MOORE, Charles (1873-1965) lived and worked in Creston, British Columbia and spent almost all of his career in this small town near the U.S. Border and west of Cranbrook, B.C. Born in Kinkiang, China on 18 December 1873, his family emigrated to Canada in 1885 and they settled at Victoria, B.C. where Charles M. trained as a land surveyor under J.H. Gray, DLS. He was recorded as an architect, civil engineer and mining engineer in Nanaimo, B.C. in 1892 (British Columbia Directory, 1892, p. 1202), but he did not receive a formal university education in architecture. Instead, he gained his knowledge of building and construction by enrolling in courses at the International Correspondence School of Scranton, Penn. from 1903 to 1906. He moved to the B.C. Interior in 1908, and later became a full member of the Architectural Institute of British Columbia, but resigned from that organization 1944. Moore died at Creston, B.C. on 26 March 1965 (obituary Creston Review, 31 March 1965, 2; biog. and port. Victoria Daily Times, 1 Sept. 1959, 13; inf. A.I.B.C., Vancouver).
CRESTON, B.C., Christ Church [Anglican], 1910-11 (The High-Way Anglican Quarterly – Jubilee Issue, Diocese of Kootenay, Vol. 4, No.5, April 1960, 31)
CRESTON, B.C, large hotel for John Shean, Canyon Street at Creston Avenue, 1935 (Creston Review, 16 Aug. 1935, 1, descrip.)