BC history – designer of SFU dies at age 96

Geoffrey at right 1936

Son of a Hollywood actor.

Veteran of WW 2

Partner to Arthur Erickson in the 60 and 70’s

Geoffrey Massey helped design projects like

Simon Fraser University and the MacMillan Bloedel Building.

As a Vancouver city councillor with Art Phillips and TEAM in 1972, he was part of a political movement that put a stop to freeways and redeveloped the south side of False Creek from industrial to residential. One of the early owners, architects and developers at Whistler in the 1960’s.

Massey died Tuesday morning from pneumonia in a hospice at Lion’s Gate Hospital in North Vancouver.

His life story could have been scripted by Hollywood.

In fact, his father, Raymond Massey, was a movie star, his uncle Vincent was Canada’s governor-general from 1952-59, and his family founded the farm-equipment giant Massey-Harris, which became Massey-Ferguson.