Grasett, Edmund Yule | Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada

GRASETT, Edmund Yule (1865-1944) was recorded in Vancouver, B.C. as an architect and owner of a business called “ E.Y. Grasett Ltd., Architectural Builders of Homes “ (Vancouver City Directory, 1911, 712). That same year, his name appears as “architect” in a brief biography published in Who’s Who in Western Canada, 1911, 191. In 1920 both he and Sholto Smith were in a brief partnership in Vancouver, and they prepared the design for the Elysium Hotel, West Pender Street, VANCOUVER, B.C., built 1920; later renamed Park Plaza Hotel; demol. 1976 (drawings at the Vancouver City Archives). Grasett was born in Simcoe, Ontario on 27 October 1865 and he arrived in British Columbia in 1890. He is listed variously as a carpenter, then as a contractor and builder, then as an architect, and later as a real estate broker after 1920. His name does not appear in the register books of the Architectural Inst. of British Columbia. Grasett died in Vancouver on 23 January 1944 (inf. Gordon Fulton, Moose Jaw).