Camera Workers: The British Columbia, Alaska & Yukon Photographic
Directory, 1858-1950 - O - Volume 1 (1858-1900)
© 1999-20075 By
David Mattison
Updated: 2006.08.08.
NAME: Obren, John.
VARIANT: O'Brien [?], John.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE:
Victoria.
BUSINESS ADDRESS-YEAR:
HOME ADDRESS/YEAR: Superior
St./1874.
WORK INTERVAL: 1874.
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL
SUMMARY:
COLLECTIONS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: Voters
List, 1874.
NAME:
Ogilvie, William.
LIFE DATES: 1846 __ __-1912 __ __.
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Railway Belt (BC) BC
Yukon Territory .
HOME ADDRESS/YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL: 1885-1900+.
STATUS: Institutional (visit).
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: A Dominion Land
Surveyor, he was equipped with a camera as early as 1885. In 1887 he was
provided with an " Ideal Camera & lens" at a cost of $72. Ogilvie served as
Commissioner of Yukon Territory from 1898 to 1901.
COLLECTIONS: OOA.
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: OOA ArchiviaNet Web site.
NAME: Okamura, Paul Louis
(Tsunenojo Oyama).
VARIANT: O'Kamura, P. Okamura, Oyama, Tsunenojo.
LIFE
DATES: 1865 __ __-1937 03 26.
BIRTHPLACE: Katamonmaemachi, Shiba-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
PLACE OF DEATH: New Westminster.
WHERE ACTIVE: New
Westminster.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: 99 Fourth St., corner Royal Ave./1901.
HOME ADDRESS/YEAR: same as business address.
WORK INTERVAL: 1893-1937.
STATUS: Amateur Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: According
to Takata, he landed in Vancouver in 1891 and moved to New Westminster where he
learned photography. He was listed as an artist prior to 1901, so it is
probable he was photographing as an amateur in conjunction with his art work
before 1900. He was listed in the 1895 directory as a professor of drawing at
St. Louis College, New Westminster.
For a full account of his life and caree, see Jim Wolf's article, " Through Japanese Eyes: The Portrait Studio of Paul Louis Okamura" (British Columbia History, v. 39, no. 4, 2005, p. 18-23).
COLLECTIONS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: WIL95 HEN97 WIL97 HEN98 HEN99 HEN00 HEN01
Takata (1983):64 Wolf (2005) Wolf (2006).