ALEXANDER, John Thomas (1875-1945), practised in Vancouver, B.C. from 1909 until after 1931. Born at Tynemouth, England on 7 October 1875 he was educated in that country and commenced an apprenticeship in 1892 with G.A.T. Middleton and then with Henry Gibson, both of whom were architects active in London at the turn of the century. He arrived in Vancouver in 1908 and executed several Tudor style ecclesiastical works under his own name and in collaboration with Percival H.E. Brown in 1912-14. After 1920 he worked for brief periods in the offices of Bowman & Cullerne, A.E. Henderson, and H.H. Gillingham in Vancouver. He died in Vancouver on 4 June 1945 (death notice The Sun [Vancouver], 6 June 1945, 17; D. Luxton, Building The West: The Early Architects of British Columbia, 2003, 451, 491; inf. Architectural Institute of British Columbia).
(works in Vancouver unless noted)
ST PETER'S MOUNTAIN VIEW ANGLICAN CHURCH, Westminster Avenue, 1908 (Vancouver Daily World, 27 Oct. 1908, 20, descrip.; St. Peter's Mountain View, Vancouver, B.C. 1907-1967, 6, illus.)
(with P.H.E. Brown) ST. JAMES ANGLICAN CHURCH, Pender Street East at Carl Avenue,, 1911 (C.R., xxv, 26 April 1911, 54)
(with P.H.E. Brown) NORTH VANCOUVER, St. Andrews Presbyterian Church, 10th Street East at St. George's Avenue, North Vancouver, 1912; still standing in 2022 (The Express [North Vancouver], 22 December 1911, 1, illus. & detailed descrip.; and 23 April 1912, 7, descrip.; C.R., xxvi, 6 March 1912, 66; H. Kalman, Exploring Vancouver, 1993, 227, illus.)
(with P.H.E. Brown) GRANVILLE STREET, at Marpole Avenue, residence for Dr. W.D. Brydone-Jack, in Shaughnessy Heights, 1912 (Sun [Vancouver], 8 July 1912, 14, illus. & descrip.; C.R., xxvi, 7 Aug. 1912, illus. & descrip.)
BANFF, ALBERTA, a large four storey extension of 100 rooms to the Banff Springs Hotel, for the Canadian Pacific Railway, 1926 (Calgary Herald, 7 Nov. 1925, 23, illus. & descrip.; Canadian Railway & Marine World, xxix, March 1926, 119, illus. & descrip.; inf. Robert Hamilton, of Hamilton, Ont.)
ALMA COURT APARTMENTS, Alma Street at 6th Avenue West, 1931 (dwgs. at Vancouver City Archives)