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#219

Date: [N.D.] c. 1868*
Source: Columbian Newspaper
Photographer: _________

Information: ________ *According to Archie Miller, curator of Irving House, this photograph would have been taken in the late 1860's. Capt. William Irving was born in 1816 and died in 1892.

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#108

Date: [N.D.] c. 1883 (?)
Source: New Westminster Museum
Photographer: F.L. Hacking, p.

Information: "Mr. McDonald, first white man in New Westminster" *D.G.F. McDonald (?) a civilian surveyor was at work on the site of the future city before R.E's arrived. If this is D.G.F. McDonald, Hacking must have copied a portrait - McDonald returned to Britain.
*Duncan George Forbes McDonald. 1823(?) - 1884. See R920.01 L516c "Dictionary of Nat. Biog." Vol.XXXV, p.33.

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#1038

Date: N.D. c.1885 (?)
Source: Columbian Newspaper (copy)
Photographer: Spencer and Hastings, Victoria

Information: "Mrs. McAllaister (sic) had a store on Columbia St. years ago."* *J.P.D. Morin, 12155 91st, Edmonton Alberta, gave this information on original photo. 1885 Directory for Victoria lists "Spencer and Hastings" artistic photographers, Fort St."
The 1882 and 1887 directories list one or the other, but not in partnership.

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#2927

Date: c.1898
Source: *Eileen French (Mrs. Glen E. French)
Photographer: The original photo had on it "S.J. Thompson, New Westminster." This may have been a self-portrait.

Information: A well-known photographer - S.J. Thompson. We have a number of his photographs in our collection. Stephen Joseph Thompson arrived in New Westminster, it is believed, from New York City. He set up a partnership with one or more of the Bouill brothers as Thompson and Bouill. In 1889 he was operating on his own. In December 1897 he established a branch studio in Vancouver. His New Westminster studio was destroyed in the great fire of 1898. For awhile after the fire he maintained both a Vancouver and a New Westminster studio. Business address: Columbia Street (Hamley Block) / 1885? - 1890; 620 Columbia Street / 1890 - 1898; 610 Granville Street (Vancouver) / 1897 -1900 +. He was born on May 27th, 1929 and died on August 7th, 1929. He married on December 29, 1897 to Constance Victoria Clute in New Westminster. Thompson was considered a commercial photographer equally at home in portrait and landscape work. See R770.92 M435c B.C. - "Camera Workers" by David Mattison.
*the donor of the photo is an ancestor of S.J. Thompson. She wrote that Stephen Joseph Thompson was the son of Jane (Dawson) & John Thompson, all born in South Monaghan, Ontario. The book "Camera Workers" says he was born in either Baillieboro, Ontario or Peterboro, Ontario.

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