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Colonel Richard Clement and Mary Moody scrap album

The series is a photograph album of 130 pages containing 100 images, two loose prints, and one small painting. The photographs are predominantly albumen, with two salted paper prints. Many images have pencil annotations, some photographs have been cut into geometric shapes for presentation. The photographs are pasted onto scrap album paper, the album is sewn cardboard covered in faux leather.

The one hundred images contained in this scrap album are a disparate collection documenting Col. Moody's professional travels as an officer of the British colonial empire, and his personal travels and family life as a 19th century British patrician. Many photos have penciled captions in Mary Moody's handwriting. The album begins with a series of purchased images documenting the Moody family's European grand tour. Common for the era, images depict the Loire Valley and Brittany; Belgium and Northern Italy. Four images depict scenes from mid-century, colonial British Columbia reflecting his private life and professional duties as Commander of the Columbia Department of the Royal Engineers for the Crown colony of British Columbia. Of note are two photographs depicting unidentified First Nations' men thought to be photographed near New Westminster; among the earliest photographs of indigenous peoples in the colonial northwest of North America. The album also contains purchased images of Japan; photos taken across mid-19th century England and Scotland; and portraits of friends and associates. The album also contains a pencil sketch by Sarah Crease of the Moody home in New Westminster dated 1863 and a cutting from the London Illustrated News.

New Westminster land sales

The item is a record book containing entries for lands sold in New Westminster and a script and claim book. The first half of the volume is arranged by block, range and section number and includes the name of purchasers, acreage, dates and amounts of payment and other remarks, 1861-1865.
The second half of the volume is a script and claim book for the lower mainland area, 1859-1862. The left hand side of each page in the volume lists the issuance of script including entry number, acreage, date, person to whom script was issued and nature of work done. The right hand side of each page lists land claims including entry number, acreage, date, person and situation of land.

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

Sale book, New Westminster

The item is a volume used to record sales of property in New Westminster sold by public auction in February 1861. The entries list block, range, name of purchaser, amount paid and remarks.

Water frontages, New Westminster

The item is a preprinted survey book used to record sales of water frontages in New Westminster sold by public auction in December 1860. The entries list block, lot, name of lessee, amount paid and remarks.