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Photographic View Album by R. Maynard, Artist

File consists of one album containing 62 albumen photographic prints mounted on 31 pages. Images depict landscape views that document the coast and interior of British Columbia, as well as Banff, Alberta. Each page contains a title and photographer’s name, but no date. Photographs were likely produced during photographic tours that Richard and Hannah Maynard conducted to document the construction of the transcontinental railway, including the Canadian Pacific Railway (C.P.R.) during the early-to-late 1880s. Images include views of railroad stations, bridge and trestle construction, pathways and routes, field portraits, and settlements including Songhees, Victoria, Esquimalt, Nanaimo, Vancouver, New Westminster, Kamloops, and Banff, Alberta. Landscape views include the Salmon, Harrison, Fraser, Thompson, Columbia, “Illcillewait” and Bow Rivers; Stoney Creek; Devil Lake Creek; Summit Lake; Eagle Pass; Syndicate Peak; “Mount Caroulle”; Kicking Horse Pass; Mount Stephen; Mount Castle; Mount Edith; the Cascade Mountains; Tunnel Mountain; Devil Lake Canon; and the Three Sisters. Several geographical formations such as “Lady Franklin Rock, Fraser River” are identified as well as a number of parks, including Harrison River Hot Springs and Hot Springs at the National Park (Banff). There is one image identified as the coal mining district of Anthracite, Banff. The Maynards commercially sold their C.P.R.-related photographic views to the public. They were available for order or purchase at Mrs. R. Maynard’s Photographic Gallery and other commercial operations in Victoria and elsewhere in BC.

Maynard, Richard

Colonial administration field photographs of Richard Maynard (Department of Indian Affairs tours of inspection)

This series consists of 320 field photographs created by Richard Maynard during colonial government tours of inspection of Indigenous communities between 1873 and 1892. Images were intended to document elements of Indigenous peoples' lives such as demographics, fishing and food harvesting practices, community locations and site features, governance, clothing, and material culture; colonial government-to-Indigenous government relationships; and perspectives of colonial government administration. The images were used in colonial government reports and communications and to expand Maynard's portfolio of commercial images.

The series has been arranged into four sub-series:

  • -MS-3378.A Tours of inspection aboard H.M.S. Boxer (1873-1874)
  • -MS-3378.B Alaska trips (1879, 1882, 1887, 1892)
  • -MS-3378.C Haida Gwaii trips (1884, 1888)
  • -MS-3378.D Miscellaneous field photography ([187-]-[189-])

Maynard, Richard