BEESLEY, Percy Montagu (1875-1927) arrived in Moose Jaw, Sask. in July 1899 after spending a term as a staff architect in the Canadian Pacific Railway Co. offices in Montreal (Moose Jaw Times, 4 Aug. 1899, 4 & 8). A native of Warrington, Co. Lancashire, England, he likely received his education and training in England before emigrating to Canada. In Moose Jaw, he prepared the plans for the Methodist Church '"....n the early English style of architecture" but by June 1900 he had relocated to Vancouver, B.C. where he practiced for two years (British Columbia Directory for 1900-01, 1178). In 1902 he left Canada and moved to Shanghai, China where he continued to practise architecture for the next twenty-five years. He died in Shanghai on 26 January 1927 (obituary South China Morning Post [Hong Kong], 4 Feb. 1927, 11).
MOOSE JAW, SASK. Methodist Church, High Street East at 1st Street N.E., 1899-1900 (Moose Jaw Times, 8 Sept. 1899, 1, descrip.; C.A.B., xii, Nov. 1899, illus. plate)
VANCOUVER, B.C., several residences and cottages on the English Bay estate of Mr. Simpson, 1900 (C.R., xi, 13 June 1900, 2)
VANCOUVER, B.C., residence for Joseph Marsden, Alberni Street, 1900 (C.R., xi, 13 June 1900, 2)
VANCOUVER, B.C., pair of houses for Samuel Harris, Robson Street at Denman Street, 1900 (C.R., xi, 13 June 1900, 2)