Robert Findlay
Robert Findlay was a Scottish-born Canadian architect. He was born in Inverness, Scotland, and moved to Montreal in 1885. He won the competition to expand the :fr:Vieux Sun Life|first Sun Life Building and was the architect for that project, which he began in 1890. The Sun Life company left that building for the current Sun Life Building in 1913.Career
Findlay cultivated an extensive practice, working in later years with his son, Frank. He designed several mansions in the Golden Square Mile and a number of other large private houses in Westmount, as well as Westmount City Hall. His private clients included four members of the Molson family, Robert Wilson Reford, F.E. Meredith, Charles Meredith, J.K.L. Ross, Sir Edward Beatty, Charles Francis Smithers, A.A. Bronfman and Sir Mortimer Davis.
Many of the Golden Square Mile homes that he designed were later purchased by McGill University, including the Sir Mortimer Davis House. Findlay designed the Calvary Congregational Church in Westmount, located at the intersection of Greene Street and Dorchester Boulevard. He also designed the base for Montreal's Lion of Belfort monument in Dorchester Square.
Findlay was responsible for the design of Mull Hall on Lakeshore Road, later known as Stewart Hall, and for the Alice Graham Hallward House at 3605 Mountain Street, known from 1971 to 2004 as McGill's Martlet House.Gallery
