Richard Maynard (Canadian 1832-1907) ‘City of Victoria, British Columbia, 1876’
City of Victoria, British Columbia,1876
photograph depicting Victoria harbour, signed under mat "Maynard, 1876." and titled "City of Victoria, British Columbia"
Richard Maynard is known for his landscape views of BC, coastal Alaska and the Bering Sea. Born in Cornwall, England in 1832, he met and married Hannah Hatherly in 1852, and the couple immigrated to Canada where they settled in Bowmanville, Ontario. Richard left for the Fraser River Gold Rush in 1859 and in 1862 settled in Victoria with Hannah and their four children. Richard headed North to the Stickeen Valley while Hannah set up a photographic studio in his absence, instructing Richard on his return. Richard’s his first recorded photograph is a panorama of Victoria from 1864.
Richard travelled extensively throughout the West documenting with his camera including several trips to Vancouver Island, Alaska and the Bering Sea. In 1880 or 1881 he won a government contract to photograph the construction of the CPR between Port Moody and Eagle Pass. On July 4, 1886, Richard documented the first passenger to reach the Pacific Coast at Port Moody. The following year he photographed Vancouver, which had been almost completely destroyed by fire the previous year. Richard retired in 1890 and died in Victoria in 1907, and Hannah worked until her retirement in 1912, and died in 1918.
Size: 6.25 h x 27 w in
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