Camera Workers: The British Columbia, Alaska & Yukon Photographic
Directory, 1858-1950 - B - Volume 1 (1858-1900)
© 1999-2008 By
David Mattison
Updated: 2008.07.23.
NAME:
Badlam, Maude (Miss).
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF
DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Alaska.
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL:
July 1889.
STATUS: Amateur (visit).
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: A passenger
on the cruise ship Ancon to Glacier Bay, Alaska, she photographed a
mirage at Muir Glacier on July 23, 1889. Her father[?] published this image in
Chapter 10 of his book The Wonders of Alaska (1891). Also reproduced in
this chapter are the purportedly mirage images taken in 1888 and 1889
respectively by R.G. Willoughby
and one of the I.W. Taber & Co.
photographers.
COLLECTIONS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES:
Badlam (1891).
NAME: Baer, Walter Wesley.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Vancouver.
HOME ADDRESS/YEAR: 434 Princess St./1894-1895.
WORK INTERVAL:
1894-1895.
STATUS: Amateur.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: A minister at
Methodist Church, Westminster Rd. near South Vancouver brickyards (opened
January 1894), and at the Princess St. Methodist Church (1894-1895). A promoter
of the Vancouver
Camera Club, he gave lantern slide shows with local views in January and
December 1894. He lived in Victoria after the turn of the century.
COLLECTIONS: BVIPA.
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES:
News-Advertiser, 1894 01 10/1 1894 12 12/8 1895 04 21/8 WIL94 WIL95
Pierce (1985) Voters List,
1893, Victoria City (Baer, W. Wesley).
NAME:
Bailey, Charles S. 
LIFE DATES: 1869 06 07-1896 11 29.
BIRTHPLACE: Creemore, ON.
PLACE OF DEATH: Kamloops.
WHERE ACTIVE:
Vancouver.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: 113 Carrall St./1887-1888 227 Hastings
St./1888-1890 176 Cordova St. (see also 160 Cordova St.)/1890-1894 160
Cordova St. (see also 158-162 Cordova St.)/1890-1894 158-162 Cordova
St./1892-1894 138 Cordova St./1894-1895.
HOME ADDRESS/YEAR: Westminster
Ave./1887-1888 Seymour St. between Davie and Drake/1888-1891 1109 Seymour
St./1892-1895 Kamloops/1895-1896.
WORK INTERVAL: 1887-1895.
STATUS:
Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: He arrived in Vancouver in the winter of
1887-1888 and operated as C. S. Bailey
& Co. with F. V.
Bingham and E.
Straube, until 1889. He then formed a partnership with
H.G. Neelands
as Bailey & Neelands
which lasted for little more than a year. The partnership was succeeded by that
of the Bailey Brothers which
consisted of C. S. and William Bailey, 1890+. C. S.
Bailey married Jennie Johnstone on September 4, 1895 and moved to Kamloops the
following month. There is no record of his practicing photography after his
move there. Though he was ill for most of the remainder of his life, he is
credited with managing the Kamloops branch of the Bailey Bros. Ltd. store. He
may have been the first professional photographer from Canada to visit Hawaii
(January-May 1895) his motive was pleasure and not business. Coincidentally,
one of his travelling companions was
E. A. Hegg who
later achieved international fame as a photographer of the Klondike gold rush.
Both photographed together on a tour of Oahu. C. S. Bailey's death at the age
of 27 cut short a promising career.
COLLECTIONS: BVA, BVAA, and HSA (all
known negatives).
IDENTIFYING MARKS: see
C. S. Bailey
& Co. Bailey & Neelands
Bailey Bros.
REFERENCES: Various Vancouver,
Kamloops and Hawaii newspapers, 1886-1896 WIL88 HEN89 WIL90 WIL91 WIL92
WIL93 WIL94 WIL95 Mattison
(1980 05):17-28 Mattison
(1982) Mattison (1990b).
NAME: Bailey, William.
LIFE DATES:
1865 02 22-1936 or 1937.
BIRTHPLACE: Creemore, ON.
PLACE OF DEATH:
North Vancouver?
WHERE ACTIVE: Vancouver.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: 160
Cordova St. (see also 158-162 Cordova St.)/1890-1894 158-162 Cordova
St./1892-1894 138 Cordova St./1894-1901.
HOME ADDRESS/YEAR: 1109 Seymour
St./1892-1901.
WORK INTERVAL: 1890-1892?
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: He arrived in Vancouver in December 1890 to join his
brother Charles as the Bailey Bros. Although he
generally managed the business affairs of the company, he did on occasion take
photographs.
COLLECTIONS: see Bailey Bros.
IDENTIFYING MARKS: see Bailey Bros.
REFERENCES:
Various Vancouver and Winnipeg newspapers WIL92 WIL93 WIL94 WIL95 HEN97
WIL97 WIL99 HEN99 HEN00 see also Bailey, Charles
S.
NAME: Bailey &
Neelands.
WHERE ACTIVE: Vancouver.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: 227
Hastings St./1889-1890 176 Cordova St./1890.
WORK INTERVAL: 1889-1890.
STATUS: Studio.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Established in the summer 1889
by C.S. Bailey and
H.G. Neelands, the partnership was
dissolved in December 1890 and succeeded by that of the Bailey Bros. Neelands moved to Nelson with his brother
James and established with him the photographic firm of the
Neelands Bros.
COLLECTIONS:
BVA and BVAA (glass negatives and prints).
IDENTIFYING MARKS: prints
usually numbered, captioned and marked " Bailey and Neelands, Photographers,
Vancouver, B.C." print mount may be marked " Bailey & Neelands Vancouver,
B.C."
REFERENCES/ADVERTISING
AND SOURCES (IMAGES): Various Vancouver newspapers WIL90 WIL91 Bailey &
Neelands (1889) see also Bailey, Charles S.
NAME: Bailey Brothers.
VARIANT: Bailey
Brothers Company, Limited.
WHERE ACTIVE: Vancouver Kamloops.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: 160 Cordova St. (see also 158-162 Cordova St.)/1890-1894
158-162 Cordova St./1892-1894 138 Cordova St./1894-1900.
WORK
INTERVAL: 1890-1898.
STATUS: Studio.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: This
partnership was formed in December 1890 when William moved to Vancouver from
Winnipeg and replaced H. G. Neelands
in the Bailey & Neelands partnership. The
company dealt not only in photographs but also in books and stationery
supplies. After 1898 the firm is no longer listed as photographers in the
classified business directory for Vancouver. On September 4, 1895 Bailey
Brothers Company, Limited was registered under the 1890 Companies' Act. The
principals in the company were the brothers and their brother-in-law Joseph
Coupland.
COLLECTIONS: BVA and BVAA (glass negatives and prints).
IDENTIFYING MARKS: prints may be numbered, captioned and marked " Bailey Bros.,
Photo., Vancouver, B.C." " Bailey Bros." on print " Bailey Bros. Co'y Ltd.
Vancouver and Kamloops, B.C." on front of print mount.
REFERENCES: Various
Vancouver and Kamloops newspapers WIL92 WIL93 WIL94 WIL95 HEN97 WIL97
see also Bailey, Charles S.
Bailey
Brothers Company, Limited see Bailey Brothers.
NAME: Baker, ---.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Camp McKinney.
BUSINESS ADDRESS-YEAR:
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL: 1900.
STATUS: Commercial?.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Half-tone reproductions marked
" Baker Photo" were published in The Mining Record.
COLLECTIONS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS: see above.
REFERENCES: The Mining Record
(1900 08):293-300.
NAME: Baker, William
Peacock.
LIFE DATES: 1841 __ __-1942 04 01.
BIRTHPLACE: Owen
Sound, ON.
PLACE OF DEATH: Vancouver.
WHERE ACTIVE: Victoria.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: 59 ¼ Government St./1898-1900 59 ½
Government St./1899.
HOME ADDRESS/YEAR: 204 Pandora Ave./1898-1900.
WORK INTERVAL: 1898-1900.
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY:
According to an article two years before his death, he took up photography in
Oakville, Ontario, after injuring his hands. He came to BC in 1890, first to
Victoria, then moved to Vancouver.
COLLECTIONS: BVIPA (photo no.
HP006518).
IDENTIFYING MARKS: " W. P. Baker, Photographer, Victoria, B.C."
on verso of portrait.
REFERENCES: HEN98 HEN99 WIL99 HEN00 Voters List,
1898 Province, 1940 12 14/16 1942 04 02/9 (obit.) Sun, 1942 04
04/25 (obit.).
NAME:
Baldwin, Clyde.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE:
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL:
STATUS:
SUMMARY: Official photographer to the __________________________________.
COLLECTIONS/FORMATS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: Grinnell
(Gold Hunting in Alaska in Alaska Journal, 1983).
NAME: Bale, G.C.
VARIANT: Gold Star Studio.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE:
Dawson, Yukon.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: Dawson/1898.
WORK INTERVAL:
1898.
STATUS: Commercial.
SUMMARY: He operated the Gold Star Studio
in conjunction with the artist Gustaf Nordblom.
COLLECTIONS/FORMATS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: Klondike Nugget, 1898 07 23/end page
(ad).
NAME: Ballard, C.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: New
Westminster?.
HOME ADDRESS/YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL: 1893.
STATUS:
Amateur.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: He won a prize at ... [source to be
checked].
COLLECTIONS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES:
World, 1893 10 04/5.
NAME: Baltzly,
Benjamin.
LIFE DATES: 1835 04 05-1883 07 10.
BIRTHPLACE: Sugar
Creek Township, Tuscarawas County, OH.
PLACE OF DEATH: Cambridge, MA.
WHERE ACTIVE: B.C. Montreal, PQ Cambridge, MA.
WORK INTERVAL: 1871.
STATUS: Commercial (visit).
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Employed by
William Notman, Baltzly was seconded to
a Geological Survey of Canada expedition which arrived in Victoria in July 1871
and subsequently journeyed up the Fraser and Thompson rivers as far as the
Yellowhead Pass. Baltzly's journal of his part in the expedition was published
in the Montreal Gazette in 1872 and reprinted in Birrell's biography.
Baltzly worked for Notman from May 1870 to July 1875 and from May 1876 to
August 1877.
COLLECTIONS: OOA QMMMCM.
IDENTIFYING MARKS: prints
usually captioned and/or marked with the Notman imprint.
REFERENCES:
Birrell (1978).
Bangen, Simon see Baugen,
Simon.
NAME: Banks, H.D.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE:
Dalton Trail (Pyramid Harbor, Lynn Canal, AK to Fort Selkirk, Yukon).
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL: 1898.
STATUS:
SUMMARY: He
accompanied members of a group travelling to the Yukon known as the " Mysterious
36" .
COLLECTIONS/FORMATS: Yukon Archives (MM Collection).
IDENTIFYING
MARKS:
REFERENCES: Cohen (1977).
NAME: Barley, Harrie or Harry C.
LIFE
DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Skagway, AK
Whitehorse, Yukon (branch) Yukon Territory White Pass & Yukon Railway
line Atlin, BC.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: Fourth Ave. between Broadway &
Spring Sts., Skagway/1898-1899 corner Broadway & Fourth Ave., Skagway/ca.
1899 06-1901 Whitehorse/1901-19__.
WORK INTERVAL: 1898-1901.
STATUS:
Commercial.
SUMMARY: Official photographer to the White Pass & Yukon
Railway (1898-1900) over its 110 mile line from Skagway to Whitehorse, he had
an advantage similar to some of his contemporaries a decade earlier whom the
Canadian Pacific Railway commissioned to ride the rails and in some cases even
outfitted the photographer with a special photographic darkroom car. The
Whitehorse branch studio was overseen by Jerry Doody.
Minter, a WP& YR
executive, recounted in his history that Barley was not particularly liked by
the construction crews because he took dangerous risks and injured himself at
least once by getting too close to a blasting site, promising that he would
" stuff the echo" if the contractor put him close enough to the blast (p.223).
Barley photographed in the Atlin area during the gold rush there in
1899-1900.
COLLECTIONS/FORMATS: BCARS YA.
IDENTIFYING MARKS: Print
surface usually titled, sometimes dated and signed " H.C. Barley [place]" or
" H.C. Barley" .
REFERENCES: Minter (1987) Grainger (Directory Alaska
Postcards, 1992) Dobrowolsky & Ingram (1994) Grainger " Yukon
Postcards Checklist" (n.d.).
NAME: Barraclough, W. H.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Chilliwack.
BUSINESS
ADDRESS-YEAR:
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL: 1896.
STATUS:
Commercial?
COLLECTIONS: BVIPA.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY:
COLLECTIONS: BVIPA.
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: BVIPA photo no.
HP016181.
NAME: Bart, C.W.
LIFE
DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Seattle, Wash.
Vancouver Rossland Nelson.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: 55 Cordova St.
(Sullivan Block)/1895-1896.
HOME ADDRESS/YEAR: 911 Howe St./1896.
WORK INTERVAL: 1895-1900.
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: A
partner with D. T. Smith in Seattle in 1889 (Smith & Bart), he had opened
the Popular Photo Parlour in
Vancouver by 1895. He then moved to Rossland and worked there about 1897. He
was last located in Nelson where he worked for the
Wadds Bros. about 1900.
COLLECTIONS: BVIPA.
IDENTIFYING MARKS: " C. W. Bart, Photo." on print.
REFERENCES: WIL95 HOD96 WIL97 HEN00 BVIPA Seattle prints.
Bartbole, W. see Barthole,
W.
NAME: Barthole,
W.
VARIANT: Bartbole, W.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE
OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Vancouver.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: 59 Cordova
St./1896.
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL: 1896.
STATUS:
Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY:
COLLECTIONS:
IDENTIFYING
MARKS:
REFERENCES: HOD96 LOV96.
NAME: Bartlett, L. B. (Mrs.).
VARIANT:
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE:
Victoria.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: 112 Government St./1885.
HOME
ADDRESS/YEAR: Blanshard St./1885.
WORK INTERVAL: 1885.
STATUS:
Unknown.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: She worked at the
Elite Photo Gallery.
REFERENCES:
WIL85.
NAME: Bassett, William P.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Victoria.
HOME ADDRESS/YEAR: 36 Alfred St./1897 37 Caledonia Ave./1899.
WORK
INTERVAL: 1898.
STATUS: Amateur.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: He was awarded
a prize for the best collection of amateur photos at the New Westminster
Provincial Fair in 1898. He worked as a travelling salesman for a fruit
preserving company, O'Kell & Morris, in 1897 and 1899. He was also listed
as having worked for the B.C. Jobbing Co. in 1899.
COLLECTIONS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: WIL97 WIL99 HEN99
News-Advertiser, 1898 10 13/5.
NAME:
Baugen, Simon.
VARIANT: Bangen, Simon.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Bella Coola.
BUSINESS
ADDRESS-YEAR:
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL: 1896 02-1897.
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: He attempted to establish a
photo studio in the Norwegian colony at Bella Coola but was unsuccessful. After
arriving in February 1896, his wife and children joined him the following
month. He returned to Crookston, Minnesota, the following summer.
Ivar Fougner, who wrote of Baugen in
his diary, said on December 26, 1896 (p. 72): “S. Bangen [sic] is
determined to leave in the spring. He has taken some splendid photoes [sic] and
intend to get more. I think I shall have him take the old camp and the interior
of my cabin before he leaves.”
COLLECTIONS: BVIPA (I. Fougner
collection).
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: WIL97 [" Bangen, S,
artist" ] I. Fougner diary (BVIPA E/C/F82a).
B.C. Fine Art
Gallery see B.C. Photo
& Fine Art Studio.
NAME: B.C. Photo & Fine Art Studio.
VARIANT: B.C. Fine Art Gallery.
WHERE ACTIVE: New Westminster.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: 441 Columbia St./1892-1895.
WORK INTERVAL:
1892-1895.
STATUS: Studio.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: This studio was
managed by S. J. Thompson.
COLLECTIONS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: WIL92 WIL93 WIL94
WIL95.
NAME: Beaver Photograph
Gallery.
WHERE ACTIVE: Vancouver.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: 130
Cordova St./1893.
WORK INTERVAL: 1893.
STATUS: Studio.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Managed by David
Ferguson, the newspaper ad announcing its opening read in part ”Just
opened The Beaver Photograph Gallery next to Public Reading Room 130 Cordova
St. All modern appliances, Prices moderate, Satisfaction guaranteed.”
COLLECTIONS: BVAA (MILLS P. 61).
IDENTIFYING MARKS: " The Beaver Studio" on
verso of print.
REFERENCES: News-Advertiser, 1893 02 21/1
World, 1893 03 23/6.
Beecher, C.M. see
Vancouver Camera Club.
NAME: Benedict, Neal D.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE:
Valdez, AK.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL: 1898 08 26.
STATUS:
SUMMARY:
COLLECTIONS/FORMATS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: Alaska State Library (1995).
NAME: Benson, Alfred Robson.
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LIFE DATES: 1815? __
__-[before] 1909 __ __.
BIRTHPLACE: Whitby, Yorkshire, UK.
PLACE OF
DEATH: Whitby, Yorkshire, UK.
WHERE ACTIVE: Nanaimo.
HOME
ADDRESS-YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL: 1860.
STATUS: Amateur.
BIOGRAPHICAL
SUMMARY: The son of William and Elizabeth Benson, he was christened on November
24, 1815 at his birthplace. He arrived in in BC 1849 and served as a physician
at various Hudson's Bay Company forts and towns, including Victoria, Nanaimo
(1857-1862), and Vancouver, Washington. Francis G. Claudet met him at Nanaimo
and utilized some of the doctor's equipment to obtain a view of Nanaimo between
June 11 and 22, 1860. Mount Benson near Nanaimo was named in 1859 after him.
COLLECTIONS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: Christening,
FamilySearch International Genealogical Index (http://www.familysearch.org)
BVIPA, Claudet papers, A/E/C57/C57 (letter, F.G. Claudet to Mary Claudet, 1860
06 22) BVIPA, Benson papers Smith
(1975) Walbran (1971):48.
NAME: Benson, O.B.
VARIANT
NAME: Benson, Bennett.
LIFE DATES:
1849? __ __.
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Nelson Ainsworth
Revelstoke.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: Main St. (Revelstoke)/1891 08 01-22.
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL: 1891.
STATUS: Commercial
(itinerant).
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Newspaper references placed him in
Nelson (May 1891) Ainsworth (possibly in June 1891) and Revelstoke (August
1891). He is recorded in the 1891 Canadian census as Bennett Benson,
age 42, and single his parents were born in Norway and his religion is Lutheran.
COLLECTIONS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: 1891 Canada Census, Yale District, BC
(Living Landscapes: Thompson/Okanagan Web site: http://royal.okanagan.bc.ca/census/index.html)
(Nelson)
Miner, 1891 05 23/8 (Revelstoke) Kootenay Star, 1891 08 01/4.
NAME: Bentley, Wesley D.
LIFE
DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Victoria.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: 32 Government St./1895.
HOME ADDRESS/YEAR: 171
Pandora Ave./1895.
WORK INTERVAL: 1895.
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: He managed the Berlin Portrait
Co.
COLLECTIONS: see Berlin Portrait Co.
IDENTIFYING MARKS: see Berlin Portrait Co.
REFERENCES: WIL95.
NAME: Berlin
Portrait Co.
WHERE ACTIVE: Victoria.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: 32
Government St./1895.
WORK INTERVAL: 1895.
STATUS: Studio.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: This studio was managed by Wesley
D. Bentley. One of his photographers was
J. Nelkin. Dempsey has the company in
Winnipeg in the 1890s? at 213 Rupert West with George Bentley, proprietor,
Wesley D. Bentley, assistant manager, and David Fieldman, artist.
COLLECTIONS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: WIL95
Dempsey (1978).
NAME: Berry, ---.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Victoria.
BUSINESS
ADDRESS-YEAR: 164 Johnson St./1890s.
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR:
WORK
INTERVAL: 1890s.
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: He had a
partnership with Edward C. Brooks as
Brooks & Berry.
COLLECTIONS: see
Brooks & Berry.
IDENTIFYING MARKS: see
Brooks & Berry.
REFERENCES: BVIPA Visual
Records accession 198410-005.
NAME:
Bessell, Mildred P.
VARIANT:
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Vancouver.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: 534
Cordova St./1899 729 Pender St./1899-1901.
HOME ADDRESS/YEAR: 612 Hornby
St./1899 79 Hornby St./1899 1000 Howe St./1900.
WORK INTERVAL:
1899-1901.
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: She worked at
the Edwards Bros. studio as a
photographer in 1899 and then managed her own studio, Bessell & Co.
COLLECTIONS: see
Bessell & Co.
IDENTIFYING MARKS: see
Bessell & Co.
REFERENCES: WIL99 HEN99
HEN00 HEN01.
NAME: Bessell & Co.
WHERE ACTIVE: Vancouver.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: 729 Pender
St./1899-1901.
WORK INTERVAL: 1899-1901.
STATUS: Studio.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: This studio was managed by Mildred
P. Bessell.
COLLECTIONS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES:
HEN99 HEN00 HEN01.
NAME: Beveridge,
Erskine.
LIFE DATES: 1852? __ __-1920 08 10.
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH: Scotland?.
WHERE ACTIVE: Vancouver Kamloops Victoria
New Westminster.
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR: Dunfermline, Scotland.
WORK
INTERVAL: 1885 05 29-06 08.
STATUS: Amateur.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY:
This Scottish photographer visited Vancouver on June 3, 1885 on his way around
the world. He visited Kamloops on May 29-30, New Westminster on June 2, and
Victoria on June 4-8. He was a linen manufacturer in Dunfermline and an
antiquarian of wide-ranging interests. His son published a memorial edition of
his photographs reproduced by the collotype process.
COLLECTIONS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES:
Beveridge (1922) Letter,
Central Library, Edinburgh, to Henri Robideau, 1975 07 10 (BVA reference).
NAME: Biggart, Percy A.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Vancouver.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: 516 Cordova St./1891-1892 Cordova St./1895.
HOME
ADDRESS/YEAR: Oppenheimer St./1891 605 Oppenheimer St./1892 334 Cordova E.
St./1895.
WORK INTERVAL: 1892-1895.
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: He worked as a clerk at the
Vancouver Photo Co. then as a
photographer at the same address in 1892. Although not listed in the 1894
directory, Biggart is listed as a photographer in the 1895 directory.
COLLECTIONS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: HEN91 WIL92 WIL95.
NAME: Bingham, Fred. V.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Winnipeg, MB
Emerson, MB Vancouver.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: 113 Carrall St./1888.
HOME ADDRESS/YEAR: Brunswick Hotel, Hastings St.
WORK INTERVAL: 1888.
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Headquartered in Winnipeg
between 1881 and 1887, Bingham formed a partnership with
A. B. Thom in 1884. He travelled
extensively along the CPR line and described himself as the " Official
Photographer C.P.R." By 1888 he was in partnership with C.
S. Bailey in Vancouver but disappeared from view after that year.
COLLECTIONS: ACG BVIPA.
IDENTIFYING MARKS: " Fred. V. Bingham, Official
Photographer C.P.R. Winnipeg, Man, Room 3, Catherine Block, Corner King and
Alexander Streets" on mount (BVIPA photo no. HP009812).
REFERENCES: WIL88
(Calgary) Herald, 1886 11 06/3 (3 references) 1886 11 20/3 1886 11
27/3 Vancouver News, 1886 12 07/3.
NAME: Blackett, Cuthbert (Bert or Burt).
LIFE
DATES: 1837 02 15-1925 05 06.
BIRTHPLACE: Stockton-on-Tees, UK.
PLACE
OF DEATH: Victoria.
WHERE ACTIVE: Vancouver Victoria.
BUSINESS
ADDRESS/YEAR: 302 Cordova St./1892-1893.
HOME ADDRESS/YEAR: Westminster
Ave./1891 211 Westminster Ave./1892 302 Oppenheimer St./1893 83 Superior
St./1895.
WORK INTERVAL: 1892-1893 1895.
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: According to his obituary he came to Canada in 1887 and
moved to Victoria in 1889 after two years in Winnipeg. He moved to Vancouver
and was listed as a clerk at Trueman
& Caple in 1891, then served as their photographer during the next two
years. He moved back to Victoria and worked as a labourer, then went back to
photography in 1895. After leaving photography he went to the Omineca district
to mine gold on Germansen Creek (1896) and also prospected in the Yukon.
COLLECTIONS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: HEN91 WIL92 WIL93
WIL94 WIL95 (Victoria) Times, 1925 05 07 (obit.).
NAME: Blackie, E. M. (Miss).
VARIANT:
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE:
Victoria.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: Mary St. and Esquimalt Rd./1897.
HOME ADDRESS/YEAR: Catherine St., Rose Cottage.
WORK INTERVAL: 1897.
STATUS: Commercial (assistant).
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: She worked for her
father or brother, W. G. Blackie (Blackie's Studio).
REFERENCES: WIL97.
Blackie, W. Gowrlie or Gourlie W. see
Blackie, William Gourlie.
NAME: Blackie, William
Gourlie.
VARIANT: Blackie, W. Gowrlie or Gourlie W.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Victoria.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: Mary St. and Esquimalt Rd./1895-1899.
HOME
ADDRESS/YEAR: Mary St./1895 Catherine St., Rose Cottage/1897-1899.
WORK
INTERVAL: 1895-1899.
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: He
operated Blackie's Studio.
COLLECTIONS:
BVIPA.
IDENTIFYING MARKS: " W. Gourlie Blackie, Photographic Artist,
Victoria West, B.C." on verso of print (BVIPA photo no. HP080024).
REFERENCES: WIL95 HEN97 WIL97 HEN98 HEN99 WIL99 Voters List, 1898.
NAME: Blackie's Studio.
WHERE
ACTIVE: Victoria.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: Mary St. and Esquimalt Rd.
WORK INTERVAL: 1897.
STATUS: Studio.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: This
studio was managed by W. G. Blackie.
COLLECTIONS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: WIL97.
NAME: Blacklin, ---.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Victoria.
BUSINESS
ADDRESS/YEAR: Fort St., next to Central School.
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL: 1862 10-?.
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY:
This person was a partner in the firm of Blacklin
& Bristow .
COLLECTIONS: see Blacklin
& Bristow.
IDENTIFYING MARKS: see Blacklin & Bristow.
REFERENCES:
Colonist, 1862 10 23/2.
NAME:
Blacklin & Bristow.
WHERE ACTIVE: Victoria.
BUSINESS
ADDRESS/YEAR: Fort St., next to Central School.
WORK INTERVAL: 1862 10-?
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: A single newspaper ad was
the only evidence of this firm's existence.
COLLECTIONS:
IDENTIFYING
MARKS:
REFERENCES/ADVERTISING
AND SOURCES (IMAGES): Colonist, 1862 10 23/2.
NAME: Blair, William.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Victoria.
BUSINESS
ADDRESS/YEAR: 60 Yates St./1900.
HOME ADDRESS/YEAR: Michigan and Menzies
St./1900.
WORK INTERVAL: 1900.
STATUS: Commercial.
COLLECTIONS:
BVIPA.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Listed as an artist in the 1892 and 1899
directories, he showed up as a photographer and an artist in the 1900
directory.
COLLECTIONS: BVIPA.
IDENTIFYING MARKS: " Wm. Blair, 60
Yates St. Victoria, B.C." on print mount.
REFERENCES: WIL92 HEN99 HEN00.
NAME: Blake, A. E.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Victoria.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: 52 Government St./1898-1899.
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL: 1898-1899.
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL
SUMMARY: This person was a partner in Blake &
Rodier.
COLLECTIONS: see Blake &
Rodier.
IDENTIFYING MARKS: see Blake &
Rodier.
REFERENCES: HEN98 WIL99.
NAME: Blake & Rodier.
WHERE ACTIVE:
Victoria.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: 52 Government St./1898-1899.
WORK
INTERVAL: 1898-1899.
STATUS: Studio.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: This was a
partnership of A. E. Blake and
George Rodier, described as photo and
portrait artists.
COLLECTIONS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES:
HEN98 WIL99.
NAME: Blanc, Louis A.
VARIANT: LeBlanc, L.A.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF
DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Victoria Richfield Barkerville.
BUSINESS
ADDRESS/YEAR: Government St., opposite St. Nicholas Hotel (Victoria) Main
St., W. side (Barkerville).
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL:
1865-1872.
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Prior to moving
to Victoria, Blanc worked as a jeweller/watchmaker in Olympia, Washington, in
August 1859. Having sold his Victoria studio in October 1865, Blanc's next
appeared in Richfield in 1867 where he opened his gallery at the end of June.
In May 1868 he opened another studio in Barkerville which was destroyed in the
fire that September. In addition to his photography business, Blanc had also
worked as a jeweller in Victoria as early as November 1860. While in
Barkerville he sold by lottery a batch of jewellery in May 1868. He reopened
his Barkerville studio in October or November and continued to operate in
Barkerville until he disposed of his stock at auction in late August 1872. He
left Barkerville by Barnard's Express on September 29, 1872. The Cariboo
Sentinel moved into the building which had housed his studio in October
1872. Some of his photographs were published as engravings in the Canadian
Illustrated News by the Cariboo Sentinel in March 1872.
COLLECTIONS: BVIPA.
IDENTIFYING MARKS: " L. A. Blanc, Photographer,
Barkerville, B.C." or " L. A. Blanc, Photographic Gallery, Barkerville, B.C." on
verso of cartes-de-visite " L. A. Blanc, Barkerville, B.C." on front of
carte-de-visite.
REFERENCES/ADVERTISING
AND SOURCES (IMAGES): (Olympia) Pioneer and Democrat, 1859
08 19/3 Colonist, 1865 10 10/2 Cariboo Sentinel, 1867 07 01/2
1868 05 05/1 and 3 1870 03 12 1872 03 02/3 1872 08 31/3 1872 09 28/3 1872 10 26/3
MAL69 MAL71.
NAME: Bland, Fred
Johnson.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE
ACTIVE: Whonnock.
BUSINESS ADDRESS-YEAR:
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR:
WORK
INTERVAL: 1899-1900.
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY:
Dempsey shows him in Winnipeg at 436 Main St. in 1888-1889 as a partner with H.
Veasey.
COLLECTIONS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: WIL99
HEN00 Dempsey (1978).
NAME: Blane, H.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Vernon.
BUSINESS
ADDRESS-YEAR:
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL: 1896.
STATUS:
Commercial (itinerant).
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: He visited Vernon in April
1896 and may be the same person as J.H. Blome.
COLLECTIONS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: Letter, Vernon Museum
& Archives to Mattison, 1981 11 06.
NAME: Blankenberg, John M.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Alaska Dawson, Yukon.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: Dawson/1901.
WORK INTERVAL: early 1900s.
STATUS: Commercial.
SUMMARY: His studio in one photograph has a sign
" Views of Alaska and Yukon Terr." This image was taken at a July 4 celebration
in an unidentified town (Yukon Archives photo no. 2973).
COLLECTIONS/FORMATS: UAA-Wahte Collection No. 64-34-32 (Yukon Archives photo
no. 2973).
IDENTIFYING MARKS: Print surface captioned and signed
" Blankenberg Photo."
REFERENCES: Yukon Archives photo no. 2973 Dawson
Directory & Gazetteer (1901).
NAME: Bliss, Henry Anson.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE/WHEN ACTIVE: B.C. Dawson,
Yukon/1897 10+-.
HOME ADDRESS/YEAR:
STATUS: Amateur.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: An accountant, he accompanied Minister of the Interior,
Clifford Sifton, and Major James Walsh, administrator of the Yukon district, on
a trip to the Yukon in 1897. Thomas Dufferin Pattullo, later Premier of British
Columbia, was also a member of this group and referred to Bliss's photographic
efforts twice in letters to his father.
In the 1901 Dawson business
directory, H.A. Bliss is listed as " asst license inspector" . Identified in two
photographs as " Capt. Bliss" (Yukon Archives photo no. 401 and 2056). In the
former he is seated in front of the Mining Inspector's cabin, Caribou Village,
Dominion Creek, 1900 the latter a group of men are watching gold ingots being
poured with Capt. Bliss seated wearing a brim hat and smoking a cigarette,
1900.
Photographs taken by Bliss were published in Green (1982).
COLLECTIONS/FORMATS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
BCARS George Robson Pattullo papers, Add.MSS. 1188 (letters dated 1897 11 18
and 1897 12 05) 1901 Canada Census Dawson Directory & Gazetteer
(1901).
Blome, J.W. see
Blome, John Henry.
NAME: Blome, John Henry.
VARIANT: Blome, J. W.
LIFE DATES: 18__ __ __-1902 02 25.
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH: Grand Forks.
WHERE ACTIVE: Ashcroft
Vernon Clinton Canmore?, AB Kamloops Grand Forks.
BUSINESS
ADDRESS/YEAR: Bridge St.? (Grand Forks)/1900.
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR:
WORK
INTERVAL: 1895-1900.
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: He
operated as a photographer in Ashcroft in the 1895-1896 period and appeared in
Kamloops for a short time beginning in November 1898. He also worked in Clinton
and travelled throughout the Okanagan and Nicola valleys. Dempsey shows a Blome
working as an itinerant in Canmore in September 1896. Blome's obituary called
him " an artist of more than average ability."
COLLECTIONS: BVA BVIPA.
IDENTIFYING MARKS: " J. H. Blome, Ashcroft, B.C." or " J. H. Blome, Clinton,
B.C." on either front or verso of print mounts.
REFERENCES: (Kamloops)
Inland Sentinel, 1898 11 04/4 1898 12 30/4 Grand Fork News,
1902 02 15/06 1902 03 01/03 Merchant's Agency Red Book (1896) HEN00
Dempsey (1978).
NAME: Bloomfield, Charles E.
LIFE
DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Vancouver.
HOME ADDRESS/YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL: 1900.
STATUS: Amateur.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: A member of the
Arts and Crafts Association, he
and his brother worked for their father in the stained glass firm of Henry
Bloomfield & Sons. James Bloomfield was also a member of the Arts and
Crafts Association.
COLLECTIONS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES:
BVAA, Arts and Crafts Association, Add.MSS. 142
Bingham (1985).
NAME: Boas, Franz.
LIFE DATES: 1858 07 09-1942
12 21.
BIRTHPLACE: Minden, Westphalia.
PLACE OF DEATH: New York, NY.
WHERE ACTIVE: Comox Cowichan.
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR: see references.
WORK INTERVAL: 1886-1902.
STATUS: Amateur (visit).
BIOGRAPHICAL
SUMMARY: Boas, regarded as one of the founders of modern anthropology, learned
photography in Berlin from Hermann Wilhelm Vogel (1854-1898), a photochemist
and inventor who worked with sensitizing photographic film to the colours of
the spectrum. On his first field trip to BC, Boas took pictures of the Cowichan
people. On a later trip in 1888-1889 it is believed he used the skills of
O. C. Hastings whom Boas also
employed in November 1894 at Fort Rupert. In 1888 Boas also hired
E. C. Brooks who was photographing canneries and
sawmills along the Skeena River. Boas knew
S. A. Spencer who had retired from
photography by the late 1880s, but had married Annie Hunt, a Kwakiutl and
sister of George Hunt, one of Boas' most
important informants and a photographer himself beginning in 1901. Hunt would
later figure prominently in E. S.
Curtis' Kwakiutl work. Boas was a member of the Jesup North Pacific
Expedition (1897-1902), which was sponsored by the American Museum of Natural
History.
COLLECTIONS: AMNH NAA.
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: Kroeber
(1943):5-26 Jacknis
(1984):2-60 Kendall
(1997)
Cole (1999).
NAME: Bodurtha, ---.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE:
Esquimalt Victoria.
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR: Zealous (HM Ship).
WORK INTERVAL: 1866-1869?.
STATUS: Institutional (visit).
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: The verso of a carte de visite portrait of Mrs. T. S.
Dobbin (nee Dorothea McKenzie) identified this man as a photographer aboard
H.M.S. Zealous which was based in Esquimalt during the mid to late
1860s.
COLLECTIONS: BVIPA.
IDENTIFYING MARKS: " Bodurtha,
Photographer, H.M. Ship 'Zealous' " on verso of carte-de-visite.
REFERENCES: BVIPA photo no. HP000409.
NAME:
Bolt, A. E.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Vancouver.
BUSINESS ADDRESS-YEAR:
HOME ADDRESS/YEAR:
520 Pender St./1897
WORK INTERVAL: 1897.
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: His address was a boarding house he probably worked for
one of the studios as a photographer.
COLLECTIONS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: WIL97.
NAME: Bonine, Robert K.
LIFE DATES: 1861 __
__-1923 09 11.
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH: Honolulu, HI.
WHERE
ACTIVE: Chilkoot Pass Trail Dawson various gold mines, Yukon.
WORK
INTERVAL: 1899-1900.
STATUS: Cinematographer (visit).
SUMMARY: Robert
K. Bonine (1861?-1923 09 11) was part of a Pennsylvania photographic family
centered in the Tyrone/Philadelphia area and not of Canadian origin as Canadian
film historian Peter Morris speculated in Embattled Shadows (reprint,
1992). Robert A. Bonine, his father, photographed the 1889 Johnstown Flood,
while a brother, Elias A. Bonine (1843-1916), travelled around the Western US
taking stereo photographs which his brother published.
According to
Morris, the Edison Manufacturing Company first distributed films in October
1897 that captured the excitement of preparing for the gold rush at a West
Coast seaport. At least three films on this topic were shown: " Loading Baggage
for Klondike, No. 6" " Horse Loading for Klondike, No. 9" and " S.S.
" Willamette" Leaving for Klondike" . A fourth film, " Klondike Gold Rush Lures
Thousands to Seek Fortunes" , may also have been shot by Bonine and released by
the Edison Manufacturing Company in 1898.
The remaining titles,
copyrighted in 1901 and possibly not distributed until then, all depict the
rugged conditions facing the gold seeker. Known titles described by film
historians Colin Browne and Dennis J. Duffy are " Burro Pack Train on the
Chilcoot Pass" " Miles Cannon Tramway" " Packers on the Trail" " Panoramic View
from the White Pass Railroad" " Rocking Gold in the Klondike" and " Washing Gold
on 20 Above Hunker, Klondike" . According to newspaper articles located by
researcher Michael Cirelli, some of these moving pictures were shot in the
summer 1899 by Bonine and Thomas Crahan for the 1900 Paris International
Exposition.
The White Pass & Yukon Railway film was a genre in itself
known as " Phantom Rides" and shot from a platform at the front of a locomotive.
The effect must have been thrilling to audiences a century ago as the train
silently roared through a tunnel then skirted along a testle clinging to the
edge of a bottomless canyon. Morris speculates that Bonine may also have
photographed similar rides through the Kicking Horse Canyon and other
precipitous scenery along the CPR in December 1901 upon his return from Asia.
Among the other Edison films shot by R.K. Bonine are the coronation of
King Edward VII in 1901, the " Arrival of the Governor General, Lord Minto, at
Quebec" in February 1902, and an earthquake-ravaged San Francisco in April
1906. He also took extensive footage for the Edison Manufacturing Company in
the Hawaiian Islands between June and August 1906 (Bonine filming at Waikiki
Beach, Oahu, 1906 photo no._, Baker Collection, Bishop Museum). Paradise of
the Pacific magazine reported that he returned to his home in Orange, New
Jersey, the company town founded by Edison. Bonine returned to Hawaii in 1908
and lived there until his death where he continued to photograph as well as
operate a movie theatre named after himself.
COLLECTIONS/FORMATS: Library
of Congress.
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: Klondike Nugget,
1899 07 22/4 1899 08 02/1 1899 08 23/6 1899 09 06/8 (all via M. Cirelli)
Nelson (19__) Browne (1979) Duffy (1986) Schmidt (1988) Morris (reprint,
1992).
NAME: Bonney, F. L.
LIFE
DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Brooklyn.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: Lake Front/1898.
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR:
WORK
INTERVAL: 1898-1899.
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: The
Brooklyn News ad read: " F.L. Bonney, Artistic Photographer, Views a
Specialty, Lake Front, Brooklyn, B.C."
COLLECTIONS:
IDENTIFYING
MARKS:
REFERENCES: Brooklyn News, 1898 10 08/3 (ad) WIL99.
NAME: Booen, J.O.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Chillwack.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: Wellington Ave./1895 10.
WORK INTERVAL: 1895-1896.
STATUS: Commercial (itinerant).
BIOGRAPHICAL
SUMMARY: He arrived in Chilliwack from Whatcom (Bellingham, WA) in 1895 and is known to have travelled to other B.C. communities. In August 1896 he was reported to be leaving for the Kootenay region. His studio portraits are identifiable by his backdrops: a Queen Anne style house in a pastoral setting and a blossoming tree.
COLLECTIONS/FORMATS: BCHM (320 portrait prints).
IDENTIFYING MARKS: "J.O. Booen, Chilliwack, B.C."; "Booen, Chilliwack"; "Olympic Studio, Snohomish, Wash."
REFERENCES: Chilliwack Progress, 1895 10 23; 1895 11 06; 1895 11 13; 1895 12 11; 1896 04 01; 1896 05 06; 1896 05 20; 1896 08 05; correspondence, Chilliwack Archives to Mattison, 1991 09 06; BC Archival Union List.
NAME: Boorne, William Hanson.
VARIANT:
Boorne & May.
LIFE DATES: 1859 12 03-1945 __ __.
BIRTHPLACE:
Bristol, UK.
PLACE OF DEATH: England.
WHERE ACTIVE: Calgary, Alta.
Vancouver.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: 149 Eleventh Ave. W.
(Vancouver)/1894-1895.
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR: same as business address.
WORK INTERVAL: 1890 05 1894-1895.
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL
SUMMARY: A major photographer of Alberta, Boorne opened his studio in Calgary
in 1886 with the help of his cousin Ernest Gundry May. The studio was known as
Boorne & May and branches were established at Banff and Edmonton. The
Calgary headquarters failed in 1893 and Edmonton branch manager
C. W. Mathers purchased his part of
the business. Boorne moved to Vancouver and was listed as a photographer for
one year. The following year his occupation was given as secretary to the B.C.
Exploration & Concession Co. Boorne visited Victoria and Vancouver in May
1890 to cover the visit of the Duke and Duchess of Connaught.
COLLECTIONS:
ACG AEPAA BVA QMMMCM.
IDENTIFYING MARKS: " B/M" monogram on print
" W.H.B." on print " Boorne & May, Calgary, N.W.T." on print " Boorne &
May, Calgary, N.W.T." may be embossed on print surface prints usually numbered
and captioned. Some prints are credited to C. W. Mathers) and Ernest Brown
(1877-1951).
REFERENCES: WIL95 Times, 1890 05 21/8
Colonist, 1890 05 22/1 Dempsey (1978)
Koltun (1984).
Boorne and May see Boorne,
William Hanson.
NAME:
Booth, R. C.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Vancouver.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: 59 Cordova St./1891 75
Cordova St./1891.
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR: 59 Cordova St./1892-1893.
WORK
INTERVAL: 1891.
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Booth went
from being a photographer to a building contractor and carpenter. His home
address in 1892-1893 was also the business address of
T. B. Straiton, but Booth was not
listed as working for Straiton.
COLLECTIONS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: HEN91 WIL91 WIL92 WIL93.
NAME:
Borel, F. A.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Dunnville, ON Vancouver.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: Dunnville,
ON/1896-1897 2 Cordova E. St. (Vancouver)/1897.
HOME ADDRESS/YEAR:
Commercial Hotel, Vancouver/1897.
WORK INTERVAL: 1897.
STATUS:
Commercial (assistant).
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: He apparently moved from
Dunnville, Ontario, to Vancouver and worked in the latter city at
White's Studio.
COLLECTIONS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: LOV97 WIL97.
NAME: Bovill, Wheatley.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: New Westminster.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: Columbia St., opposite Colonial Hotel/1886 Columbia
St. (Hamley Block)/1889.
HOME ADDRESS/YEAR: Douglas St./1889.
WORK
INTERVAL: 1886-1889.
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: One of
the partners in Thompson &
Bovill, his brother William was also a
photographer. The two had a brief association as the Bovill Brothers. Wheatley also worked as an architect
(Bovill & Ross) and real estate agent. He was married in August 1888 and
may have returned to England in 1896.
COLLECTIONS: see
Bovill Bros.
IDENTIFYING MARKS: see
Bovill Bros.
REFERENCES: WIL89 HEN90
News-Advertiser, 1888 08 07/6 1896 04 26/6.
NAME: Bovill, William.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: New Westminster.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: Columbia St., opposite Colonial Hotel/1886 Columbia
St. (Hamley Block)/1887.
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL: 1886-1887.
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: He was listed as a
photographer with Thompson &
Bovill in 1887. The previous year he had had a partnership with his brother
Wheatley as the Bovill
Bros.
COLLECTIONS: see Bovill Bros. and
Thompson & Bovill.
IDENTIFYING MARKS: see Bovill Bros. and
Thompson & Bovill.
REFERENCES: MAL87.
NAME: Bovill
Brothers.
WHERE ACTIVE: New Westminster.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR:
Columbia St., opposite Colonial Hotel/1886.
WORK INTERVAL: 1886 08-1886 10.
STATUS: Studio.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: An ad in a New Westminster paper
announced the opening of their studio in late August 1886. The partnership,succeeded by that of Thompson & Bovill late in October 1886, did
not remain in business long enough to be listed in the 1887 business directory.
COLLECTIONS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: British
Columbian, 1886 08 28/6 1886 10 28/3 (" Our New Art Gallery" , on Thompson & Bovill).
NAME: Boyden,
E.L.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE
ACTIVE: Nanaimo.
BUSINESS ADDRESS-YEAR:
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR:
WORK
INTERVAL: before 1886.
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: His
studio was purchased by J. W. Sampson
in 1886.
COLLECTIONS: BVIPA photo no. HP056918.
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: MAL87 (n.l.) WIL84 (n.l.) WIL89 (n.l.) Voters List, 1882,
1882-84, 1889 (n.l.) Howay & Scholefield
(1914):v.3 901.
NAME: Brand,
Frederick.
LIFE DATES: 1870 03 28 or 1871 10 __-1954 01 20.
BIRTHPLACE: Switzerland.
PLACE OF DEATH: Port Alberni.
WHERE ACTIVE:
Port Alberni.
BUSINESS ADDRESS-YEAR:
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR:
WORK
INTERVAL: 1898-1908.
STATUS: Amateur.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Brand had
lived in Port Alberni since 1892 and may have bought his camera in Alaska about
1898.
COLLECTIONS: BPAM BVIPA (copies).
REFERENCES: BVIPA Visual
Records Photographers File (gives birth date as 1870 03 28) BVIPA Death
Registration no. 1954-09-001455 (reel B13218) Letter, D. Bayne to Mattison,
1983 03 01 (gives birth date as 1871 10).
NAME: Brannon, Charlie.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: probably Chilkoot Pass
Trail.
WORK INTERVAL: before 12 September 1897.
STATUS: Amateur?.
SUMMARY: Tappan Adney purchased
his roll film camera and unused film on Adney's way back to Dyea from Sheep
Camp. Adney reported that Brannon was one of the " lucky men who arrived on the
Portland." Adney was unclear as to whether Brannon had struck gold, but
the young Brannon parted with his camera and film because it was " too much
trouble."
COLLECTIONS/FORMATS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES:
Adney (1900: 108).
NAME: Bridges, D.
(Miss).
VARIANT:
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF
DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Victoria.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: 76 Yates
St./1897 .
HOME ADDRESS/YEAR: 196 View St./1897.
WORK INTERVAL: 1897.
STATUS: Commercial (assistant).
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: She worked for
E. J. Eyres'
Imperial Studio.
REFERENCES: WIL97.
NAME: Bristow, ---.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE:
Victoria.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: Fort St., next to Central School/1862
10-?.
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL: 1862 10-?.
STATUS:
Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: He was a partner in
Blacklin & Bristow.
COLLECTIONS: see
Blacklin & Bristow.
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
see Blacklin & Bristow.
REFERENCES:
Colonist, 1862 10 23/2.
NAME:
British Columbia Art Store.
WHERE ACTIVE: New Westminster.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: 441 Columbia St./1891.
WORK INTERVAL: 1891.
STATUS: Studio.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: This studio/store was managed by
S. J. Thompson.
COLLECTIONS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: HEN91.
NAME: Brock, John Allan.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Belleville, ON Brandon,
MB Vancouver.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: Cordova and Abbott Sts.
(Vancouver)/1886 06 01-06 13 Cordova St. (Horne Block)/1886 07 23-08.
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL: 1886 06-08.
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: He established himself in Belleville, Ontario, about
1882, then moved to Brandon, Manitoba, about 1883. His next move took him to
Vancouver around May 1886 where he ran J. A. Brock & Co. in partnership
with H. T. Devine. Brock apparently
returned to Brandon on August 17, 1886 where he ran his old studio until the
late 1890s.
COLLECTIONS: see J. A.
Brock & Co.
IDENTIFYING MARKS: see
J. A. Brock & Co.
REFERENCES: Brandon Mail, 1883-1886 Vancouver News, 1886 05-08
Vancouver Daily Advertiser, 1886 06 Letter, Joan Schwartz to Mattison,
1978 01 04 Mattison (1979
11-12).
NAME: Brooks, Edward
Coley.
LIFE DATES: 18__ __ __-1908 02 15.
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE
OF DEATH: New York?, NY.
WHERE ACTIVE: Victoria Nanaimo Kaslo.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: Johnson and Cook Sts. (Victoria)/1887 164 Johnson
St. (Victoria)/1889-1891? 50 Victoria Cres. (Nanaimo)/1892-1900 Kaslo
(visit)/1893 06 30-07 Commercial St. (Nanaimo)/1898.
HOME ADDRESS/YEAR:
164 Johnson St./1889-1891? Clark's Lodging House (Nanaimo)/1892 50 Victoria
Cres./1895.
WORK INTERVAL: 1887-1900.
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: He established himself in Victoria circa 1887. In
September 1888 he travelled up the Fraser River to photograph the salmon
canneries and other views. Brooks remained in Victoria until moving to Nanaimo
around 1891-1892. He visited Kaslo for about a month in 1893 and returned to
Nanaimo. Primarily a portrait photographer, he also engaged in landscape work.
He had a partnership in Victoria as Brooks &
Berry. He attended the Guerin College of Photography in St. Louis, Missouri, early in 1902. According to the Nanaimo Free Press, he committed
suicide in New York State.
COLLECTIONS: BNCM BVIPA.
IDENTIFYING MARKS: " E. C.
Brooks, Photographer, Victoria, B.C." stamped on verso of print " E. C. Brooks,
Photographer, Victoria, B.C. 164 Johnston Street, Victoria, B.C." stamped on
verso of print mount " [E. C.] Brooks, 50 Victoria Crescent, Nanaimo, B.C." on
front of print mount.
REFERENCES: MAL87 WIL89 HEN90 WIL92 WIL93
WIL94 WIL95 HEN97 WIL97 HEN98 WIL99 HEN00 Voters List 1890 Voters List
1900 (Kaslo) (Victoria) Evening Standard, 1888 09 19/4 Kaslo
Claim, 1893 06 30/5 Professional and Amateur Photographer, v. 7, no. 4 (April 1902), College Notes: " ... Mr. Brooks of B.C., Canada have recently returned to their studios" Nanaimo Free Press, 1908/02/16 BVIPA Visual Records Photographer File (gives middle
name as Coley date and place of death unconfirmed by New York Times
Obituary Index).
NAME: Brooks &
Berry.
WHERE ACTIVE: Victoria.
BUSINESS ADDRESS-YEAR: 164 Johnson
St./1890s.
WORK INTERVAL: 1890s.
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: This was a partnership between E. C.
Brooks and a person identified only as Berry.
COLLECTIONS: BVIPA.
IDENTIFYING MARKS: " Brooks & Berry, 164 Johnston
Street, Victoria, - B.C." on front of print mount.
REFERENCES: BVIPA
Visual Records accession no. 198410-005.
Broune, Lothean
see Browne, John Lothian.
NAME: Brown, F. R.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Vancouver.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: 413 Seymour St./1892.
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL: 1892.
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY:
COLLECTIONS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: WIL92.
NAME: Brown, George Hay.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: New York City, NY
Washington, DC New Orleans, LA Victoria.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR:
Victoria Theatre Photographic Gallery, Government St., W. side near View St.
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL: 1864 09-?
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: While a G.H. Brown worked as a daguerreotypist in
1846 in Fredericton, New Brunswick, a newspaper article and ad described him
as
Formerly connected with Brady's extensive Photographic
Galleries of New York and Washington, U.S., and recently from New Orleans,
La.
Brown's work in New Orleans, according to photo-historian
Mike Tucker, was with Edward Jacobs and Walter Ogilvie their partnership ran a
studio called the National Art Union Photograph Gallery beginning in late
October 1863 and presumably lasting through the winter at 93 Camp St. Brown
probably left Victoria when Vaughan
advertised the Victoria Theatre
Photographic Gallery for sale in January 1865.
COLLECTIONS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: Colonist, 1864 09 07/2 (ad) and 3
(article) Evening Express, 1864 09 07/2 (ad) Letter, M. Tucker to
Mattison, 1981 10 12 Harper
(1955) Smith (1982):122 Palmquist & Kailbourn (2000) Palmquist & Kailbourn (2005).
Brown, John L. see
Browne, John Lothian.
Brown, Mrs. John Nelson Elliott see
Fenton, Faith.
NAME: Browne, John Lothian.
VARIANT:
Broune, Lothean Brown, John L.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF
DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: New Westminster Nicola Valley Kamloops.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: Columbia St. (New Westminster)/1885 Kamloops/1886-1891
435 Columbia St. (Wintemute Block, New Westminster)/1891 04-1892 07 437
Columbia St. (Ellard Block, opposite London House, New Westminster)/1892 07-?
24 Sixth St. (New Westminster)/1893-circa 1898.
HOME ADDRESS/YEAR: Eighth
St. (New Westminster)/1894 Seventh St., W. side between Fourth and Fifth Ave.
(New Westminster)/1894-1898.
WORK INTERVAL: 1885-circa 1898.
STATUS:
Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: After establishing a photo studio in New
Westminster around 1885 he moved to Kamloops and opened a studio there the
following year. He branched out into groceries and dry goods between 1889 and
1890. The 1889 directory showed him in partnership as
Reid & Browne, photographer. In
April 1891 he moved back to New Westminster and opened the
Sunbeam Photo and Art Company
Ltd. that December the Vancouver newspaper noted that
An entirely unique department will be stated in connection with
the gallery of art, in the shape of a circulating art library, containing the
latest press studies in oil and water colors, to be rented for
copying.
Browne appears to have remained in New Westminster as a
photographer until 1897 or 1898 when he returned to Kamloops and opened a
barbershop. The business directory of 1895 showed him in both Kamloops and New
Westminster as a barber and photographer respectively. A J. L. Browne also
showed up in Durham, Ontario, as a photographer in the 1897 business directory.
He was listed as photographer in New Westminster in the 1894 and 1898 List of
Voters. Browne served as an alderman in Kamloops in 1901, 1902 and 1907.
REFERENCES: WIL85 MAL87 WIL89 WIL89 HEN90 HEN91 WIL92 WIL93 WIL94
WIL95 LOV97 WIL97 WIL99 Voters List, 1890 (Nicola Valley, Broune, Lothean)
1894 1898 B.C. Commercial Journal, 1891 04 07/5
News-Advertiser, 1891 12 10/6 1892 07 20/6 Letter, Kamloops
Museum-Archives to Mattison, 1981 11 03.
NAME: Brownlee, J. H.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Victoria Vancouver.
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR: Winnipeg, MB.
WORK INTERVAL: 1890 05.
STATUS:
Amateur (visit).
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: The western agent for the
Dominion Illustrated magazine, Brownlee accompanied W. H. Boorne to BC to cover the visit of the Duke and
Duchess of Connaught.
COLLECTIONS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: Colonist, 1890 05 18/1 1890 05 26/8 Times, 1890 05
23/8 1890 05 29/8.
Brownlee, Mrs. K.G. (Mrs.
George)see Howell,
Kathleen Gertrude (Lena).
NAME: Bruce, Henry.
LIFE DATES: 1832 __ __-1910
01 28.
BIRTHPLACE: England.
PLACE OF DEATH: Vancouver.
WHERE
ACTIVE: London, UK.
WORK INTERVAL: Unknown.
STATUS: Commercial?.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: A veteran of the Crimean War, he operated a photo studio
in London before emigrating with the Royal Engineers in 1858 as a carpenter. It
is not known if he practiced photography while in BC.
COLLECTIONS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: BVIPA Death Registration no. 1910-09-128968
(reel B13097) Columbian, 1910 01 29/1 (obit.).
NAME: Bruce, Miner Wait.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Alaska.
HOME
ADDRESS-YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL: 1889+.
STATUS: Amateur
(photojournalist).
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: He first visited Alaska in May
1889 as a newspaper writer and struck up a friendship with
R.G. Willoughby of " Silent City"
fame. Along with fellow journalist L.B.
French, Bruce accompanied Willoughby to Muir Glacier that summer and
attempted his own photographs. At one point the Sitka newspaper reported Bruce
had lost his life, possibly by falling down a glacier crevass. Bruce, however,
survived and went on to write two books about Alaska Territory with details of
The Silent City.
COLLECTIONS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES:
Sitka The Alaskan, 1889 07 20/1
Bruce (1895)
Bruce (1899).
NAME: Buel, James William.
LIFE DATES: 1849
__ __-1920 __ __.
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE:
Northwest Coast (Victoria-Alaska) Canadian Pacific Railway line
(Vancouver-Lytton ?).
WORK INTERVAL: 1890 05-.
STATUS: Commercial (?)
(visit).
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Buel's photographic work in BC is
documented in his book America's Wonderlands. He states that he
travelled west in 1890 in a special railway car equipped for photographic work
(p. 11-15). He then travelled by steamer from Victoria to Alaska, departing
Victoria on May 2, 1890 on the Queen (p. 223+). He returned to Victoria on May
15 and made a week-long side trip on the CPR up the Fraser River (p. 235+). He
then returned to Seattle.
COLLECTIONS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: Buel (1894).
NAME: Buell, Oliver B.
LIFE DATES: 1844 __
__-1910 __ __.
BIRTHPLACE: Henry County, IL
PLACE OF DEATH: Montreal
(burial), PQ.
WHERE ACTIVE: Vancouver Port Moody New Westminster.
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR: New York City, NY
WORK INTERVAL: 1885-1886 1905.
STATUS: Commercial (visit).
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Buell, originally from
New York State, achieved prominence for a series of views showing military
preparations for the Riel Rebellion in 1885. He also photographed construction
work on the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) in the Rocky Mountains in the summer
of 1885. One newspaper article reported him as having visited B.C. with Lord
Lansdowne, the Governor-General, in 1885. In May 1886 he was photographing
along the main line of the CPR He arrived in Vancouver on August 28, 1886 by
steamer from New York, yet had a private railway car waiting for him in Port
Moody in which he and his wife travelled back east. He journeyed regularly with
his wife and often bore the title Professor. Along with taking photographs he
also gave lantern slide shows in Canada in the 1880s. He last returned to
western Canada in 1905, and among his stops was the Crows Nest District in southeastern BC. A portrait of Buell was found by the Glenbow Archives
and published in Photographic Canadiana (Mar.-Apr. 1987).
COLLECTIONS: OOA ACG QCRM.
IDENTIFYING MARKS: " O. B. Buell,
Photographer, New York" or " O. B. Buell, Photographer, Montreal" on stereograph
mounts (Canada Illustrated series) prints of troops at Riel Rebellion
copyrighted 1885 by " Prof. Buell."
REFERENCES: Vancouver News, 1886
08 29/2 and 4 Colonist, 1886 08 31/3 Columbian, 1886 09 07/3
and 08/3 Cranbrook Herald, 1905 06 29/4 (visits Crows Nest District) Hart (1983)
Buell (1984)
Cavell (1984) (gives life
dates) Hadley (1984)
Photographic Canadiana 12 no. 5 (Mar.-Apr. 1987):10 (portrait) OOA
National Photography Collection VF.
NAME: Burdon, Lance.
LIFE DATES: .
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE/WHEN ACTIVE: Atlin-Quesnel section
of the Yukon Telegraph Line.
WORK INTERVAL: by May 1900-1901.
STATUS:
Institutional (visit).
SUMMARY: His photographs were compiled into at
least two photograph albums illustrating work accomplished on the Atlin-Quesnel
section of the Yukon Telegraph line which was built by the federal Department
of Public Works for its Dominion Telegraph and Signal Service branch.
In
1902 a Seattle newspaper published his portrait and noted that " he was official
photographer for the Canadian Pacific's construction company." Among the views
illustrating an article by George F. Cotterill were railway and telegraph
construction scenes.
Among Burdon's interests was mountain climbing. In
1906 he was listed in the Seattle business directory as staying at mariners'
headquarters.
COLLECTIONS/FORMATS: BVA (album) BVIPA (albums).
IDENTIFYING MARKS: prints captioned and marked " Lance Burdon" .
REFERENCES:
Seattle Mail and Herald, 1902 12 20/50 (via M. Cirelli, 1996 10 30)
Richeson (1982):6-15 Letter,
David R. Richeson to Mattison, 1985 01 17 Letter, Michael Cirelli, 1996 10 30
(1906 Seattle business directory reference).
NAME: Burnham, John B.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: White Pass Trail.
WORK
INTERVAL: fall 1897-
STATUS: Photojournalist.
SUMMARY: He was
employed by the magazine Forest and Stream. His colleague
Tappan Adney described him in his book
and Adney quoted Burnham's own description of him from Forest and
Stream.
COLLECTIONS/FORMATS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES:
Adney (1900).
NAME:
Burton, Walter Francis.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF
DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Victoria.
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR: 60 Cook
St./1898-1899.
WORK INTERVAL: 1897.
STATUS: Amateur.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Some of his photographs of Victoria golf courses were
reproduced in Western Recreation. The business directories and voters
lists listed him as a capitalist and/or gentleman.
COLLECTIONS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: HEN98 WIL99 Voters List, 1898 1903
Western Recreation (1897 04):14-15.
NAME: Busby, Edward Scott.
LIFE DATES: 1862?
__ __-1952 02 01.
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH: Montreal, PQ.
WHERE ACTIVE: Bennett.
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR: Skagway, AK or YT/late 1890s.
WORK INTERVAL: 1899 07 06.
STATUS: Amateur.
SUMMARY: A Canadian
customs official posted to the Klondike during the gold rush, he photographed
the last spike ceremony for the White Pass & Yukon Railroad on July 6,
1899. E.A. Hegg, who also photographed the event, captured Scott and two other
photographers at work. In this photograph, Busby appears on the wharf with a
handheld camera. Busby retired to Vancouver in 1930 and moved to eastern Canada
in 1945. Busby identified himself in a souvenir album published by Hegg (1900)
which Busby presented to the Rev. B.A. Appleyard (BVIPA copy).
COLLECTIONS/FORMATS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES:
Hegg (1900):41 Polk 1903
Gazetteer Directory Province, 1952 02 04/4 and 02 07/22 (obits.).
NAME: Bush, Henry.
LIFE DATES: 1830? __
__-____ __ __.
BIRTHPLACE: Germany?
PLACE OF DEATH: San Francisco?,
CA.
WHERE ACTIVE: Victoria San Francisco, CA Germany.
WORK
INTERVAL: 1862 09.
STATUS: Commercial (visit).
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY:
According to photohistorian Peter Palmquist, he left Germany in the late 1840s
where he had been a photographer and eventually settled in gold rush San
Francisco as a daguerreotypist in the late 1850s. He remained in photography
until 1872. His visit to Victoria was for a photograph to be rendered into a
painting. Bush's autobiographical book of poetry, The Harp of the Day
(1865), has him travelling to BC to participate in the Cariboo gold rush.
COLLECTIONS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS: " H. Bush, Photographer" on front of
carte-de-visite.
REFERENCES: Colonist, 1862 09 03/3
Palmquist (1980 07)
Palmquist (1983
04-06):91-5.
Busker, Arthur see
Butcher, Arthur.
Buskera, Arthur see
Butcher, Arthur.
NAME: Butcher, Arthur.
VARIANT: Busker, Arthur Buskera, Arthur.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Victoria.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR:
56 Fort St./1891 95 Douglas St./1892-1895 202 Fort St/.1897.
HOME
ADDRESS/YEAR: 58 Quadra St./1890-1891 103 Pandora Ave./1892 Stanley
House/1893 10 Stanley Ave./1894-1895 202 Fort St./1897.
WORK INTERVAL:
1890-1897.
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: He worked for
Savannah & Co. in 1891, then
managed his own studio, Butcher & Co.
COLLECTIONS: BVIPA.
IDENTIFYING MARKS: see Butcher
& Co.
REFERENCES: HEN90 HEN91 WIL92 WIL93 WIL94 WIL95 WIL97.
NAME: Butcher & Co.
WHERE
ACTIVE: Victoria.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: 95 Douglas St.?/1892-1895 202
Fort St.?/1897.
WORK INTERVAL: 1892?-1897?.
STATUS: Studio.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: This was managed by Arthur
Butcher.
COLLECTIONS: BVIPA.
IDENTIFYING MARKS: " Butcher &
Co., 95 Douglass [sic] St., Victoria, B.C." on front of cabinet portrait.
REFERENCES: BVIPA Visual Records accession no. 198303-021.
NAME: Buxton, Bertram H.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH: Surrey, UK?.
WHERE ACTIVE: Masset.
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL: 1882.
STATUS: Amateur (visit).
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: He was possibly the first " tourist" to photograph the
Haida. His sister's son described him as a " keen amateur photographer." He took
five views of Masset.
COLLECTIONS: AMNH OONMM.
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: Blackman
(1981):62-3 BVIPM Ethnology Division.