DeGuerre, Frederic Claude | Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada

DeGUERRE, Frederic Claude ( -1918), an engineer who collaborated with Robert Matheson on the design of the First Church of Christ Scientist, West Georgia Street near Thurlow Street, VANCOUVER, B.C., 1918-19. Born in Galt, Ont., he studied engineering at the University of Toronto and graduated from the Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering in 1911. He moved to British Columbia in 1912 and worked for a brief period as assistant to the City Engineer in North Vancouver., and later joined the engineering staff of the Granby Consolidated Mining, Smelting & Power Co. In early 1918 DuGerre assisted Matheson in preparing drawings for the design and construction of the First Church of Christ Scientist, but he died unexpectedly on 13 October 1918 from the influenza epidemic that swept Western Canada, leaving Matheson to complete the commission for the church that later opened in March 1919 (obituary Contract Record [Toronto], xxxii, 13 Nov. 1918, 913).