Cecil Norman GORE

  General Notes:

RESIDENCES: 1376 Monterey Avenue, Oak Bay, British Columbia, Canada (as per the 1945 Canada Voter Registration Records)
MILITARY: Army (as per the 1945 Canada Voter Registration Records)
FAMILY:
-- His great grandfather, Thomas Sinclair Gore (1820-1858), was an Irishman who founded the town of Gore's Landing at Rice Lake, Ontario, Canada in 1841.
-- His grandfather, William Sinclair Gore (1842-1919), moved from Ontario, Canada to British Columbia, Canada in 1875 (at age 35) while a dominion land surveyor working on the westward railroad surveys. At the age of 38 William was appointed Surveyor-General for the Province of British Columbia, Canada, a position he held twice for 20 years, the record for this post in the British Columbia government. William was responsible for preliminary land surveys conducted at the north end of Vancouver Island and for several years was the Minister of Lands and Words. It was he who prepared the specifications for the present legislative buildings in Victoria. In 1891, William was appointed Deputy Minister/Commissioner of Lands & Works for the Province of British Columbia. William's many interests included bicycling, golf and canoeing. He was Commodore of the Victoria Yacht Club and designed and built class winning yachts. In his later years, he was secretary of the Corporation of British Columbia Land Surveyors.
-- His father, Arthur Sinclair Gore, was initially a draftsman who worked for the famed Canadian architect Samuel Maclure for a time. At the age of 28 (in 1907) Arthur started the Electric Blueprint and Map Company. It was one of the first engineering supply and blueprint firms, with branches in both Vancouver and Victoria, British Columbia. In 1988, the Arthur Gore Home at 1502 Regents Place in Victoria (designed and built by Samuel Maclure in 1912) was designated a Heritage Site.
-- His uncle, Thomas Sinclair Gore (1869-1955), was initially a draftsman at the Albion Iron Works in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Thomas later became an architect who in 1907 designed, built and owned the renowned Hotel Geneve in the historic "Zona Rosa" district of Mexico City (see: www.hotelgeneve.com.mx/en/)

  Research Notes:

-- Tom Gore (http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/th/read/GORE/2009-02/1235411562)
-- Canada Voter Lists (1935-1980)
-- Web: Obituary Daily Times Index (1995-2011)
-- 1921 Census of Canada (Victoria, British Columbia)

Cecil married Helen Muriel ARNOTT, daughter of Thomas ARNOTT and Muriel, about 1938. (Helen Muriel ARNOTT was born about 1914 in Hong Kong, China and died in 2005.)

Cecil next married Anne TURNER about 1938. (Anne TURNER was born in 1905 in Oldham, Greater Manchester County, England and died in 1997.)