Chief Dominion Architect

Chief Dominion Architect was a position created in 1871 by the Government of Canada to help design public federal buildings across Canada. The role reported to the Minister of Public Works.
From World War II onwards to 1973 the role was diminished with work being contracted out to third parties and finally replaced with a bureaucrat responsible for finding external architects instead.

List of Architects

Thomas Seaton Scott 1872–1881
Thomas Fuller 1881–1896
David Ewart 1896–1914
Edgar Lewis Horwood 1915–1917
Richard Cotsman Wright 1918–1927
Thomas W. Fuller 1927–1936
Charles D. Sutherland 1936–1947
Joseph Charles Gustave Brault 1947–1952
Edwin Alexander Gardner 1952–1963
James Alfred Langford 1963–1975

Frederick Preston Rubidge was a lead government architect for many projects prior to the formation of the title, first for the Province of Canada beginning in 1841, then with the federal Department of Public Works from 1867 to 1872.