OWEN, Henry Ernest Lloyd (1886-1967) was born at Minffordd, North Wales on 14 August 1886 and articled under Joseph Owen, an architect in Menai Bridge, Engl. He came to Canada c. 1910 as the company architect for the Canadian City & Town Properties Ltd. of Liverpool, England. This development company, with its headquarters in Moose Jaw supervised by Owen, intitiated several C.C. & T.P. projects in Swift Current, Regina, Weyburn, Saskatoon, and Cudworth, Sask., and at Lacombe, Alta. He collaborated with John D. Atchison on the design of the Hammond Block, Main Street North at Fairford Street, MOOSE JAW, SASK., 1912 (Moose Jaw Evening Times, 30 March 1912, 35, illus. & descrip.) and was described as the architect of a new commercial block in SASKATOON, SASK. located opposite the King George Hotel in that city in 1912 (Saskatoon Daily Star, 27 Aug. 1912, 3). He also likely designed the Hughes Block, Main Street North, MOOSE JAW, SASK., 1913 (dwgs. at Moose Jaw City Hall, Jan. 1913). The Gilmour Block, Scarth Street, Regina, also developed by C.C. & T.P. Ltd., is a virtual copy of the Hughes Block in Moose Jaw. From 1913 until 1915 Owen worked in Port Arthur, Ont. as an architect and as local manager of Canadian Resources Development Ltd.
He joined the Canadian Army in 1915 and was later reported as missing in action in France in May 1915 (Building News [London], cviii, 14 May 1915, 556). He had, in fact, been captured by German forces on 25 April 1915 and held as a prisoner of war in Holland for three years and nine months until November 1918. By February 1919 he had returned to Canada and was living and working in Port Arthur, Ontario, but no references to his work there have been found. Owen returned to England in June 1921, and later died at Hastings, Co. Sussex, England in December 1967 (inf. Saskatchewan Association of Architects; inf. Gordon Fulton, Moose Jaw; inf. Frank Korvemaker, Regina)