Samuel Herbert Maw (September 12, 1881 – August 19, 1952) was a British-Canadian architect, delineator and cartographer.
Born in the English county of Suffolk, he learned architecture in England and found success there as a delineator before emigrating to Canada in 1912. In Toronto, he worked for Darling & Pearson, a leading architectural firm, until 1918. During that time, he also worked on his own designs. In 1923, Maw moved to Montreal, where he collaborated with Philip J. Turner on St. Phillip's Anglican Church in Montreal West. In 1937, while back in Toronto, he worked on the design of the then Toronto Stock Exchange (now home to the Design Exchange), a notable Art Deco building of North America.
Besides his architectural work, Maw found success as a cartographer, starting in 1929 when he published a pictorial map of the St. Lawrence Estuary. In 1932, he published The City of Quebec, an intricate hand-drawn map of Quebec City with historical notes. It was reproduced thousands of times and led him to be commissioned to draw This Is Canada, a booklet of maps to commemorate the 1939 royal tour of Canada by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. The original folio was gifted to the king by prime minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. In 1942, the tercentenary of Montreal, he published La Cité de Montréal, a map of the city in the style of The City of Quebec. In 1952, Maw died in Toronto at the age of 70.