PROCTOR, Grove [or Grover] Lyman (1885-1975) first appears in Prince Rupert, B.C. in 1909 and was recorded as an architect living and working there until 1914. Born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on 13 August 1885, he may have been educated there, but no information has been found on his training. He was recorded in Henderson’s Prince Rupert City Directory in 1913, p. 120, as “Grove L. Proctor, Architect” and his name can be linked to several ecclesiastical, commercial and institutional projects erected in the boom period in Prince Rupert before WWI. He left the city after 1914, and moved south to California. He may be the same “Grover Lyman Proctor” who died in Riverside County, Calif. on 30 April 1975, and was later buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery at Hollywood Hills (biog. D. Luxton, Building The West, 2003, 481, 515).
(works in Prince Rupert)
KELLY, DOUGLAS CO., First Avenue, on the waterfront, a large four storey wholesale grocery warehouse, 1910 (Prince Rupert Optimist, 19 May 1910, 1, descrip.; 21 Dec. 1910, 3, descrip.)
SECOND AVENUE, near 7th Street, residence for Peter W. Anderson, 1910 (Prince Rupert Optimist, 16 Nov. 1910, 4)
STEWART & MOBLEY CO., and J. PIERCY MORRIS & CO., a large 4 storey double warehouse shared by both companies, on First Avenue, at the waterfront, 1910 (Prince Rupert Optimist, 22 Sept. 1910, 1, descrip.; 21 Oct. 1910, 1, descrip., 26 Jan. 1911, 4, descrip.)
THE PRINCE RUPERT CLUB, Second Avenue West near 5th Street, a private businessman's club, 1910 (Prince Rupert Optimist, 26 Oct. 1910, 1, descrip.)
METHODIST CHURCH, Sixth Avenue West at Musgrave Place, 1911 (Prince Rupert Journal, 15 Sept. 1911, 5, t.c.; Daily News [Prince Rupert], 4 Oct. 1911, 4, descrip.; C.R., xxv, 8 Nov. 1911, 58)
CANADIAN BANK OF COMMERCE, Second Avenue, 1912 (The Sun [Vancouver], 9 July 1912, 10, descrip.)