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Vancouver Stained Glass Windows by John Henry Dearie and Duncan W. Dearie Alice B. Hamilton & K. Corey Keeble A significant number of stained glass windows by this father and son brought William Morris's arts and crafts message to Canada. After what is generally considered to have been a decline during the 17th and 18th centuries, the art of stained glass was successfully revived in the course of the 19th century. An important firm in terms of this revival was that established in England by William Morris in 1861. The earliest documented glass by the Morris firm was designed in the same year for the Church of All Saints, Selsey, Gloucestershire, a building by one of the foremost architects of the Gothic revival, G. F. Bodley. Morris was fortunate in having Edward Burne-Jones as his designer, and during the ensuing decades Burne-Jones set the style for the glass of the Morris firm. Major elements derived from his highly personal idiom were, in fact, adopted by his successors. Neither Morris nor Burne-Jones survived the century. Morris died in 1896; Burne-Jones in 1898. They were succeeded by one of the most able of Mor- ris's designers, John Henry Dearie. Dearie had first been employed as a showroom assistant in 1877 and had moved on progressively to design treework and foliage for stained glass windows, and later foregrounds, backgrounds and figurework. By 1896 Dearie was the chief designer of Morris cartoons. His earlier work, as might be expected, was strongly imitative of Burne-Jones, not through any deficiency in his imagination, but due to the necessity of adapting his own powers of design to the continuation of the tradition of the Morris workshop. By 1900 Dearie's work was recognizable as a unique style, but one where his own independence never violated the integrity of the earlier style of the firm. John Henry Dearie lived well into the early years of the 20th century. He died in 1932, but the name of Dearie continued to be associated with the Morris tradition in the person of his son, Duncan Dearie. Duncan Dearie. Duncan W. Dearie, born in 1893, became director of the firm of Morris & Company (Art-Workers Ltd.) in 1932 on the death of his father. At this time the firm was operating in two locations, Merton Park, south of London, and Hanover Square in London. It is not to be confused with the firm of William Morris Company (really the Morris Singer Company of Great Peter Street, Westminster, London), as Dearie was forced to point out. In spite of the name of the latter, it is the Morris & Company, Art Workers Ltd., which is the direct descendant of the organization originally owned and directed by William Morris until his death in 1896. Interestingly, the work of the Morris Company is represented in Canada by a significant number of windows designed both by John Henry and Duncan Dearie, and a number of characteristic examples of their window designs are found in British Columbia in the city of Vancouver. The earliest "Harmony" window, 1931, by J. H. Dearie after F. Dicksee. West Vancouver Memorial Library. 46 May/June 1979