Salsbury House

Early Shaughessy resident William Ferriman Salsbury spent $25,000 on this three-storey house in 1912. Salsbury, who reportedly arrrived in B.C. on the first transcontinental train, was one of the many CPR officials who settled in the railway’s Shaughessy Heights.

After Salsbury retired to Victoria in 1921, he sold the house to Edward A. Morris, a successful Vancouver tobacconist.

Salsbury House had a conservatory, a huge billboard room, and tennis courts.

The white roughcast walls, prominent shaped gables and deep balcony show the sunny allure of the Mission style, a California import, whereas the picturesque massing and broad roofs betray the influence of old England.

Source

At Home with History, Eve Lazarus (P.86)