Architectural historian.
He worked for the Historic Resources Branch of the Manitoba government until retirement in August 2015. He is a co-author of the book If Walls Could Talk: Manitoba’s Best Buildings Explored and Explained (2000).
Some of his reports for the Branch included:
Railway Stations of Manitoba: A Building Inventory by Patricia Trainor, Farhad Rahbary, and David Butterfield, 1984 (reprinted 1987), 233 pages, (PDF format)
A Study of Public School Buildings in Manitoba by David Butterfield, 1994, 230 pages (PDF format)
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