Richard Lewis (Canadian politician)

Richard Lewis
Mayor of Victoria, British Columbia
In office
1872–1872
Preceded byWilliam John Macdonald
Succeeded byJames E. McMillan
Personal details
BornLondon, England
Professionarchitect

Richard Lewis (1824 – January 1875) was the mayor of Victoria, British Columbia, for one term in 1872.[1]

Lewis arrived in the Colony of Vancouver Island in 1858 from San Francisco. He was an architect by training, but started an undertaking business because of a lack of work for architects in the city's early days.

He served as an alderman on the first city council in 1862.

In the 1870s, Lewis returned to architecture, and designed the Masonic Temple[2] and the Lascelles building[3] at Government and Fort Streets.

See also

List of mayors of Victoria, British Columbia

References

  1. ^ No Ordinary People: Victoria's Mayors Since 1862 by Valerie Green - Beach Holme Publishers 1992
  2. ^ "The Edges of Time - Masonic Temple".
  3. ^ http://wikimapia.org/21591318/Southgate-Lascelles-Building [user-generated source]


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