Mr. Ferris, who passed away on Sunday, May 25th, 1930, in his ninety-second year, was an English solicitor, whose tastes led him to the study of art and the making of pictures. He came to Vancouver in 1888, bringing with him a large family of young people, of whom nine survive him. He was happily so circumstanced that he was able to devote himself to the depicting of local scenes. Among these his spirited painting of the Beaver on the rocks at Prospect Point is perhaps the best known. He was the first teacher of art in the city.

      All his life a collector of artistic things, he had not been here a year before he initiated a movement to form a Museum, a work in which he had the enthusiastic co-operation of Captain and Mrs. Webster and Captain and Mrs. Mellon, well-known old-timers, who have long passed to their rest.

      Twenty years ago he took charge as curator, carrying out the duties until, an advanced octogenarian, he was compelled to relinquish them to others. The Art, Historical and Scientific Association, by way of marking his long association with the Museum, created for him the title Curator Emeritus.

      Other citizens have done more spectacular things for Vancouver than Mr. Ferris, but this city would be a poorer place from a cultural standpoint were it not for unostentatious labors of love such as his.