JONES, Morley Oscar (1869-1956) was born at Cannington, Ont. on 17 November 1869 and was employed by his father for seven years 'in the study of construction'. He attended the Toronto Technical School for two years after 1890 and moved to Winnipeg where he was employed as a draftsman in the office of Frank Evans in 1902 and 1903. He worked briefly as an assistant to Samuel Hooper, the Provincial Architect in Manitoba, and opened an office under his own name in Winnipeg in late 1905. Jones moved to Vancouver in early 1907 and formed a partnership with Norman E. Symonds, as Jones & Symonds (in 1908-09), and later with George Aspell with whom he specialized in the design of elaborate residences for wealthy clients in the Shaughnessy Heights neighbourhood. In 1914 their partnership was terminated and Jones joined the staff of Junkin & Co. in Vancouver to assist with construction of Pier D for the Canadian Pacific Railway. After 1920 he worked as an architect and construction engineer but by 1930 he appears to have abandoned the profession. He died at Vancouver on 17 April 1956 (obituary in the Province [Vancouver], 20 April 1956, 10; D. Luxton, Building the West: The Early Architects of British Columbia, 2003, 470, 507; inf. Architectural Institute of British Columbia, Vancouver)
JONES & ASPELL
(works in Vancouver unless noted)
WEST 11TH AVENUE, near Alder Street, residence for Harry A. Edgett, 1910 (C.R., xxiv, 27 April 1910, 29)
WEST 12TH AVENUE, near Birch Street, residence for Clarence H. Gross, c. 1910 (A.I.B.C., list of works)
SHAUGHNESSY HEIGHTS, residence for Peter Wallace, Osler Street near Matthews Avenue, c. 1910 (A.I.B.C., list of works)
NORTH VANCOUVER, B.C., Roman Catholic School, Mahon Avenue, 1911 (Province [Vancouver], 27 March 1911, 9, illus.)
SHAUGHNESSY HEIGHTS, large residence for Herbert W. Baker, Selkirk Avenue near Matthews Avenue, 1912, and later occupied by Alex R. Mann in 1914 (Province [Vancouver], 13 July 1912, 18; The Sun [Vancouver], 23 July 1912, 3; Saturday Sunset [Vancouver], 14 Feb. 1914, 18, illus. & detailed descrip.)
SHAUGHNESSY HEIGHTS, large residence for Mrs. W. Edward Emmons, Matthews Avenue near Selkirk Avenue, 1912 (Saturday Sunset [Vancouver], 11 April 1914, 18, illus. & detailed descrip.)
SHAUGHNESSY HEIGHTS, residence for Peter Lamont, Selkirk Street near Balfour Avenue, c. 1912 (Saturday Sunset [Vancouver], 6 June 1914, 16, illus. & detailed descrip.; A.I.B.C., list of works)
SHAUGHNESSY HEIGHTS, residence for Malcolm McBeath, Osler Street near Balfour Avenue, 1912 (Province [Vancouver], 13 July 1912, 18; The Sun [Vancouver], 23 July 1912, 3)
SHAUGHNESSY HEIGHTS, residence for George E. McCrossan, Angus Drive at Granville Street, 1912 (Province [Vancouver], 13 July 1912, 18)
SHAUGHNESSY HEIGHTS, residence for Thomas McCrossan, Granville Street at Laurier Avenue, 1912 (Province [Vancouver], 10 Aug. 1912, 22)
CRANBROOK, B.C., Roman Catholic Separate School, Norbury Avenue, 1913 (Cranbrook Prospector, 30 Aug. 1913, 1, descrip.)
YUKON STREET, at West 12th Avenue, residence for Truman S. Baxter, 1913 (A.I.B.C., list of works)
MORLEY O. JONES
WEST 38TH AVENUE, near West Boulevard, residence for Gardner S. Eldridge, c. 1914 (A.I.B.C., list of works)
(with George Southwell) WESTERDALE APARTMENTS, Victoria Drive, near Georgia Street, 1923 (dwgs. at Vancouver City Archives)
WEST POINT GREY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, West 12th Avenue, 1929 (dwgs. at Vancouver City Archives)
COMPETITIONS
SIMON FRASER PUBLIC SCHOOL, West 16th Avenue, 1908. Jones was one of 19 competitors who sent in designs for this new school building, but he was not one of the finalists. The First Prize was awarded to Pearce & Hope (Vancouver Daily World, 9 April 1908, 10; 12 May 1908, 10)