Brown, John Graham | Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada

BROWN, John Graham (1860-1937) was born in Glasgow, Scotland on 17 July 1860 and studied architecture and construction at the Glasgow Technical School. He emigrated to Manitoba in 1882 and worked in the building trades in Winnipeg before moving to Victoria, B.C. in 1888. There, he worked as a contractor until 1900 when he received the appointment of Assistant Resident Architect with the federal Dept. of Public Works. In 1924 he succeeded William Henderson as District Resident Architect, holding responsibility for supervising the the day-to-day construction of all federal buildings in the province. Brown retired from the post in March 1931 and died in Victoria on 6 February 1937 (obit. and port. Victoria Daily Times, 6 Feb. 1937, 2; Daily Colonist [Victoria], 7 Feb. 1937, 2; biog. E.O.S. Scholefield, History of British Columbia, iv, 1914, 790-1; D. Luxton, Building the West: The Early Architects of British Columbia, 2003, 456, 494; inf. Architectural Inst. of British Columbia).