KEAGEY, James William (1878-1956), of Vancouver, B.C., was a native of Dundas, Ontario, born there on 29 April 1878 and he later studied architecture at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia where he graduated in 1904 (General Alumni Catalogue of the University of Pennsylvania, 1917, 216). He began his career in Dundas in 1908, but by late 1909 he had moved to Vancouver, B.C. and shortly after he was awarded First Premium in a competition for the new Clubhouse of the Vancouver Rowing Club in Stanley Park, built 1911 and still standing as of 2018. He also took an active interest in the development of the architectural profession, and he was one of ten architects in Vancouver who founded the fledgling Architectural Institute of British Columbia, which was later incorporated in 1920 (Donald Luxton, "Taming The West - The Thirty Year Struggle to Regulate the Architectural Profession in British Columbia" in the Journal of the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada, xxiii, No. 4, 1998, 116). Keagey appears to have returned to Ontario after 1920, and he later died in his home town of Dundas, Ont. on 5 October 1956, and was buried at Grove Cemetery in Dundas (obituary, Hamilton Spectator, 6 October 1956, 8; biog. D. Luxton, Building The West - The Early Architects of British Columbia, 2003, 471, 507).
(works in Ontario)
DUNDAS, ONT., Aged Women's Home, 1908 ( (C.R., xxii, 29 July 1908, 24)
(works in Vancouver unless noted)
McCLARY MFR. CO. LTD, Hamilton Street at Nelson Street, warehouse, 1910-11 (City of Vancouver b.p. 22 Nov. 1910)
VANCOUVER ROWING CLUB HOUSE, Park Drive, Stanley Park (Vancouver Daily World, 19 April 1911, 12, descrip.; Province [Vancouver], 19 April 1911, 10; H. Kalman, Exploring Vancouver, 1993, 116, illus.)
WEST 2nd AVENUE, near Trafalgar Street, residence for the architect, 1911 (City of Vancouver b.p. 30 May 1911)
KITSILANO, residence for Dr. Gordon C. Draeseke, Point Grey Road near Bayswater Street, 1912 (City of Vancouver b.p. 2189, 27 April 1912)
MAPLE LEAF LIQUOR CO. LTD., Granville Street, between Robson Street and Smythe Street, retail store and offices for Powers & Boughton, 1913 (City of Vancouver b.p. 4133, 4 Jan. 1913; Vancouver Daily World, 11 Jan. 1913, 11; dwgs. Vancouver City Archives)
POINT GREY, residence for Alex D. Wilson, West 39th Avenue near Carnarvon Street, 1913 (Point Grey b.p. 670, 2 April 1913)
POINT GREY, residence for William More, West 39th Avenue near Carnarvon Street, 1913 (Point Grey b.p. 828, 27 May 1913)
POINT GREY, residence for Thomas E. Ladner, King Edward Avenue at Granville Street, 1913 (Point Grey b.p. 1041, 2 Sept. 1913)
POINT GREY, residence for John A. Martin, West 36th Avenue at Maple Street, 1913 (Point Grey b.p. 1072, 17 Sept. 1913)
COMPETITIONS
VANCOUVER, B.C., Civic Centre, 1914. In late 1914 both and Robert M. Fripp joined forces to submit an entry in the international competition for the Vancouver Civic Centre (C.R., xxix, 6 Jan. 1915, 8) but their scheme was not among the finalists. The winner was Theodore Korner, working with Robert Mattocks.