HOPE, Archibald Campbell (1870-1942) practised in Vancouver, B.C. from 1908 until his death there. Born in Bradford, England on 28 November 1870 he was the son of Thomas C. Hope, an architect of Bradford with whom he served an apprenticeship from 1888 onward. In 1901 he joined his father in a full partnership and remained there until 1906 when he moved to San Francisco, Calif. to work as a draftsman in connection with the rebuilding of the city after the earthquake. He came to Vancouver in 1908, perhaps with the encouragement of his older brother Charles E. Hope who had arrived in that city in 1890. Hope worked briefly in partnership with John S. Pearce from late 1907 to June 1908 (see works under Pearce & Hope) and later with Herbert M. Barker, and he was the first architect to accept the appointment in February 1909 as School Architect for the Vancouver District, a post which he held until 1910 when Norman A. Leech took over the department. By 1911 he had opened his own office and is best known for his distinctive Edwardian design for Mount Pleasant Post Office in Vancouver, a commission designed entirely by Hope rather than by the staff of the Department of Public Works in Ottawa who normally controlled the design of federal post office buildings. Hope died at Lower Capilano, B.C. on 4 November 1942 (death notice in the Vancouver Sun, 7 Nov. 1942, 18; biography in Who's Who and Why in Canada, 1913, 357; D. Luxton, Building the West: The Early Architects of British Columbia, 2003, 360-1, 505-06; inf. Architectural Inst. of British Columbia)
A.C. HOPE (works in Vancouver)
SIXTEENTH AVENUE SCHOOL, 1908 (Vancouver Daily World, 25 July 1908, 23)
BRITANNIA HIGH SCHOOL, Cotton Drive at Parker Street, 1909 (C.R., xxiii, 31 March 1909, 20, t.c.)
VANCOUVER, B.C., Oppenheimer Memorial Conservatories, a proposal to be located in Stanley Park, 1910, but not built (Daily News [New Westminster], 23 March 1910, 9, illus. & descrip.; inf. Jim Wolf, Burnaby)
HOPE & BARKER (works in North Vancouver)
NORTH VANCOUVER, Lonsdale Public School, Lonsdale Avenue at 22nd Street, 1910 (The Express [North Vancouver], 15 July 1910, 3, t.c.; C.R., xxiv, 3 Aug. 1910, 24)
NORTH VANCOUVER, Fire Hall No. 2, 13th Street at St. Georges Avenue, 1910-11 (C.R., xxiv, 21 Dec. 1910, 28)
A.C. HOPE (works in Vancouver and elsewhere)
EDMONDS, B.C., a club house, 1911 (C.R., xxv, 27 Sept. 1911, 59)
NORTH VANCOUVER, Masonic Hall, Lonsdale Avenue, 1912 (Province [Vancouver], 8 June 1912, 28, illus. & descrip.)
LADNER, B.C., Town Hall & Jail, 1912 (Province [Vancouver], 15 June 1912, 27, descrip.; and 22 June 1912, 22, illus.; Delta Times [Ladner], 11 Jan. 1913, 1 & 2, descrip.)
CORDOVA STREET, between Carrall Street and Columbia Street, a 6 storey rooming house with 150 rooms, 1913 (Province [Vancouver], 15 March 1913, 24, descrip.; Vancouver Sun, 17 March 1913, 4, descrip.)
POSTAL STATION C, Mount Pleasant, Main Street at 15th Avenue, 1914-15 (Western Call [Vancouver], 5 Sept. 1913, 4, illus. & descrip.; C.R., xxviii, 18 March 1914, 339-40, illus. & descrip.; Canada, Sessional Papers, 1916, Report 19, 107-08, descrip.; dwgs. at Vancouver City Archives)
ALBURY APARTMENTS, Broughton Street, 1926 (dwgs. at Vancover City Archives)
VICTORIA, B.C., apartment block for William Ellis, Newport Avenue near Margate Avenue, Oak Bay, 1927 (C.R., xli, 8 June 1927, 54)
JERVIS STREET, at Nelson Street, a two storey apartment block for an unnamed owner, 1928 (C.R., xlii, 9 May 1928, 58, t.c.)
MANOA APARTMENTS, Yew Street at West 3rd Avenue, 1928 (Province [Vancouver], 3 May 1928, 32; C.R., xlii, 16 May 1928, 64; City of Vancouver b.p. 21626, 1 May 1928)
ROXBOROUGH APARTMENTS, West 15th Avenue at Fir Street, for Kilgour & Dargavale, 1928 (Province [Vancouver], 3 May 1928, 32; City of Vancouver b.p. 21453, 14 April 1928; dwgs. at Vancover City Archives)
MANONA APARTMENTS, West 15th Avenue near Fir Street, 1928-29 (C.R., xlii, 28 Nov. 1928, 59; City of Vancouver b.p. 23529, 13 Nov. 1928)
S.S. KRESGE STORE, West Hastings Street, 1930 (dwgs. at Vancouver City Archives)
FORT LANGLEY, B.C., Community Hall, 1932 (Langley Advance, 25 Feb. 1932, 8)
COMPETITIONS
SASKATOON, SASK., major addition to Alexandra School, Avenue G near 20th Street, 1908. He is almost certainly the same Mr. Hope, architect who was one of four architects who sent in plans for this project (Daily Phoenix (Saskatoon), 24 April 1908, 6). The winner was David Webster of Saskatoon.
VANCOUVER, B.C., Stanley Park improvements, including laying out the grounds adjacent to the lake, a band stand, refreshment pavilion, children's playground, and animal Zoo, 1911. The Vancouver office of Hope & Barker was one of nearly a dozen firms who submitted plans in this open competition (Vancouver Daily World, 18 Jan. 1911, 3). It is unclear who won this commission.