This is a list of professional photographers operating in Manitoba, between 1858 and the present, who created photographs in a variety of formats including tintypes, carte-de-visite, cabinet cards, stereoviews, and postcards. It includes both studios and individuals. Brief biographical sketches are provided for some photographers.
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Photographer / Studio
Town(s)
Period
John James Abbott (1840-1914)
1882-1906
Angelo Accetti (c1888-1956)
1920-1954
Advance Fotos
Winnipeg (341 Main Street)
circa 1916
Advance Photo Company
circa 1916
H. Gordon Aikman (1914-2002)
?
Peter John Alekno (?-?)
1907
Fred Grant Alexander (1881-1907) - See Shaw & Alexander
c1901
William Alexander
1917-1925
Karl Drago Alkier (1926-2008)
1963-1994
Hugh Allan (1917-2004)
?
Charles Thomas Allbutt (1857-1921)
1889-1912
Howard H. Allen
Brandon (906 Rosser Avenue), Dauphin, Gilbert Plains, Grandview, Roblin
1911-1925
J. F. Allen
1890s-1907
Roy Allen
1903-1905
American Art
Winnipeg (207 Logan Avenue)
circa 1917
1885-1899
Joseph Anderson
1889-1891
Amedee Archambault
1906-1907
John D. Argo
1890
Charles L. Armstrong
1879-1883
Art Craft Studio [see George Francis Penny]
1917-1923
J. T. Ashley
1892-1894
Ron Ayers
c1968-1990s
James Aylesworth
1890
B
Samuel H. Bagshaw
1888-1907
Walter Barrie (1848-1935)
1906-1935
Baldwin & Blondal
1891-1900
W. Cook Baldwin
1888-1890
Ronald Baleja
?
c1989
Harry Barber
1883
William G. Barclay
1880-1890s
Alonzo Barnard (1817-1905)
Red River Settlement (Winnipeg)
1854-1863
F. Barret
?-1888
W. Barrie
1884
George Alfred Barrowclough (1870-1950)
1897-1906
Alexander E. Barton (1863-?)
1899-1906
William John Bates (1876-1943)
Itinerant
1906-1910
Bauslaugh & Taylor
1911-1915
Peter Allan Bauslaugh (1856-1934)
1881-1934
A. G. Baxter
1922-1924
William Sylvester Alpheus “Billy” Beal (1874-1968)
?
Thomas Beale
1899-1901
G. Spalding Beales
1870
E. J. Beaucage
1930s
1901-1910
Louis Cecil Bellsmith
1909-1912
Kathleen M. Bennett (1882-?)
?
?
Bennetto & Company
1882-1906
Israel Bennetto (1860-1946)
1880-1906
Israel Bennetto Jr. (1884-1956)
George Bentley (1869-?)
?
Wesley D. Bentley (1871-?)
?
Bentley Portrait Company
1902-1910
C. C. Bergman
1919
Berlin Portrait Company
1895-1912
Bernstein & Walters
Winnipeg (576 Main Street & Corner of King & Dufferin Sts.)
c1910 (1904-1918)
J. C. F. Berst
1885
Best & Blondal
1887
Best & Brother
1882-1883
Best & Company
1889-1890
Arthur “Art” Best
c1967-c1977
Harry Best
?
James Best
?
John Best (1859-?)
1888
Robert Best
?
William Best
?
William R. Bestard
1912-1915
Bingham & Thom
Itinerant
?
Frederick V. Bingham (c1855-1929)
Itinerant
1881-1886
Birnie & Company
1899-1900
George Birnie
1900
Harry C. Birnie
1899-1904
Thomas Carfrae Birnie (1864-1911)
1892-1904
Sigurdur Josua Bjornsson (1862-1938) [1]
Dakota Territory
1885-1888
Cuthbert Blackett
1887
Edwin Clay Blair (1862-1945)
1908
Frank D. Blakely (1865-1918)
c1897-1918
Bland & Company
1889
Fred Johnson Bland
?
Thomas Harold Bland
?
Noah Bleavins
1912
Jon A. Blondal (1862-1938) [1]
1888
John Henry James Blondin
1889
BonTon Gallery
1900
Henry J. “Harry” Bowles (1855-1944)
1879
Boynton & Eaton
1911-1915
George Boynton
1911-1915
Klaas W. Brandt (1876-1954)
1899-1900
J. W. Bridgman
1882-1883
Brigden’s Limited
?
Sidney Brightman
1910
Brindle & Dowling
1894
Brock & Company
1884-1900
John Allan Brock (1848-1929)
1882-1895
Brown’s System of Photographing
1899-1902
Albert E. “Bert” Brown (?-1916)
?-1916
H. W. Brown (?-?)
1870
W. Brown
1925
1905-1910
Harry H. Bryant (1866-1942)
1911-1912
Margaret Jane “Nellie” Bryant (c1864-1947)
1907-1908
Donald M. Buchanan (1871-?)
1900-1904
Daniel Budiniski
1912
Burgess & James
1907-1909
Andrew Burgess
1911
Frederick G. Burgess (see J. F. Mitchell)
1901-1906
George Burgess
1910-1911
Charles E. Burrows
1910
C
C. B. W. Photographers
1912
Gerald Stuart “Gerry” Cairns (1933-2023)
40 years
Campbell’s Art Gallery
Winnipeg (see W. J. Crooks)
1904-1912
A. M. Campbell
1887-1892
Edwin J. Campbell
1899
Hector A. Campbell
1908-1919
John Campbell
1900-1903
John A. “Jack” Campbell (1872-1963)
?
Malcolm L. Campbell
1905-1914
Neil Campbell
?
c1966
Canadian Engraving & Publishing Company
1906-1908
Carbon Studio
1904
A. Vance Card
?
Card & Parsons
1879
Joseph Carey
1878-1879
Rosetta Ernestine Watson Carr (c1845-1907)
1883-1899
William Caswell (1838-1910)
1877-1880
Frank Cave
?
?
Central Photo Studio (see H. B. Mondin)
Winnipeg [598 Main Street]
1925-1942
Charach & Bernstein
Winnipeg [576 Main Street]
1910
Charach Studios
Winnipeg [264 Portage Avenue]
c1947-?
Barney Charach (1922-2013)
1947-2007
David Samuel Charach (1890-1969)
?-1969
Irvine Charach (1903-1949)
1928-1949
Neil Charach (1935-2024)
?
Paul Charach (1925-1992)
?-1992
Theodore H. J. Charmbury
1905
Edward J. B. Chausse
1918
William B. Cheshire
1891-1894
Chic Photo Studio
1907
John Harry Chic (1918-1990)
1948-1990
c1910
Fred Clark
1914
John A. Clark
1889-1897
F. Clarke
?
Frederick Arnold “Fred” Clarke (1917-2013)
?-1980s
John Henry Clarke (1860-1923)
1899-1910
R. K. Clavering
1887
William D. Clement (1864-?)
1896-1902
Endre Johannesen Cleven (1874-1916)
1905-1909
F. W. Clingan
1900
John Tyrell Coan (1875-1943)
1915-1925
Coan & Robertson
1921-1922
John B. Cole
1912-1915
Cole’s Photographic Studio
1913-1914
Reginald Merrick Coleman (1891-1963)
c1940s
Alfred Colliard
1908
William Frederick Colley
1894-1902
Alfred Collier
c1890
Color Photo Company
c1930s
Thomas R. Colpitts
1883-1887
Edwin Lincoln Cooke (1883-1957)
Winnipeg (217 Montgomery Block)
c1930
H. W. Cooke
1911-1912
J. F. Cooke
1880
A. D. Cooper
1883-1900
E. O. Cooper
1906-1907
George Stuart Grenfell Ironside Cotter (1915-2011)
1967-2011
John R. Cotton
1896-1899
Percy Coultas
1913-1925
William Baxter Cowe (1841-1908)
1889-1908
Craig & Spriggs
1917-1919
William James Crooks (1877-1935)
1910-1935
Barlow Cumberland
c1894
D
Mattie Dalziel (1880-?)
?
?
George Danellion
1894-1896
Anatole D’Aoust (1883-1972)
?
Davey & Grestock
1900
Davidson Brothers
1892-1911
Winnipeg (106 Osborne Street)
1938-c1972
Davidson Studio
1915-1923
Davidson & Gowen
1911-1914
Alexander Davidson (1865-1928)
1896-1923
Alvin Davidson
1905
Frank Davidson
1904-1909
George Davidson
1889-1907
John Davidson (1883-?)
1904
Mary Davidson
1906-1908
W. A. Davidson
1914-1925
Thorsteinn Davidsson (1871-1953) [1]
1891-c1893
Fred D. Davies
?
Hugh Dempster (1840-?)
?
?
Leo Derechin (1875-1966)
Winnipeg (405 Selkirk Avenue)
1920s
F. Deschouwer
1900
Claude P. “Dett” Dettloff (1899-1978)
1925-1936
Harry T. Devine
1885-1886
Perry Diamond
?
c1978
Dierlamm & Company
c1895
Harold Leslie Doherty (1929-2008)
?
J. H. Doherty (1845-?)
Itinerant, Portage la Prairie, Winnipeg
1876-1882
Victor A. Driver
1882
Mike Dubchak
1935-1957
Simon Duffin (1843-1900)
James Duggan
1873-1874
Cleophas G. Durocher (1855-?)
1880-1882
George E. Durrant (?-?)
1908-1915
E
William Eakin
1980s-2010s
Leslie Witmer Eaton (1874-1923)
1911-1912
T. Eaton Postcard/Photo Studio
1908-c1968
F. M. Edey
1880
Dorothy Helen Dagg Edwards (1929-1994)
1983-1989
John Boyd Edwards (1923-1983)
1952-1983
Percy Charles Edwards (1878-1952)
1904-1952
Elite Galleries
1883
Elite Photographic Studio
1908
J. H. Elliott
1899
John M. Elliott
1901-1903
Charles Ellis (1844-1921)
1880-1881
Empire Photo Studio
Winnipeg (494, 516, 518, 530 Main)
1944-c1970
Eureka Photo Post Card Company
?
European Photographic Studio
1907-1910
Tim Evans
?
c1986
Excelsior Art Gallery
1886
F
Henry D. Fast (1894-1977)
?
?
Marlene Fast
?
c1988
James H. Fenton
1907-1911
David Fieldman
?
?
H. N. Finch
1904-1915
William B. Finley
1914-1915
Bert J. Flynn (Winnipeg Photo Company)
Winnipeg (422½ Portage Avenue)
1911-1913
Henry Flynn (Winnipeg Photo Company)
Winnipeg (422½ Portage Avenue)
1911-1913
1909-1932
Lewis Benjamin “Lou” Foote (1873-1957)
1901-1947
Arthur Lionel Forde (1879-1952)
1910-1916
Forde Photo Studio (see Arthur Lionel Forde)
1915-1916
Terence Joseph Fowler (1925-2000)
1961-1996
William Foxall
1900-1901
Johan de Frament
1900
Carl K. Frey
1906
Friesen & Dueck
1910-1912
Charles Fritz (c1854-?)
?
?
H. B. Fryer
1900
E. A. Fulkerson
1906
Jean Fulkerson
1907
Johann E. Funk (1878-1968)
?
?
G
Louis de Galembert
?
?
H. W. Gallichan
1921-1923
M. Garrett
1883
W. C. R. Garrick
1900
Garrioch & Freelhard
1897-1899
Harry W. Gauld
Brandon (914 Rosser Avenue)
1912-1914
Gene Gauthier Photo Studio
Winnipeg (133 Marion Street / 489 Giroux Street)
1947-1958
Gauvin, Gentzel & Company
1905-c1918?
George Alfred Gauvin (1863-1933)
1905-?
Adolph E. Gentzel (1869-?)
1905-?
J. A. Gerhart
1903-c1916
German Art Studio (see Benzion Shapira)
1909-1910
Adolph Gescheit
1907
Gibson & Metcalf Company
1908
Douglas H. Gibson
c1909
John William Gibson (1872-1959)
1906-c1912
Ginther & Friesen
1894
Goodall & Love
1906
Goodall Photo Company
1909-1910
George Wilfred Goodall (1872-1970)
1901-1912
Gud Goodmanson
1899
R. Goodwin
1900
Fred Gorrill
1905
W. J. Gould
Frank Henry Gowen (1877-1946)
1905-1913
Johnson Graham
1888
Thomas J. Graham
1884-1888
T. L. Graham
1899
George Grant
1908-1912
P. W. Gray
1900
Samuel Gray (?-?)
1895-1899
1900-1904
Percy H. Greene
1918-1922
Albert Burton Gresham (1905-1941)
?
Howard Grestock (1879-1917)
1899-1900
Alex Griffin (?-?)
c1923
James Grummett
1886-1892
Cecil Francis Guest (1874-1945)
Pembina Crossing (1900-1906), Manitou (1906-1908)
1900-1908
Joseph Guilbault
1904-1905
H
Sigfried Hagen
1914-1915
James Deakin Hall (1854-1936)
1882-1887
Robert C. Hall
1896-1902
1882-1887
Hamiota Arts Studio
?
A. G. Hamm
1900-1902
Peter G. Hamm (1883-1965)
1900-1950
George A. Hanes
1883
S. Hardy [see Robinson Studio]
?
?
Septimus Hardy
1916-1917
George Harding Harris (1900-1976)
various
Thomas Harrison Jr.
1889-1890
Hartney Photo Studio - see John McArter
?-1904
A. J. Hayes
?
?
Frank Jay Haynes (1853-1921)
1881
D. Henderson
1887-1888
Harry Henfrey (1885-1949)
1924-1925
Aubrey Randolph Henson (1884-1965)
Newdale, Minnedosa, Wasagaming [Riding Mountain National Park]
1911-?
Cornelius C. Hiebert
1918-1922
N. W. Higgins
1894
Humphrey Lloyd Hime (1833-1903)
Red River Settlement (Winnipeg)
1858
Hollywood Studios
Winnipeg (280 Portage Avenue)
?
Francis J. S. Holmes (1909-1991)
?
?
Albert V. Holtby
?
?
William J. Honey
1895-1909
Charles Honisback
?
?
William Houston
1907-1908
D. Howarth
1908
Charles Percival Howden (1878-1951)
1908-1916
Howlett Euclid Studio
?
Hoy’s Photo Studio
Brandon (7 Tenth Street)
1950s
Ralph Harper Hoy (1910-1986)
Brandon (7 Tenth Street)
1950s
Hudson’s Bay Photo Parlors
1886
Samuel Hudson
1899-1900
Arthur Henry Hulme
1899-1901
E. Hunter
c1885
Paul William Hunter (?-1988)
1931-c1966
I
Imperial Photo Company
1914
S. N. Ingo
1888
William Howard Irwin (1853-1951)
1882-1901
J
G. J. Jackson
1883-1886
Richard Jackson
1900
W. Jackson
c1909
William J. Jackson
1896-1901
Jacobson Studio
c1949
George James (1866-1963)
1907-1932
Peter Jansen
?
c1982
James W. Jarrett
1911-1919
William Jefferson
1881-1887
John Sampson Jenkins (1861-1936)
1909-1930
Caroline “Carrie” Jenkins (1889-?)
1930-1964
Ernest Jerrett (1885-1958)
Brandon, Wasagaming [Riding Mountain National Park]
1931-1958
Cyril Jessop (1881-1967)
1905-1960
1880
c1881
J. Johnston
1881
William Johnston (?-?)
1881-1892
Jones Brothers
1886-1888
Charles S. Jones
?
John Wallace Jones (1856-1938)
?
Thomas McNabb Jones (1859-1918)
1883-1887
Edmond George Justement (1872-?)
1905-1908
K
Henry Daniel Kalen (1928-2004)
?
Frances Jennet Kasper (1933-2023)
1960s
Karl’s Studio (see Karl Drago Alkier)
Dauphin
1963-1994
Ernest C. Kaye (c1869-1917)
1906-1917
Miss D. Kerfoot
1879-1882
M. Kerfoot
1878-1922
Bruce Kingsford
1906
T. S. Kitson
c1908
Samuel Klein
Winnipeg (330 Selkirk Avenue)
c1953-c1970
Klein’s Modern Photo Studio
Winnipeg (330 Selkirk Avenue)
c1953-c1970
Peter H. Klippenstein (1878-1960)
1900-1930
Alfred Knowles
1893-1894
Knowles Brothers
?
Knowling & Sims
c1907
George Knowling
?
?
Arnold Kohnen (1850-1931)
1895-1904
S. Kohler
1900
Demitro Kotlarenko
1912
Mrs. C. F. Kreiger
1892-1900
Ernie Kroeger
1980s
Gordon Kyle
1912-c1918
L
Lafayette Studio
Winnipeg (489 Portage Avenue)
?
Charles McKenzie Lambly (1893-1940)
?
M. Landry
1900
Christopher Lane
?
?
Ernest L. Lane
1903-1904
Joseph Langevin (1830s-1882)
1864-1870s
C. A. Laroie
1905-1908
Ryder Larsen (c1850-?)
Red River Settlement (Winnipeg)
1866-1870
1911-1920
Arthur John Lawrence (1874-1947)
1903-1947
F. G. Laws
1896-1899
William H. Lea
1906-1910
R. Leckie
1888
Israel Leclair (1847-1902)
1888-1899
1906-1932
Lee Photo Studio (see Western Art Gallery)
1927-1932
William L. Lefroy
1899-1901
F. E. Lewin
1900
F. G. Lewis
1897-1899
Robert James Lindsay (1882-1962)
c1905-1930s
Gilbert H. Llewellin (Llewellin Studio)
Winnipeg (503 Logan)
1907-1910
W. J. Lockwood
?
?
W. S. Loggin
1898-1899
A. E. Long
?
?
Charles Long
1887-1888
Gaston Lorimy (1880-c1926) [St. Boniface Studio]
1911-1923
George D. Love
1900
Herbert S. Love
1908-1912
Skene Lowe (1856-1920)
A. H. Luce
1912
W. H. Lucus (Lucas?)
c1911
Chisholm Robert Lundy (1850-1925)
1885-1909
William C. Lusk
1899-1904
Maurice Lyall (c1887-1966)
1910
Lyall Commercial Photo Company [see Maurice Lyall]
1910
Lyceum Photo Studio
Winnipeg (290 Portage Avenue)
c1942-1943
Minniebelle Thynnea Lynn
c1912
W. Frank Lynn
1877
Mc / Mac
Peter McAdam (1882-1943)
1907-1943
John A. McArter (1872-1915)
1904-1915
McArthur & Martin
1896-1898
J. A. McColl
1880
A. E. McDairmid
Itinerant, Minnedosa
1887
Alexander M. McDonald
1900-1907
J. G. McDonald
1894-1897
Norman McDonald
1903-1907
McFadden & Lee (see Western Art Gallery)
1905-1910
Robert Taylor McFadden (1879-1939) (see Western Art Gallery)
1906-1918
Charles McGinn
1885
William McIntyre
1893-1895
William McKellar
?
?
Agnes Ethel Milen MacKenzie
c1912
Murray McKenzie (1927-2007)
?
?
MacKenzie & Lynn
c1912
Henry William M’Kenney Jr.
?
Walter McKern
1899
Walter James McKim (1877-1954)
1899-1904
McLaughlin’s Picture Gallery
?
David McMillan
1970s-2010s
McPherson & Parsons
1876-1877
W. McPherson
?
William McQueen (Rembrandt Studio)
1920s
A. McTavish
1900
Alan D. McTavish (Point A Studio)
1974-2009
M
Madison
1885-1888
Magnusson Photography [see Watson Photography]
c1970-1975, 1975-?
Les Magnusson
c1970-1975
Makers
c1916
Manitoba Hall Studio
?
Manitoba Photo Studio
?
?
Manitoba Portrait Company
1906-1909
Manitoba Viewing Company
c1895
Marks & Buchanan
1904-1907
Thomas Marshman
1891-1893
Martel & Welford [see William Angus Martel Jr and Herbert Welford]
1898
1905-1906
1910
Frank A. Martel (1881-?)
1902-1903
Isabel Martel (1872-?)
?
William Angus Martel (1851-1915)
1898-1912
William Angus Martel (1875-1958)
1906-1910
George A. Martin (1861-1924)
1898-1902
Joseph H. Martinson
?
?
Marvin & Humphreys
1908
Mrs. M. J. Mason
1907-1910
Charles D. Mathias
1904
Mathias Photo
1904
W. H. B. G. Mathias
1904
Edward Matthews (c1909-1983)
?
Mattice Brothers
?
Ernest Philip Mayer (1943-2023)
1971-2010
J. F. Meadows
1886-1887
Rudolph Meckling
1904-1908
Frederick Meeres
1917-1918
George Albert Meeres (1878-1972)
1920-1925
James A. Merritt
Brandon (Rosser Avenue & Ninth Street)
1893-1896
Herbert James Metcalfe (1870-1943)
Winnipeg (272 Aubrey Street)
1906-1943
Charles Ignatious Meyers (1892-1984)
Itinerant (Winnipeg)
1919-1920s
Israel Meyers (?-?)
Winnipeg (604 Main Street)
c1910
E. B. Meys
1900
James E. Miers
1894-1900
R. S. Miller
?
?
William J. C. Minns
1908-1925
Charles W. Mitchell (1881-?)
?
?
Isabella Mitchell (1875-?)
?
?
John Fletcher Mitchell (1862-1943) (see F. G. Burgess)
Winnipeg (211 Rupert Avenue)
1889-1901
Herbert Bernard “Bertie” Mondin (1889-1942, see Central Photo Studio)
Winnipeg (598 Main Street)
1925-1942
Moore
1880
Moore Brothers
1906-1909
Moore Photo Studio
1905
Arthur J. Moore
1902-1904
James Moore
?
?
R. C. Moore
1896-1899
Thomas V. H. Moore
1902-1904
Walter W. Moore
?
?
Alexander Moorecraft (1858-1922)
1896-1900
Delbert W. Morden (1871-?)
1895-1898
E. Morris
1883
Albert E. Morrish (1881-1968)
1904-1923
David Morrish
1970s-1980s
Murdock & Moore
1889-1890
N
Carl Nettekoven
1893-1899
1901-1904
Nettekoven & Loggin
c1895
Gerhard G. Neufeld
1921-1923
New York Art Studio (New York Studio)
1906-1910
Nicholls & Parkin
1882-1884
J. W. Nicholls
1882-1884
John Nicholson (?-?)
1888-1893
Henry Nikkel
c1977-1980s
Nixon & Best
1881
Thomas Nixon (c1858-?)
1880
Noble’s Photo Studio
Winnipeg (200 Pacific Avenue)
1907-1908
North End Photo Studio
1908-1909
Sveinn Gudmundsson Northfield (1867-1943) [1]
1897-1898
Northern Art Company (Northern Art Gallery)
1903-1907
Novelty Art Gallery
1887-1888
O
O. P. & Company
circa 1911
J. J. Ohlweiler
?
?
Benedikt “Percy” Olafsson (1878-1947) [1]
1893-1907
E. E. Ongley
?
A. Osborne
1904-1905
N. J. Osborne
1906-1920
Ottawa Photographic Rooms
1877
P
Charles E. Page
1889-1895
Edward Russell Palmer
1907
J. Thomas Palmer
1900-1911
Paris Art Photo & Studio Company
Winnipeg (602 Main Street)
1911-1912
A. M. Parker
1904-1906
Parkin & Company
1884-1887
Frederick William Parkin (1860-1953)
1882-1908
Frederick R. Parsons
1878
John Paskievich
?
Charles Julius Pasmore (1845-1933)
?
Robert Wilfred Pasmore (1877-?)
?
Paton & Saunders
?
Pauliuk’s Studio
Winnipeg (202 Pacific Avenue)
?
Joseph Paynter
1899-1918
George Francis Penny (1892-?) [see Art Craft Studio]
Winnipeg (489 Portage Avenue)
1917-1923
c1879
James Penrose (1845-1918)
1871-1880
John Percival
1897
Lou Perrin
?
c1969
Photo Button Company
c1908
Photo Jewellery Manufacturing Company
1903-1905
Ping Pong Gallery
1905
Frederick Pollard
Barnardo
1906-1907
Charles Popham
1904-1906
Clarke Popham
c1955-c1969
Popular Photo Studio
1905
David S. G. Portigal (1912-1990)
1955-?
Sydney Edgar Prest (1873-1925)
1904-1913
Adrian Price
?
c1981
Princess Studio (see Arthur Lionel Forde)
Winnipeg (530 Main Street, 528½ Main Street)
1910-1914
William Pullar (c1868-1894)
1884-1893
R
Edgar John Ransom (1874-1956)
?
William K. Ranton
1904-1914
Alfred John Rawson (1879-1950) - see Ritz Studio
1907-1913,
1927-1944Cecil Heppenstall Reeves (1883-1969)
1913-1927
Leo Reidke (1931-2006)
c1976-1990s
Reidy & Edwards
1914-1915
Reliance Studios
Winnipeg (616½ Main)
circa 1915
1909-1910
R. S. Reynolds
1903-1904
Reynolds & Stetson
1905
Frederick Rice
1904
Elmer Richardson
1905-1909
Christian Harold Richter (1862-1938) [1]
c1890-1891
Ritz Studio - see Alfred John Rawson
1927-1944
John Roberts
1916-1917
Ben Robinson
circa 1905
Robinson Studio
1907-1925
1948-2006
William Wight Robson (1865-1946)
1906-1946
Edwin S. Rogers
1906-1907
Ross, Best & Company
1884-1887
Alexander J. Ross
?
John Ross
1882-1888
1900-1904
Edgar C. Rossie (1875-?)
1899
Thomas Rossie (?-?)
1905
John F. Rowe
1882-1903
Royal Studio
1909-1910
Walter Royle (c1887-1955)
1920s
Russell Photo Studio
Winnipeg (200 Pacific Avenue)
1910-1918
Fred L. Russell
c1885
S. G. Russell
c1907
S
St. Boniface Studio (Gaston Lorimy, Angelo Accetti)
1911-1925
William Brethour St. John (1849-1931)
1887-1929
F. G. Salt
1913-1925
Alfred Sandell
1918-1925
Albert Sandford
1904-1908
Saunders Art Studio
1912
Saunders & Eaton
1906-1911
Brabazon Joseph Saunders (1870-1954)
1905-1913
Schachter Brothers
1911-1912
Saul Schachter
?
Seph Schachter
?
Schiff & Garratt
?
A. Schmidt
c1909
Scott & Anderson
1905
Scott & Edwards
1905-1910
Scott & Pillsworth
1906-1907
Don W. Scott
?
?
Ashel Herbert “Ace” Scouten (1850-1937)
1886-1901
1884-1886
Searl & Jones
c1884
George William Searl (c1846-?)
1883-1899
J. F. Searle
1887-1889
Carman Seifert
?
c1990
Benzion Shapira (1894-1967)
1912-1967
Shapira’s Photo (See Benzion Shapira)
c1916
Joseph B. Shaw
c1916
Shaw & Alexander - See Fred Grant Alexander
?
Sheffield
c1932
Sibbald & Son
1907-1908
John Sibbald
?
?
Ron Siemens
c1985-1999
T. C. Sims
?
?
Johan Alfred Sjogren (1865-1951)
1910s-1930s
Percy S. Skuse (1882-1957)
c1905
Albert Smith
1906-1925
A. R. F. Smith
1900
Clark Jaques Smith (1879-1968)
1911-1961
E. Barton Smith
c1911
Edgar Smith (1874-1955)
1905-1925
Edward John Crozier Smith (1856-1934)
1892-1907
Ernest R. T. Smith
1891-1901
J. C. R. T. Smith
1894
Keith Smith
?
c1985
Jack M. Smordin
1918-1925
A. J. Smythe
1883-1884
I. B. Smythe
c1910
Sydney A. Smythe
1883-1884
Winnipeg (405 Selkirk Avenue)
1920s
Smythe Brothers
1883-1884
William Sones
1918-1925
Alexander Addison Blake Sovereen (1863-1942)
1899
1900-1916
J. Fred Spalding
1930s
G. W. Sparling
1903-1915
Mary Barrett Speechly (1873-1968)
?
?
Hollis D. Speers
1906-1915
A. B. Spence
?
?
Sheila Spence
1990s-2010s
Henry W. Sproule (1867-?)
?
?
R. A. Stafford
1902-1904
R. S. Stafford
c1910
William J. Stanlake (1878-?)
Brandon, Crystal City (?-1908), Pilot Mound (1907-1908)
1907-1919
Star Photo Studio
Winnipeg (200 Pacific Avenue)
1919-c1932
Steele & Company
1894-c1912
Steele & Wing
1887-1892
Steele, Mitchell Limited
1910-1912
Frederick W. Steele (1860-?)
1887-1897
William Butler Steele
?
?
Charles B. Stephens (1866-?)
1889-1907
Eva Stevens
1902
Frederick “Fred” Stevens (1856-1939)
c1890-?
D. R. Stiles
1860
Lisa Stinner-Kun
2010s
Thomas Storey
1906
Robert Strain & Company
c1912
Strong & Company
1906-1907
Harvey James Strong (1870-?)
1908-1912
Ida W. Strong
c1911
Lawrence Adne Stuckey (1921-2001)
?
1876-1877
Sutherland & Company
1894
Bill Synychych
?
c1983
T
Yosh Tashiro (1920-1989)
1952-1985
George W. Taylor (1872-?)
?
?
Robert Ross “Bob” Taylor (1940-2013)
?-2013
William Aiken Taylor (1884-1952)
1911-?
Peter S. Teneyck
1901-1908
Charles J. Thacker (1874-?)
c1899
Alexander Barton Thom [A. B. Thom] (1849-1926)
1880s-1904
W. A. Thomson
1896-1899
E. Thorbergson
c1916
Bjornulfur Thorlacius (1880-1962) [1]
1904-1922
Diana Thorneycroft
1980s-present
Bjarni Thorsteinsson (1868-1943) [1]
Gimli, Selkirk
1910-1925
Tilley & Ramsdale
1907
Harold Herbert Tilley (1876-1959)
1904-1926
Auguste Joseph Tissot (1878-1940)
c1922
Walter Toews (1929-1971)
1955-1971
A. E. Topley
1905
W. T. Towns
1901
Herbert Israel Townsend (1855-1942)
1896-1899
E. G. Treilhard
1900
Ernest S. Treilhard
1890-1892
Trojan’s Studio
Winnipeg [877 Selkirk Avenue]
?
Tune & Company
c1885
Twentieth Century Photo Company
1906
John Tyler
?
c1979
Joseph Burr Tyrrell (1858-1957)
1887-1891
U
Andrew Ulicki
Winnipeg (910 Main Street)
1964-2013
Cheryl Ulicki
Winnipeg (910 Main Street)
1964-2013
Arthur Ullyet
1889-1890
Unique Novelty Company
1907
Universal Studios
circa 1955
V
F. E. Vaillancourt
1916-1923
Veasey & Bland
1887-1888
H. Veasey
?
Victory Photo Studio [David Samuel Charach]
?
George Oswald Viertel (1875-1949) [see John C. Voigt]
1896-1900
Violet Ray Art Studio
Winnipeg (555 Main Street)
circa 1920
Virden Photo Studio
?
John Christian Voigt (1866-1896)
1892-1896
W
Frederick Walford
1901-1904
Edward Walker (1836-1924)
1905-1907
Wallis & Hayes
c1908
H. B. Wallis
?
Walters Studio
?
?
D. H. Ward
?
?
Ted Wardle
1946-?
A. J. Watkinson
1880
Watson Photographers [see Pauline Watson and Robert Watson]
1975-1995
J. A. Watson
1896-1899
Pauline Watson
1976-1995
Robert Watson
1975-1995
W. J. Watson
1892-1894
F. E. Watts
1905-1908
Weaver & Company
1914-1915
James Weaver
1913-1914
Godfrey M. Weberg
1883-1886
Weekes Studio
c1923-1929
Frank Whiteford Weekes (1886-1949)
1908-1928
James Weidman
1885
Godfrey M. Welberg
1884-1887
Herbert Welford (1865-?)
Winnipeg (Main & Pacific Avenue)
1895-1908
Eva Wells
?
1906-c1912
Western Photograph Company
1914-1915
Marie A. White
1914-1915
Whitehorse
1908
H. H. Wiebe
1904-1905
Willson’s Studio
1909
Fred S. Willson
1906-c1910
J. W. Wilson & Company
c1910
Wilson & Palmer
c1909
James D. Wilson
1900
W. J. Wilson
1904-1906
William Edward Wing
1887-1892
Winnipeg Amateur Photo Supply Company
1909-1910
Winnipeg Art Gallery
c1880
Winnipeg Electric Studio
Winnipeg (Main Street)
c1908-1912
1904-1913
Winnipeg Photo Company (Bert J. Flynn, Henry Flynn)
Winnipeg (422½ Portage Avenue)
1911-1913
Winnipeg Portrait Company
1894
Winnipeg Portrait Studio
1895-1896
Winnipeg Sales Company
circa 1910
Henry Crawley Wood (1866-1951)
Winnipeg (593 Main Street)
1901-1902
Justus K. Wright
?
?
Z
Sheldon Zettler
?
1973
Catching the Sunbeams: An Inventory of Canadian Prairie Photographers to 1900 by Hugh A. Dempsey, 1993. [unpublished manuscript, used with permission of Hugh A. Dempsey]
Catching the Sun: A Catalogue of Photography Studio & Photographica Advertisements & Notices Published in Prairie Canada Between 1850 and 1900 by Philippe Maurice, Philmsearch Inc., Calgary, Alberta, 1998.
The Western Canada Photographers List (1860-1925) by Glen C. Phillips, Milton (Ontario): Global Heritage Press, 2002.
Henderson’s Winnipeg and Brandon Directories, Henderson Directories Limited, Peel’s Prairie Provinces, University of Alberta Libraries.
1. Biographies developed by Nelson Gerrard at Saga Publications, Arborg.
Obituary [Frederick Arnold Clarke], Daily Graphic / Central Plains Herald-Leader, 7 March 2013, page 38.
City of Winnipeg Tax Rolls, City of Winnipeg Archives.
Development of this index was supported, in part, by a Manitoba Heritage Grant.
We thank Rob McInnes, Andrew Cunningham, Christy Henry, Eileen Trott, Frances Kasper, Butch Pearson, Nonni Jonsson, Al Thorleifson, Robert Dufresne, Rilla Race, Marcel Prefontaine, Wendy Olsson, James Frank, Jake Davidson, Marie Maitland, Sandra Rempel, Christian Cassidy, Kelly Torrington, Meg Antoine, Robert Huck, James Kostuchuk, Paula Lietz, Alf Redekopp, Kerry Guenter, Dan Dyck, Gord MacKay, Salli Rice, Carol Hooper, Mike Smith, Harvey Zimberg, Nathen Gabriel, Graham Schellenberg, Steven Kohm, Janice McClelland, Bruce Wiebe, Wilmarie Knudson, Michael Boss, Brian Fardoe, Dale Dutton, Pauline & Robert Watson, Alan McTavish, Cheryl Ulicki, Sharon McInnes, Walter Barrie, and Pam Henault for providing additional information used here.
This index was researched and compiled by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 16 October 2024
Manitoba Photographers: 1858 to Present
A list of professional photographers who have worked in Manitoba, from 1858 to the present, compiled by the Manitoba Historical Society.
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Gordon Goldsborough & Manitoba Historical Society. All rights reserved.
