Boughen, Edmund J.

BOUGHEN, Edmund John (1874-1967) of London, England, came to Canada after 1900. He was active in New Westminster, B.C. from 1911 onward, and designed several commercial and residential worksthere . He moved to Vancouver after WW1 where he maintained a practice in 1922-25. He appears to have abandoned the profession from 1925 until 1945 as his name is absent from membership records of the Architectural Inst. of British Columbia during this period. His name reappears as an architect in 1946. The Vancouver City Archives holds several sets of signed drawings prepared by Boughen from 1946 to 1950 (D. Luxton, Building The West: The Early Architects of British Columbia, 2003, 455, 493). Boughen died at Coquitlam, B.C. on 30 October 1967.

NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C., residence for Dr. P. MacSween, Eighth Avenue East, 1912 (J.D. Scott, Once in the Royal City: The Heritage of New Westminster, 1985, 111, illus.)
NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C., residence for William Furness, Tenth Street, 1913 (J.D. Scott, Once in the Royal City: The Heritage of New Westminster, 1985, 111, illus.)
NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C., residence for the architect, Fourth Avenue, 1913 (British Columbian [New Westminster], 30 July 1913, 3, illus.)
VANCOUVER, B.C., Grandview Oddfellows Hall, Gravely Street, 1922 (dwgs. at Vancouver City Archives)
CHILLIWACK, B.C., St. Mary's Roman Catholic School, Mary Street, 1947 (Chilliwack Progress, 2 April 1947, 1)
VANCOUVER, B.C., chapel for the Roman Catholic Archbishop, West 33rd Avenue, 1950-51; demol. (dwgs. Vancouver City Archives)