Background
He was born in Cornwall, the son of John Pascoe and Marjorie Wills, and came to Canada around 1870.
He was born in Cornwall, the son of John Pascoe and Marjorie Wills, and came to Canada around 1870.
He represented Moose Jaw City in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan from 1921 to 1925 as an independent Conservative. Pascoe acquired his own homestead near Regina around 1883. After four years, he moved to Michigan and then back to Ontario.
During this time, he was involved in the lumber business.
Pascoe married Mary Olton in 1887. In 1891, he travelled west again, settling on his own homestead near Moose Jaw.
Pascoe was mayor of Moose Jaw from 1913 to 1915. He was defeated when he ran for reelection to the provincial assembly in 1925 as a Conservative.
Pascoe served as mayor of Moose Jaw again from 1929 until his death in 1931.
He died at the age of 68 of a heart attack in a Moose Jaw suburb while attempting to shovel away sand that had been blown around his car by the wind.
He served as chairman of the Local Improvement District surrounding Moose Jaw and then, after he moved his residence to Moose Jaw, as a member of Moose Jaw City Council.