Swan graduated from the University of Manitoba law school in 1990. After graduating, he practiced law at the firm of Thompson Dorfman Sweatman, becoming a partner in 2000. His speciality was family law. Swan was also appointed to the Residential Tenancies Commission in 2000, and is a member of the Manitoba Running Association.
In late 1928, AndrewSwan Watson announced to the Edinburgh Society of Professional Photographers that due to his state of health, he did not expect to be able to attend many of the ESPP Council Meetings.
Mr Swan Watson was emphatically a photographer of the old school in matters of artistic aim, for he resolutely set his face against the many forms of theatricality in portraiture.
Tribute was also paid to AndrewSwan Watson in the Presidential Address of the Annual Congress of the Professional Photographers' Association in London on 15 May 1930.