DAWSON, John (fl. 1911-13), active in Vancouver, B.C. where he was in partnership with Milton D. Campbell in 1911 (see list of works under Campbell & Dawson). Their collaboration was a brief one, and the following year, in 1912, Dawson had formed a new partnership with William Aquilla Penticost (1888-1976), an American-born architect from Indiana who was active in the Pacific Northwest before WWI. The office of Dawson & Penticost is recorded from late 1911 to 1912, but no information has been found on their works after 1913 (City of Vancouver Directory, 1912, 701), and no biographical information on Dawson has been found. He should not be confused with another Vancouver architect John Wilding Dawson, active there in 1890-91.
DAWSON & PENTICOST
(works in Vancouver region)
CEDAR COTTAGE NEIGHBOURHOOD, a three storey apartment block with 24 units, located on an unnamed street, 1911 (C.R., xxv, 13 Dec. 1911, 120)
NORTH VANCOUVER, Lynn Valley Methodist Church, Institute Road, near Lynn Creek, 1912; still standing as of 2019 (C.R., xxvi, 31 Jan. 1912, 60, t.c.)
HASTINGS STREET, near Main Street, a 6 storey office block for Mrs. C. Dawson, located "...directly opposite the Holden Building", 1912, but not built (The Sun [Vancouver], 19 Aug. 1912, 17, descrip.; inf. Patrick Gunn, City of Vancouver)
POWELL STREET, between Heatley Avenue at Hawks Avenue, a three storey apartment block for Mrs. Mabel Langley, 1912 (The Sun [Vancouver], 30 Sept. 1912, 15; Province [Vancouver], 5 Oct. 1912, 31, descrip.)