MENZIES, Allan (1887-1983), was born in Forres, Scotland on 15 April 1887 and articled for five years with the firm of Ross & MacBeth, Architects of Inverness (in 1904-09). He emigrated to Canada in 1910 and settled in Vancouver, B.C. where he was employed as a draftsman for various offices there and studied architecture and construction at night school. He opened an office under his own name in March 1915 but joined the Canadian Artillery in 1916 and spent two years in France during WW1. After returning to Vancouver he worked briefly for William F. Jones (in 1919-20) and then re-opened his office in 1921, completing commissions for factories, schools and housing. He resigned from the AIBC in 1973, and later died in Vancouver on 26 May 1983 (biog. R. Liscombe, The New Spirit: Modern Architecture in Vancouver 1938-1963, 1997, 203-04; inf. Architectural Inst. of British Columbia)
QUILCHENA GOLF CLUB, West 29th Street near East Boulevard, 1929 (dwgs. Vancouver City Archives)
ALLISON ROAD, residence for E.R. Boyce, 1949 (J. Bond, University Endowment Lands Architecture 1940-1969, 1993, 19, illus. & descrip.)
FAIRVIEW BAPTIST CHURCH, West 16th Street at Pine Street, 1949 (dwgs. Vancouver City Archives)
KNOX ROAD, residence for H. Lauer, 1950 (J. Bond, University Endowment Lands Architecture 1940-1969, 1993, 23, illus. & descrip.)
NORTH WEST MARINE DRIVE, residence for G. Horrie, 1952 (J. Bond, University Endowment Lands Architecture 1940-1969, 1993, 32, illus. & descrip.)
WYCLIFFE ROAD, residence for the Commonweath Building Co., 1952 (J. Bond, University Endowment Lands Architecture 1940-1969, 1993, 33, illus. & descrip.)
COLLEGE HIGHROAD, residence for S. Buzzell, 1953 (J. Bond, University Endowment Lands Architecture 1940-1969, 1993, 34, illus. & descrip.)
COLLINGWOOD UNITED CHURCH, Joyce Road, 1956 (dwgs. Vancouver City Archives)