EGDELL, Daniel Bowden (1883-1967), active in Nanaimo, B.C. from 1912 until after 1950, where is was variously referred to as an architect, contractor and builder. Born in Jesmond, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England on 20 August 1883, he was educated there and arrived in Canada in April 1904 and settled in Vancouver. He relocated to Nanaimo on Vancouver Island in November 1911 and spent his entire career there as a contractor and builder, offering services to construct buildings for which he had prepared the designs. In 1913, he completed the drawings for “..a fine design of the new building” for the Vancouver Milling Co., Nanaimo. Although his name is absent from the List of Members of the Architectural Inst. of British Columbia, he was referred to as “the architect” in 1932 of the new Christian Science Church, Nanaimo. In 1946, he was listed as both superintendent of construction, and as “building superintendent” when he prepared the design for the McGavin Bakery Ltd. office and factory, Nanaimo. Egdell died in Vancouver on 12 June 1967 (obituary Nanaimo Free Press, 13 June 1967, 9; biog. and list of works in Donald Luxton, Building The West: The Early Architects of British Columbia, 2003, 290-91, illus.; list of works 498)
(works in Nanaimo)
VANCOUVER MILLING CO., Selby Street, near the Occidental Hotel, 1913 (Nanaimo Free Press, 31 March 1913, 1, descrip.)
PARKIN BLOCK, Commercial Street, near Bastion Street, a two storey block for John Parkin, 1922 (Nanaimo Free Press, 5 June 1922, 1, descrip.; 9 Oct. 1922, 1, descrip.; David Spearing, Heritage Inventory of Downtown Buildings in Nanaimo, 1982, 27, illus. .& descrip.)
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH, Chapel Street at Skinner Street, 1932 (Nanaimo Free Press, 7 Nov. 1932, 1, descrip.)
TERMINAL AVENUE NORTH, near Townsite Road, residence for Jack Egdell, 1939 (list of works in D. Luxton, Building The West, 2003, 498)
McGAVIN BAKERY CO., Haliburton Street at Baker Street, 1946 (Nanaimo Free Press, 1 March 1946, 7, illus. in advert.; 2 March 1946, 6-10, illus. & descrip., with port. of Egdell p. 11)