Morris, George Rider | Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada

MORRIS, George Rider (1877-1928), active in Vancouver, B.C. from 1910 where he worked as a draftsman and assistant in the office of The Trussed Concrete & Steel Co. of Canada from 1910 to 1914. He later opened his own office in Vancouver in 1920. Born in Welshpool, Co. Montgomeryshire, Wales on 5 October 1877, he trained in the office of Frank H. Shayler, of Shrewsbury, England, from 1894 to 1898. He then worked as an assistant for James R. Wigfull in Sheffield (1900 to 1904), and as assistant to Harry S. Measures in London (1905-06). Morris emigrated to Canada in 1906 and settled in Montreal, Que., and worked in several offices of leading architects there including the office of W.S. Painter (Chief Architect of the CPR), for Edward & W.S. Maxwell, and for Hutchison, Wood & Miller. In 1910 he left Montreal and moved to Vancouver. He served with Canadian Expeditionary Forces in WWI in 1915-18, and after returning to Vancouver he commenced practise under his own name, but only one project by him has been identified, that for a commercial block of stores and apartments on Keefer Street, VANCOUVER, B.C., 1928 (dwgs. At Vancouver City Archives). Morris died in Vancouver on 3 November 1928 (death notice Vancouver Sun, 5 Nov. 1928, 12).