CRESSWELL, Henry John (1848 - 1918) active in Victoria, B.C. in 1889-90, and later in Delta, B.C. from 1903 until c. 1911. Born in Louth, Co. Lincolnshire, England, on 10 December 1848, he was educated and trained in England and in 1881 he was recorded as an architect residing at Cheetham, Co. Lancashire. He emigrated to Canada in 1888 and settled in Victoria, B.C. (Williams British Columbia Directory, 1889, 561; Henderson’s British Columbia Directory, 1890, 604). He then moved to the B.C. mainland in 1890 or 1891 and maintained an office as an architect in Ladner, B.C. from c. 1901 to 1912, and he was recorded as designing a small number of institutional, ecclesiastical and residential works in that town. No information has been found on his activity after 1912. Cresswell died in the Delta area in March 1918 (biog. and list of works in D. Luxton, Building The West - The Early Architects of British Columbia, 2003, 458-59, 496)
LADNER, B.C., Oddfellow’s Hall, Delta Street at Trenant Street, 1903-04 (Delta Times [Ladner], 30 Jan. 1904, 1 & 3, descrip.)
LADNER, B.C., vicarage (or residence) for All Saints Anglican Church, Trenant Street, 1904 (Delta Times [Ladner], 2 April 1904, 4, t.c.)
LADNER, B.C., Reagh Shoe Store, 1905 (dwgs. at Delta Museum & Archives, Delta, B.C.)
TSAWWASSEN, B.C., layout and plan for a new portion of Boundary Bay Cemetery, 1908 (Delta Times [Ladner], 14 July 1908, 1)
LADNER, B.C., Baptist Church, for Rev. C.R. Blunden, 1912 (Delta Times [Ladner], 12 Oct. 1912, 3)