ARCHITECTURE:
This style of home has been labelled the “Maclure bungalow.” It is a 1½-storey, steeply hip-roofed Colonial Bungalow with a British Arts & Crafts flavour. The slightly flared roof has multiple exposed rafter tails, and three flat-roofed dormers on front and sides. The centrally-located, hip-roofed entry porch has four square posts and two pilasters, long British A&C brackets and a solid balustrade. There is an angled bay on the right side, a square bay on the left. The windows are leaded casements. The cladding is vertical board-and-batten and the foundation is concrete. There is a matching garage at the left rear.
ORIGINAL OCCUPANTS:
1913-41: Arthur Sinclair Gore (1879-1976), son of William Sinclair Gore, BC Surveyor General in 1878-91 and 1898-1905, was born at Gore’s Landing, BC, named for his father. He married Mary Lambert “Molly” (née Monteith, b. Victoria 1884-1942) in 1909. A draftsman in his earlier days, he worked for Sam Maclure before establishing Gore Electric Blue Print & Map Co. By 1936, he was living in Vancouver managing Gore EBP&MC there while Mary lived here with son Cecil Norman Gore (1913-2002). Arthur later married Helene “Helen” (née Bullett, b. London, ENG 1892-1987).
OTHER OCCUPANTS:
1942-48: Cmdr Maurice Adrian Wood, RCN (b. Cowichan Bay, BC 1898-1971) and Mabel Richmond (née Cotton, b. USA 1903-1995) married here in 1926 (528 St. Charles). Wood studied at Royal Naval College in Halifax 1913-16, then became a Midshipman. He served in RN ships during WWI returning to Canada in 1938 to take command of HMCS Armentieres then HMCS Nootka. He served on Staff of Commanding Officer Pacific Coast as RCN’s first Anti-Submarine Officer in 1939, then in 1944 in HMCS Chatham as Naval OC Prince Rupert, BC. He retired here in 1946.
1952-55: Stock broker Eric Francis Wainwright (b. Crewe, ENG 1900-1965) and Jean Maud (née MacMahon, b. Edmonton, AB 1908-1989) later divorced.