MHS Archives: Manitoba Photographers, 1858 to Present

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.

This list is a work in progress. If you are aware of photographers omitted from it, please contact webmaster@mhs.mb.ca.

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Photographer / Studio

Town(s)

Period

John James Abbott (1840-1914)

Emerson

1882-1906

Advance Fotos

Winnipeg (341 Main Street)

circa 1916

Advance Photo Company

Winnipeg

circa 1916

Angelo Accetti (c1888-1956)

Winnipeg (St. Boniface)

1920-1954

H. Gordon Aikman (1914-2002)

Dauphin, Winnipeg

?

Peter John Alekno (?-?)

Winnipeg

1907

Fred Grant Alexander (1881-1907) - See Shaw & Alexander

Carman

c1901

William Alexander

Portage la Prairie

1917-1925

Karl Drago Alkier (1926-2008)

Dauphin

1963-1994

Hugh Allan (1917-2004)

Winnipeg

?

Charles Thomas Allbutt (1857-1921)

Winnipeg

1889-1912

Howard H. Allen

Brandon (906 Rosser Avenue), Dauphin, Gilbert Plains, Grandview, Roblin

1911-1925

J. F. Allen

Winnipeg

1890s-1907

Roy Allen

Millwood

1903-1905

American Art

Winnipeg (207 Logan Avenue)

circa 1917

American Art Gallery

Winnipeg

1885-1899

Joseph Anderson

Winnipeg

1889-1891

Amedee Archambault

Winnipeg

1906-1907

John D. Argo

Binscarth

1890

Charles L. Armstrong

Emerson

1879-1883

Art Craft Studio [see George Francis Penny]

Winnipeg

1917-1923

J. T. Ashley

Cartwright

1892-1894

Ron Ayers

Winnipeg

c1968-1990s

James Aylesworth

Birtle

1890

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Samuel H. Bagshaw

Birtle

1888-1907

Walter Barrie (1848-1935)

Mafeking

1906-1935

Baldwin & Blondal

Winnipeg

1891-1900

W. Cook Baldwin

Pilot Mound, Winnipeg

1888-1890

Ronald Baleja

?

c1989

Harry Barber

Winnipeg

1883

William G. Barclay

Ralphton

1880-1890s

Alonzo Barnard (1817-1905)

Red River Settlement (Winnipeg)

1854-1863

F. Barret

Deloraine

?-1888

W. Barrie

Minnedosa

1884

George Alfred Barrowclough (1870-1950)

Stonewall, Dominion City, Winnipeg

1897-1906

Alexander E. Barton (1863-?)

Winnipeg

1899-1906

William John Bates (1876-1943)

Itinerant

1906-1910

Bauslaugh & Taylor

Winnipeg

1911-1915

Peter Allan Bauslaugh (1856-1934)

Winnipeg

1881-1934

A. G. Baxter

Ste. Elizabeth, St. James

1922-1924

William Sylvester Alpheus “Billy” Beal (1874-1968)

Swan River

?

Thomas Beale

Shoal Lake

1899-1901

G. Spalding Beales

Winnipeg

1870

E. J. Beaucage

Flin Flon

1930s

Bell Photo Studio

Winnipeg

1901-1910

Louis Cecil Bellsmith

Winnipeg

1909-1912

Kathleen M. Bennett (1882-?)

?

?

Bennetto & Company

Portage la Prairie, Winnipeg

1882-1906

Israel Bennetto (1860-1946)

Winnipeg

1880-1906

Israel Bennetto Jr. (1884-1956)

Winnipeg

 

George Bentley (1869-?)

Winnipeg

?

Wesley D. Bentley (1871-?)

Winnipeg

?

Bentley Portrait Company

Winnipeg

1902-1910

C. C. Bergman

Altona

1919

Berlin Portrait Company

Winnipeg

1895-1912

Bernstein & Walters

Winnipeg (576 Main Street & Corner of King & Dufferin Sts.)

c1910 (1904-1918)

J. C. F. Berst

Winnipeg

1885

Best & Blondal

Winnipeg

1887

Best & Brother

Winnipeg

1882-1883

Best & Company

Winnipeg

1889-1890

Arthur “Art” Best

Morden

c1967-c1977

Harry Best

Winnipeg

?

James Best

Winnipeg

?

John Best (1859-?)

Winnipeg

1888

Robert Best

Winnipeg

?

William Best

Winnipeg

?

William R. Bestard

Carman

1912-1915

Bingham & Thom

Itinerant

?

Frederick V. Bingham (c1855-1929)

Itinerant

1881-1886

Birnie & Company

Holland

1899-1900

George Birnie

Holland

1900

Harry C. Birnie

Manitou

1899-1904

Thomas Carfrae Birnie (1864-1911)

Morden, Manitou

1892-1904

Sigurdur Josua Bjornsson (1862-1938) [1]

Dakota Territory

1885-1888

Cuthbert Blackett

Winnipeg

1887

Edwin Clay Blair (1862-1945)

High Bluff

1908

Frank D. Blakely (1865-1918)

Winnipeg

c1897-1918

Bland & Company

Winnipeg

1889

Fred Johnson Bland

Winnipeg

?

Thomas Harold Bland

Winnipeg

?

Noah Bleavins

Stonewall

1912

Jon A. Blondal (1862-1938) [1]

Winnipeg

1888

John Henry James Blondin

Winnipeg

1889

BonTon Gallery

Winnipeg

1900

Henry J. “Harry” Bowles (1855-1944)

Winnipeg

1879

Boynton & Eaton

Reston

1911-1915

George Boynton

Reston

1911-1915

Klaas W. Brandt (1876-1954)

Steinbach

1899-1900

J. W. Bridgman

Winnipeg

1882-1883

Brigden’s Limited

Winnipeg

?

Sidney Brightman

Winnipeg

1910

Brindle & Dowling

Souris

1894

Brock & Company

Brandon

1884-1900

John Allan Brock (1848-1929)

Brandon

1882-1895

Brown’s System of Photographing

Winnipeg

1899-1902

Albert E. “Bert” Brown (?-1916)

Reston

?-1916

H. W. Brown (?-?)

Winnipeg

1870

W. Brown

Melita, Souris

1925

Bryant’s Studio

Brandon, Winnipeg

1905-1910

Harry H. Bryant (1866-1942)

Winnipeg

1911-1912

Margaret Jane “Nellie” Bryant (c1864-1947)

Brandon, Winnipeg

1907-1908

Donald M. Buchanan (1871-?)

Holland

1900-1904

Daniel Budiniski

Winnipeg

1912

Burgess & James

Winnipeg

1907-1909

Andrew Burgess

Virden

1911

Frederick G. Burgess (see J. F. Mitchell)

Hartney, Winnipeg (211 Rupert Avenue)

1901-1906

George Burgess

Virden

1910-1911

Charles E. Burrows

Winnipeg

1910

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C. B. W. Photographers

Winnipeg

1912

Gerald Stuart “Gerry” Cairns (1933-2023)

Winnipeg

40 years

Campbell’s Art Gallery

Winnipeg (see W. J. Crooks)

1904-1912

A. M. Campbell

Melita

1887-1892

Edwin J. Campbell

Winnipeg

1899

Hector A. Campbell

Dominion City, Emerson

1908-1919

John Campbell

Winnipeg

1900-1903

John A. “Jack” Campbell (1872-1963)

Northern Manitoba

?

Malcolm L. Campbell

Dauphin, Plumas, Souris

1905-1914

Neil Campbell

?

c1966

Canadian Engraving & Publishing Company

Winnipeg

1906-1908

Carbon Studio

Winnipeg

1904

A. Vance Card

Winnipeg

?

Card & Parsons

Winnipeg

1879

Joseph Carey

Portage la Prairie

1878-1879

Rosetta Ernestine Watson Carr (c1845-1907)

Winnipeg

1883-1899

William Caswell (1838-1910)

Winnipeg

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 [Barney Charach]

Winnipeg [264 Portage Avenue]

c1947-?

Barney Charach (1922-2013)

Winnipeg

1947-2007

David Samuel Charach (1890-1969)

Winnipeg

?-1969

Paul Charach (1925-1992)

Winnipeg

?-1992

Theodore H. J. Charmbury

Portage la Prairie

1905

Edward J. B. Chausse

Virden

1918

William B. Cheshire

Winnipeg

1891-1894

Chic Photo Studio

Winnipeg

1907

John Harry Chic (1918-1990)

Roblin

1948-1990

William H. “Billy” Christian (?-?)

Steinbach

c1910

Fred Clark

Deloraine

1914

John A. Clark

Winnipeg

1889-1897

F. Clarke

Miniota

?

Frederick Arnold “Fred” Clarke (1917-2013)

MacGregor

?-1980s

John Henry Clarke (1860-1923)

Selkirk, Winnipeg

1899-1910

R. K. Clavering

Binscarth

1887

William D. Clement (1864-?)

Brandon

1896-1902

Endre Johannesen Cleven (1874-1916)

Winnipeg

1905-1909

F. W. Clingan

Elkhorn

1900

John Tyrell Coan (1875-1943)

The Pas

1915-1925

Coan & Robertson

The Pas

1921-1922

John B. Cole

Brandon

1912-1915

Cole’s Photographic Studio

Brandon

1913-1914

Reginald Merrick Coleman (1891-1963)

Brandon

c1940s

Alfred Colliard

Notre Dame de Lourdes

1908

William Frederick Colley

Winnipeg

1894-1902

Alfred Collier

Winnipeg

c1890

Color Photo Company

Winnipeg

c1930s

Thomas R. Colpitts

Brandon, Ninette, Winnipeg

1883-1887

Edwin Lincoln Cooke (1883-1957)

Winnipeg (217 Montgomery Block)

c1930

H. W. Cooke

Winnipeg

1911-1912

J. F. Cooke

Winnipeg

1880

A. D. Cooper

Brandon, Virden

1883-1900

E. O. Cooper

Wawanesa

1906-1907

George Stuart Grenfell Ironside Cotter (1915-2011)

Winnipeg

1967-2011

John R. Cotton

Killarney, Morden, Winnipeg

1896-1899

Percy Coultas

Neepawa

1913-1925

William Baxter Cowe (1841-1908)

Manitou, Carman, Roland

1889-1908

Craig & Spriggs

Swan River

1917-1919

William James Crooks (1877-1935)

Winnipeg

1910-1935

Barlow Cumberland

Winnipeg

c1894

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Mattie Dalziel (1880-?)

?

?

George Danellion

Deloraine

1894-1896

Anatole D’Aoust (1883-1972)

Makinak

?

Davey & Grestock

Rapid City

1900

Davidson Brothers

Brandon, Deloraine

1892-1912

Davidson Studio

Winnipeg (106 Osborne Street)

1938-c1972

Davidson’s Studio

Brandon

1915-1923

Davidson & Gowen

Brandon

1912-1914

Alexander Davidson (1865-1928)

Brandon

1896-1923

Alvin Davidson

Deloraine

1905

Frank Davidson

Deloraine, Melita, Souris

1904-1909

George Davidson

Carberry, Deloraine, Melita, Rapid City, Souris

1889-1907

John Davidson (1883-?)

Souris

1904

Mary Davidson

Souris

1906-1908

W. A. Davidson

Melita, Souris

1914-1925

Thorsteinn Davidsson (1871-1953) [1]

Winnipeg

1891-c1893

Fred D. Davies

Queens Valley

?

Hugh Dempster (1840-?)

?

?

Leo Derechin (1875-1966)

Winnipeg (405 Selkirk Avenue)

1920s

F. Deschouwer

Cypress River

1900

Claude P. “Dett” Dettloff (1899-1978)

Winnipeg

1925-1936

Harry T. Devine

Brandon

1885-1886

Perry Diamond

?

c1978

Dierlamm & Company

Winnipeg

c1895

Harold Leslie Doherty (1929-2008)

Winnipeg

?

J. H. Doherty (1845-?)

Itinerant, Portage la Prairie, Winnipeg

1876-1882

Victor A. Driver

Nelson/Nelsonville

1882

Mike Dubchak

Winnipeg

1935-1957

Duffin & Caswell

Winnipeg

 

Duffin & Company

Winnipeg

 

Duffin’s Photo Studio

Winnipeg

 

Simon Duffin (1843-1900)

Winnipeg

 

James Duggan

Winnipeg

1873-1874

Cleophas G. Durocher (1855-?)

Winnipeg

1880-1882

George E. Durrant (?-?)

Elgin, Hartney, Treherne

1908-1915

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William Eakin

Winnipeg

1980s-2010s

Leslie Witmer Eaton (1874-1923)

Reston

1911-1912

T. Eaton Postcard/Photo Studio

Winnipeg

1908-c1968

F. M. Edey

Winnipeg

1880

Dorothy Helen Dagg Edwards (1929-1994)

Killarney

1983-1989

John Boyd Edwards (1923-1983)

Killarney

1952-1983

Percy Charles Edwards (1878-1952)

Killarney, Manitou, Pilot Mound

1904-1952

Elite Galleries

Winnipeg

1883

Elite Photographic Studio

Portage la Prairie

1908

J. H. Elliott

Clearwater

1899

John M. Elliott

Crystal City

1901-1903

Charles Ellis (1844-1921)

Winnipeg

1880-1881

Empire Photo Studio

Winnipeg (494, 516, 518, 530 Main)

1944-c1970

Eureka Photo Post Card Company

Winnipeg

?

European Photographic Studio

Winnipeg

1907-1910

Tim Evans

?

c1986

Excelsior Art Gallery

Winnipeg

1886

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Henry D. Fast (1894-1977)

?

?

Marlene Fast

?

c1988

James H. Fenton

Binscarth, Russell

1907-1911

David Fieldman

?

?

H. N. Finch

Carman

1904-1915

William B. Finley

Swan River, Winnipeg

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

Foote and James

Winnipeg

1909-1932

Lewis Benjamin “Lou” Foote (1873-1957)

Winnipeg

1901-1947

Arthur Lionel Forde (1879-1952)

Winnipeg

1910-1916

Forde Photo Studio (see Arthur Lionel Forde)

Winnipeg

1915-1916

Terence Joseph Fowler (1925-2000)

Brandon

1961-1996

William Foxall

Brandon

1900-1901

Johan de Frament

Notre Dame de Lourdes

1900

Carl K. Frey

Winnipeg

1906

Friesen & Dueck

Altona

1910-1912

Charles Fritz (c1854-?)

?

?

H. B. Fryer

MacGregor

1900

E. A. Fulkerson

Roblin

1906

Jean Fulkerson

Roblin

1907

Johann E. Funk (1878-1968)

?

?

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Louis de Galembert

?

?

H. W. Gallichan

Morden

1921-1923

M. Garrett

Winnipeg

1883

W. C. R. Garrick

Westbourne

1900

Garrioch & Freelhard

Dauphin

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

Winnipeg

1905-c1918?

George A. Gauvin (1863-?)

Winnipeg

1905-?

Adolph E. Gentzel (1869-?)

Winnipeg

1905-?

J. A. Gerhart

Grandview

1903-c1916

German Art Studio (see Benzion Shapira)

Winnipeg

1909-1910

Adolph Gescheit

Winnipeg

1907

Gibson & Metcalf Company

Winnipeg

1908

Douglas H. Gibson

Brandon

c1909

John William Gibson (1872-1959)

Winnipeg

1906-c1912

Ginther & Friesen

Steinbach

1894

Goodall & Love

Winnipeg

1906

Goodall Photo Company

Winnipeg

1909-1910

George Wilfred Goodall (1872-1970)

Winnipeg

1901-1912

Gud Goodmanson

Winnipeg

1899

R. Goodwin

Elkhorn

1900

Fred Gorrill

Fairfax

1905

W. J. Gould

Winnipeg

 

Frank Henry Gowen (1877-1946)

Brandon, Wawanesa

1905-1913

Johnson Graham

Neepawa

1888

Thomas J. Graham

Neepawa

1884-1888

T. L. Graham

Melita

1899

George Grant

Winnipeg

1908-1912

P. W. Gray

Hamiota

1900

Samuel Gray (?-?)

Winnipeg

1895-1899

Gray & Smith

Gladstone, Russell, Winnipeg

1900-1904

Percy H. Greene

Carman

1918-1922

Albert Burton Gresham (1905-1941)

Winnipeg`

?

Howard Grestock (1879-1917)

Rapid City

1899-1900

Alex Griffin (?-?)

Winnipeg

c1923

James Grummett

Morden

1886-1892

Cecil Francis Guest (1874-1945)

Pembina Crossing (1900-1906), Manitou (1906-1908)

1900-1908

Joseph Guilbault

Fannystelle

1904-1905

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Sigfried Hagen

Transcona (Winnipeg)

1914-1915

James Deakin Hall (1854-1936)

Winnipeg

1882-1887

Robert C. Hall

Glenboro

1896-1902

Hall & Lowe

Winnipeg

1882-1887

Hamiota Arts Studio

Hamiota

?

A. G. Hamm

Gretna

1900-1902

Peter G. Hamm (1883-1965)

Neubergthal

1900-1950

George A. Hanes

Brandon

1883

S. Hardy [see Robinson Studio]

?

?

Septimus Hardy

Rivers

1916-1917

George Harding Harris (1900-1976)

various

 

Thomas Harrison Jr.

Neepawa

1889-1890

Hartney Photo Studio - see John McArter

Hartney

?-1904

A. J. Hayes

?

?

Frank Jay Haynes (1853-1921)

Winnipeg

1881

D. Henderson

Winnipeg

1887-1888

Harry Henfrey (1885-1949)

Virden

1924-1925

Aubrey Randolph Henson (1884-1965)

Newdale, Minnedosa, Wasagaming [Riding Mountain National Park]

1911-?

Cornelius C. Hiebert

Altona

1918-1922

N. W. Higgins

Brandon

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

Portage la Prairie, Virden

1895-1909

Charles Honisback

?

?

William Houston

Cypress River

1907-1908

D. Howarth

Winnipeg

1908

Charles Percival Howden (1878-1951)

Hamiota

1908-1916

Howlett Euclid Studio

Winnipeg

?

Hoy’s Photo Studio

Brandon (7 Tenth Street)

1950s

Ralph Harper Hoy (1910-1986)

Brandon (7 Tenth Street)

1950s

Hudson’s Bay Photo Parlors

Winnipeg

1886

Samuel Hudson

Stonewall

1899-1900

Arthur Henry Hulme

Winnipeg

1899-1901

E. Hunter

Winnipeg

c1885

Paul William Hunter (?-1988)

Winnipeg

1931-c1966

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Imperial Photo Company

Brandon

1914

S. N. Ingo

Winnipeg

1888

William Howard Irwin (1853-1951)

Brandon

1882-1901

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G. J. Jackson

Morden, Nelson

1883-1886

Richard Jackson

Neepawa

1900

W. Jackson

Winnipeg

c1909

William J. Jackson

Killarney, Neepawa

1896-1901

Jacobson Studio

Souris

c1949

George James (1866-1963)

Winnipeg

1907-1932

Peter Jansen

?

c1982

James W. Jarrett

MacGregor, Portage la Prairie

1911-1919

William Jefferson

Stonewall

1881-1887

John Sampson Jenkins (1861-1936)

Deloraine

1909-1930

Caroline “Carrie” Jenkins (1889-?)

Deloraine

1930-1964

Ernest Jerrett (1885-1958)

Brandon, Wasagaming [Riding Mountain National Park]

1931-1958

Cyril Jessop (1881-1967)

Gladstone, Winnipeg

1905-1960

Johnston & Bennetto

Winnipeg

1880

Johnston & Hall

Winnipeg

c1881

J. Johnston

Emerson

1881

William Johnston (?-?)

Selkirk, Winnipeg

1881-1892

Jones Brothers

Winnipeg

1886-1888

Charles S. Jones

Winnipeg

?

John Wallace Jones (1856-1938)

Winnipeg

?

Thomas McNabb Jones (1859-1918)

Birtle, Winnipeg

1883-1887

Edmond George Justement (1872-?)

Winnipeg

1905-1908

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Henry Daniel Kalen (1928-2004)

Winnipeg

?

Frances Jennet Kasper (1933-2023)

Winnipeg

1960s

Karl’s Studio (see Karl Drago Alkier)

Dauphin

1963-1994

Ernest C. Kaye (c1869-1917)

Tyndall

1906-1917

Miss D. Kerfoot

Emerson

1879-1882

M. Kerfoot

Emerson

1878-1922

Bruce Kingsford

Carman

1906

Samuel Klein

Winnipeg (330 Selkirk Avenue)

c1953-c1970

Klein’s Modern Photo Studio

Winnipeg (330 Selkirk Avenue)

c1953-c1970

Peter H. Klippenstein (1878-1960)

Altbergthal

1900-1930

Alfred Knowles

Gretna, Manitou

1893-1894

Knowles Brothers

Gretna

?

Knowling & Sims

Winnipeg

c1907

George Knowling

?

?

Arnold Kohnen (1850-1931)

Winnipeg

1895-1904

S. Kohler

Treesbank

1900

Demitro Kotlarenko

Winnipeg

1912

Mrs. C. F. Kreiger

Souris

1892-1900

Ernie Kroeger

Winnipeg

1980s

Gordon Kyle

Winnipeg

1912-c1918

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Lafayette Studio

Winnipeg (489 Portage Avenue)

?

Charles McKenzie Lambly (1893-1940)

Winnipeg

?

M. Landry

Altamont

1900

Christopher Lane

?

?

Ernest L. Lane

Glenboro

1903-1904

Joseph Langevin (1830s-1882)

Winnipeg

1864-1870s

C. A. Laroie

St. Jean Baptiste

1905-1908

Ryder Larsen (c1850-?)

Red River Settlement (Winnipeg)

1866-1870

Lawrence & Meeres

Binscarth, Birtle, Rossburn, Russell

1911-1920

Arthur John Lawrence (1874-1947)

Birtle, Rossburn, Shoal Lake

1903-1947

F. G. Laws

Russell

1896-1899

William H. Lea

Durban

1906-1910

R. Leckie

Winnipeg

1888

Israel Leclair (1847-1902)

St. Boniface (Winnipeg)

1888-1899

Archibald Louis “Archie” Lee (see Western Art Gallery)

Winnipeg

1906-1932

Lee Photo Studio (see Western Art Gallery)

Winnipeg

1927-1932

William L. Lefroy

Winnipeg

1899-1901

F. E. Lewin

MacGregor

1900

F. G. Lewis

Russell

1897-1899

Robert James Lindsay (1882-1962)

Laurier, McCreary

c1905-1930s

Gilbert H. Llewellin (Llewellin Studio)

Winnipeg (503 Logan)

1907-1910

W. J. Lockwood

?

?

W. S. Loggin

Rapid City

1898-1899

A. E. Long

?

?

Charles Long

Winnipeg

1887-1888

Gaston Lorimy (1880-c1926) [St. Boniface Studio]

St. Boniface (Winnipeg)

1911-1923

George D. Love

Treherne

1900

Herbert S. Love

Winnipeg

1908-1912

Skene Lowe (1856-1920)

Winnipeg

 

A. H. Luce

Winnipeg

1912

W. H. Lucus (Lucas?)

Winnipeg

c1911

Chisholm Robert Lundy (1850-1925)

Manitou, Morden, Carman, Winnipeg

1885-1909

William C. Lusk

Portage la Prairie

1899-1904

Maurice Lyall (c1887-1966)

Winnipeg

1910

Lyall Commercial Photo Company [see Maurice Lyall]

Winnipeg

1910

Lyceum Photo Studio

Winnipeg (290 Portage Avenue)

c1942-1943

Minniebelle Thynnea Lynn

Winnipeg

c1912

W. Frank Lynn

Winnipeg

1877

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Peter McAdam (1882-1943)

Winnipeg

1907-1943

John A. McArter (1872-1915)

Hartney

1904-1915

McArthur & Martin

Killarney

1896-1898

J. A. McColl

Winnipeg

1880

A. E. McDairmid

Itinerant, Minnedosa

1887

Alexander M. McDonald

Roland

1900-1907

J. G. McDonald

Winnipeg

1894-1897

Norman McDonald

Hartney

1903-1907

McFadden & Lee (see Western Art Gallery)

Winnipeg

1905-1910

Robert Taylor McFadden (1879-1939) (see Western Art Gallery)

Winnipeg

1906-1918

Charles McGinn

Winnipeg

1885

William McIntyre

Portage la Prairie

1893-1895

William McKellar

?

?

Agnes Ethel Milen MacKenzie

Winnipeg

c1912

Murray McKenzie (1927-2007)

?

?

MacKenzie & Lynn

Winnipeg

c1912

Henry William M’Kenney Jr.

Winnipeg

?

Walter McKern

Winnipeg

1899

Walter James McKim (1877-1954)

Boissevain, Crystal City, Deloraine, Holmfield, Killarney

1899-1904

McLaughlin’s Picture Gallery

Winnipeg

?

David McMillan

Winnipeg

1970s-2010s

McPherson & Parsons

Winnipeg

1876-1877

W. McPherson

Winnipeg

?

William McQueen (Rembrandt Studio)

Winnipeg

1920s

A. McTavish

Napinka, Pipestone

1900

Alan D. McTavish (Point A Studio)

Winnipeg

1974-2009

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Madison

Winnipeg

1885-1888

Magnusson Photography [see Watson Photography]

Selkirk, Steinbach

c1970-1975, 1975-?

Les Magnusson

Selkirk

c1970-1975

Makers

Winnipeg

c1916

Manitoba Hall Studio

Winnipeg

?

Manitoba Photo Studio

?

?

Manitoba Portrait Company

Winnipeg

1906-1909

Manitoba Viewing Company

Winnipeg

c1895

Marks & Buchanan

Winnipeg

1904-1907

Thomas Marshman

Hartney

1891-1893

Martel & Welford [see William Angus Martel Jr and Herbert Welford]

Winnipeg

1898

Martel’s Limited

Winnipeg

1905-1906

Martel’s Photo Studio

Winnipeg

1910

Frank A. Martel (1881-?)

Winnipeg

1902-1903

Isabel Martel (1872-?)

Winnipeg

?

William Angus Martel (1851-1915)

Brandon, Morden, Winnipeg

1898-1912

William Angus Martel (1875-1958)

Winnipeg

1906-1910

George A. Martin (1861-1924)

Killarney

1898-1902

Joseph H. Martinson

?

?

Marvin & Humphreys

Winnipeg

1908

Mrs. M. J. Mason

Neepawa

1907-1910

Charles D. Mathias

Dauphin

1904

Mathias Photo

Dauphin

1904

W. H. B. G. Mathias

Portage la Prairie

1904

Edward Matthews (c1909-1983)

Winnipeg

?

Mattice Brothers

Holland

?

Ernest Philip Mayer (1943-2023)

Winnipeg

1971-2010

J. F. Meadows

Winnipeg

1886-1887

Rudolph Meckling

Plum Coulee

1904-1908

Frederick Meeres

Hamiota

1917-1918

George Albert Meeres (1878-1972)

Birtle, Binscarth, Rossburn, Russell

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

Ste. Agathe

1900

James E. Miers

Boissevain

1894-1900

R. S. Miller

?

?

William J. C. Minns

Carman, Gladstone, Morden

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

Emerson

1880

Moore Brothers

Winnipeg

1906-1909

Moore Photo Studio

Winnipeg

1905

Arthur J. Moore

Stonewall

1902-1904

James Moore

?

?

R. C. Moore

Manitou

1896-1899

Thomas V. H. Moore

Winnipeg

1902-1904

Walter W. Moore

?

?

Alexander Moorecraft (1858-1922)

Winnipeg

1896-1900

Delbert W. Morden (1871-?)

Pilot Mound

1895-1898

E. Morris

Winnipeg

1883

Albert E. Morrish (1881-1968)

Brandon, Crystal City, Pilot Mound, Virden

1904-1923

David Morrish

Winnipeg

1970s-1980s

Murdock & Moore

MacGregor

1889-1890

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Carl Nettekoven

Rapid City, Strathclair

1893-1899

Shoal Lake

1901-1904

Nettekoven & Loggin

Shoal Lake

c1895

Gerhard G. Neufeld

Altona

1921-1923

New York Art Studio (New York Studio)

Winnipeg

1906-1910

Nicholls & Parkin

Winnipeg

1882-1884

J. W. Nicholls

Winnipeg

?

John Nicholson (?-?)

Boissevain

1888-1893

Henry Nikkel

Morden

c1977-1980s

Nixon & Best

Winnipeg

1881

Thomas Nixon (c1858-?)

Winnipeg

1880

Noble’s Photo Studio

Winnipeg (200 Pacific Avenue)

1907-1908

North End Photo Studio

Winnipeg

1908-1909

Sveinn Gudmundsson Northfield (1867-1943) [1]

Winnipeg

1897-1898

Northern Art Company (Northern Art Gallery)

Winnipeg

1903-1907

Novelty Art Gallery

Winnipeg

1887-1888

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O. P. & Company

Winnipeg

circa 1911

J. J. Ohlweiler

?

?

Benedikt “Percy” Olafsson (1878-1947) [1]

Winnipeg

1893-1907

E. E. Ongley

Glenboro

?

A. Osborne

Boissevain

1904-1905

N. J. Osborne

Boissevain

1906-1920

Ottawa Photographic Rooms

Winnipeg

1877

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Charles E. Page

Selkirk

1889-1895

Edward Russell Palmer

Winnipeg

1907

J. Thomas Palmer

Gladstone, MacGregor, Portage la Prairie

1900-1911

Paris Art Photo & Studio Company

Winnipeg (602 Main Street)

1911-1912

A. M. Parker

Shoal Lake

1904-1906

Parkin & Company

Winnipeg

1884-1887

Frederick W. Parkin (1860-1953)

Winnipeg

1890-1908

Frederick R. Parsons

Winnipeg

1878

John Paskievich

Winnipeg

?

Charles Julius Pasmore (1845-1933)

St. Boniface

?

Robert Wilfred Pasmore (1877-?)

St. Boniface

?

Paton & Saunders

Portage la Prairie (?)

?

Pauliuk’s Studio

Winnipeg (202 Pacific Avenue)

?

Joseph Paynter

Carberry

1899-1918

George Francis Penny (1892-?) [see Art Craft Studio]

Winnipeg (489 Portage Avenue)

1917-1923

Penrose & Bowles

Winnipeg

c1879

James Penrose (1845-1918)

Winnipeg

1871-1880

John Percival

Manitou

1897

Lou Perrin

?

c1969

Photo Button Company

Winnipeg

c1908

Photo Jewellery Manufacturing Company

Winnipeg

1903-1905

Ping Pong Gallery

Brandon

1905

Frederick Pollard

Barnardo

1906-1907

Charles Popham

Selkirk, Winnipeg

1904-1906

Clarke Popham

Winnipeg

c1955-c1969

Popular Photo Studio

Winnipeg

1905

David S. G. Portigal (1912-1990)

Winnipeg

1955-?

Sydney Edgar Prest (1873-1925)

Manitou, Morden

1904-1913

Adrian Price

?

c1981

Princess Studio (see Arthur Lionel Forde)

Winnipeg (530 Main Street, 528½ Main Street)

1910-1914

William Pullar (c1868-1894)

Winnipeg

1884-1893

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Edgar John Ransom (1874-1956)

Winnipeg

?

William K. Ranton

Holland, MacGregor, Treherne

1904-1914

Alfred John Rawson (1879-1950) - see Ritz Studio

Dauphin, Portage la Prairie

1907-1913,
1927-1944

Cecil Heppenstall Reeves (1883-1969)

Dauphin

1913-1927

Leo Reidke

Winnipeg

c1976-1990s

Reidy & Edwards

The Pas

1914-1915

Reliance Studios

Winnipeg (616½ Main)

circa 1915

Rembrandt Studio

Winnipeg

1909-1910

R. S. Reynolds

Winnipeg

1903-1904

Reynolds & Stetson

Portage la Prairie

1905

Frederick Rice

Gladstone

1904

Elmer Richardson

MacGregor

1905-1909

Christian Harold Richter (1862-1938) [1]

Winnipeg

c1890-1891

Ritz Studio - see Alfred John Rawson

Dauphin

1927-1944

John Roberts

Brandon

1916-1917

Ben Robinson

Minnedosa

circa 1905

Robinson Studio

Winnipeg

1907-1925

Roblin Photo Studio

Roblin

1948-2006

William Wight Robson (1865-1946)

Winnipeg

1906-1946

Edwin S. Rogers

Winnipeg

1906-1907

Ross, Best & Company

Winnipeg

1884-1887

Alexander J. Ross

Winnipeg

?

John Ross

Winnipeg

1882-1888

Rossie & Company

Winnipeg

1900-1904

Edgar C. Rossie (1875-?)

Winnipeg

1899

Thomas Rossie (?-?)

Winnipeg

1905

John F. Rowe

Portage la Prairie

1882-1903

Royal Studio

Winnipeg

1909-1910

Walter Royle (c1887-1955)

Pipestone

1920s

Russell Photo Studio

Winnipeg (200 Pacific Avenue)

1910-1918

Fred L. Russell

Brandon

c1885

S. G. Russell

Winnipeg

c1907

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St. Boniface Studio (Gaston Lorimy, Angelo Accetti)

Winnipeg [St. Boniface]

1911-1925

William Brethour St. John (1849-1931)

Minnedosa, Neepawa

1887-1929

F. G. Salt

Brandon

1913-1925

Alfred Sandell

Treherne

1918-1925

Albert Sandford

Holland

1904-1908

Saunders Art Studio

Napinka

1912

Saunders & Eaton

Napinka, Reston, Waskada

1906-1911

Brabazon Joseph Saunders (1870-1954)

Napinka, Reston, Waskada

1905-1913

Schachter Brothers

Winnipeg

1911-1912

Saul Schachter

Winnipeg

?

Seph Schachter

Winnipeg

?

Schiff & Garratt

Winnipeg

?

A. Schmidt

Winnipeg

c1909

Scott & Anderson

Killarney

1905

Scott & Edwards

Killarney, Pilot Mound

1905-1910

Scott & Pillsworth

Winnipeg

1906-1907

Don W. Scott

?

?

Ashel Herbert “Ace” Scouten (1850-1937)

Shoal Lake

1886-1901

Searl & Company

Winnipeg

1884-1886

Searl & Jones

Winnipeg

c1884

George William Searl (c1846-?)

Winnipeg

1883-1899

J. F. Searle

Winnipeg

1887-1889

Carman Seifert

?

c1990

Benzion Shapira (1894-1967)

Winnipeg

1912-1967

Shapira’s Photo (See Benzion Shapira)

Winnipeg

c1916

Joseph B. Shaw

Winnipeg

c1916

Shaw & Alexander - See Fred Grant Alexander

Carman

?

Sheffield

Russell

c1932

Sibbald & Son

Winnipeg

1907-1908

John Sibbald

?

?

Ron Siemens

Winnipeg

c1985-1999

T. C. Sims

?

?

Johan Alfred Sjogren (1865-1951)

Hilltop, Erickson, Wasagaming

1910s-1930s

Percy S. Skuse (1882-1957)

Pope

c1905

Albert Smith

Shoal Lake, Strathclair, Winnipeg

1906-1925

A. R. F. Smith

Russell

1900

Clark Jacques Smith (1879-1968)

Brandon

1911-1961

E. Barton Smith

Winnipeg

c1911

Edgar Smith (1874-1955)

Glenboro

1905-1925

Edward John Crozier Smith (1856-1934)

Winnipeg

1892-1907

Ernest R. T. Smith

Carberry, Chortitz, Gladstone, Glenboro, Winnipeg

1891-1901

J. C. R. T. Smith

Glenboro

1894

Keith Smith

?

c1985

Jack M. Smordin

Dauphin

1918-1925

A. J. Smythe

Minnedosa

1883-1884

I. B. Smythe

Winnipeg

c1910

Sydney A. Smythe

Minnedosa

1883-1884

Smiths Photo Studio

Winnipeg (405 Selkirk Avenue)

1920s

Smythe Brothers

Minnedosa

1883-1884

William Sones

Carberry

1918-1925

Alexander Addison Blake Sovereen (1863-1942)

Minitonas Tent Town

1899

Swan River

1900-1916

J. Fred Spalding

Winnipeg

1930s

G. W. Sparling

Portage la Prairie

1903-1915

Mary Barrett Speechly (1873-1968)

?

?

Hollis D. Speers

Brandon

1906-1915

A. B. Spence

?

?

Sheila Spence

Winnipeg

1990s-2010s

Henry W. Sproule (1867-?)

?

?

R. A. Stafford

Portage la Prairie

1902-1904

R. S. Stafford

Winnipeg

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

Winnipeg

1894-c1912

Steele & Wing

Winnipeg

1887-1892

Steele, Mitchell Limited

Winnipeg

1910-1912

Frederick W. Steele (1860-?)

Winnipeg

1887-1897

William Butler Steele

?

?

Charles B. Stephens (1866-?)

Deloraine, Hamiota

1889-1907

Eva Stevens

Winnipeg

1902

Frederick “Fred” Stevens (1856-1939)

Baldur

c1890-?

D. R. Stiles

Winnipeg

1860

Lisa Stinner-Kun

Winnipeg

2010s

Thomas Storey

Winnipeg

1906

Robert Strain & Company

Winnipeg

c1912

Strong & Company

Winnipeg

1906-1907

Harvey James Strong (1870-?)

Winnipeg

1908-1912

Ida W. Strong

Winnipeg

c1911

Lawrence Adne Stuckey (1921-2001)

Brandon

?

Sunbeam Gallery

Winnipeg

1876-1877

Sutherland & Company

Winnipeg

1894

Bill Synychych

?

c1983

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Yosh Tashiro (1920-1989)

Portage la Prairie

1952-1985

George W. Taylor (1872-?)

?

?

Robert Ross “Bob” Taylor (1940-2013)

Winnipeg

?-2013

William Aiken Taylor (1884-1952)

Winnipeg

1911-?

Peter S. Tenycke

Oak Lake

1901-1908

Charles J. Thacker (1874-?)

Winnipeg

c1899

Alexander Barton Thom [A. B. Thom] (1849-1926)

Itinerant, Brandon, Stonewall, Wawanesa

1880s-1904

W. A. Thomson

Douglas

1896-1899

E. Thorbergson

Baldur

c1916

Bjornulfur Thorlacius (1880-1962) [1]

Winnipeg

1904-1922

Diana Thorneycroft

Winnipeg

1980s-present

Bjarni Thorsteinsson (1868-1943) [1]

Gimli, Selkirk

1910-1925

Tilley & Ramsdale

Minnedosa

1907

Harold Herbert Tilley (1876-1959)

Minnedosa

1904-1926

Auguste Joseph Tissot (1878-1940)

St. Vital

c1922

Walter Toews

?

c1971

A. E. Topley

Morden

1905

W. T. Towns

Dauphin

1901

Herbert Israel Townsend (1855-1942)

Carman

1896-1899

E. G. Treilhard

Dauphin

1900

Ernest S. Treilhard

Portage la Prairie

1890-1892

Trojan’s Studio

Winnipeg [877 Selkirk Avenue]

?

Tune & Company

Winnipeg

c1885

Twentieth Century Photo Company

Brandon

1906

John Tyler

?

c1979

Joseph Burr Tyrrell (1858-1957)

Northern Manitoba

1887-1891

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Andrew Ulicki

Winnipeg (910 Main Street)

1964-2013

Cheryl Ulicki

Winnipeg (910 Main Street)

1964-2013

Arthur Ullyet

Carman

1889-1890

Unique Novelty Company

Winnipeg

1907

Universal Studios

Winnipeg

circa 1955

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F. E. Vaillancourt

Ste. Rose du Lac

1916-1923

Veasey & Bland

Winnipeg

1887-1888

H. Veasey

Winnipeg

?

Victory Photo Studio [David Samuel Charach]

Winnipeg

?

George Oswald Viertel (1875-1949) [see John C. Voigt]

Gretna

1896-1900

Violet Ray Art Studio

Winnipeg (555 Main Street)

circa 1920

Virden Photo Studio

Virden

?

John Christian Voigt (1866-1896)

Gretna

1892-1896

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Frederick Walford

Rapid City

1901-1904

Edward Walker (1836-1924)

Millwood

1905-1907

Wallis & Hayes

Winnipeg

c1908

H. B. Wallis

Winnipeg

?

Walters Studio

?

?

D. H. Ward

?

?

Ted Wardle

Winnipeg

1946-?

A. J. Watkinson

Winnipeg

1880

Watson Photographers [see Pauline Watson and Robert Watson]

Winnipeg, Selkirk

1975-1995

J. A. Watson

Melita

1896-1899

Pauline Watson

Winnipeg, Selkirk

1976-1995

Robert Watson

Winnipeg, Selkirk

1975-1995

W. J. Watson

Souris

1892-1894

F. E. Watts

Melita

1905-1908

Weaver & Company

Dauphin

1914-1915

James Weaver

Dauphin

1913-1914

Godfrey M. Weberg

Stonewall

1883-1886

Weekes Studio

Brandon

c1923-1929

Frank Whiteford Weekes (1886-1949)

Brandon, Virden

1908-1928

James Weidman

Manitou

1885

Godfrey M. Welberg

Stonewall

1884-1887

Herbert Welford (1865-?)

Winnipeg (Main & Pacific Avenue)

1895-1908

Eva Wells

Winnipeg

?

Western Art Gallery

Virden, Winnipeg

1906-c1912

Western Photograph Company

Napinka

1914-1915

Marie A. White

Morris

1914-1915

Whitehorse

Riding Mountain

1908

H. H. Wiebe

Gretna

1904-1905

Willson’s Studio

Winnipeg

1909

Fred S. Willson

Hamiota, Shoal Lake, Winnipeg

1906-c1910

J. W. Wilson & Company

Winnipeg

c1910

Wilson & Palmer

Winnipeg

c1909

James D. Wilson

Dugald

1900

W. J. Wilson

Dugald

1904-1906

William Edward Wing

Winnipeg

1887-1892

Winnipeg Amateur Photo Supply Company

Winnipeg

1909-1910

Winnipeg Art Gallery

Winnipeg

c1880

Winnipeg Electric Studio

Winnipeg (Main Street)

c1908-1912

Winnipeg Photo Company

Napinka, Reston, Waskada

1904-1913

Winnipeg Photo Company (Bert J. Flynn, Henry Flynn)

Winnipeg (422½ Portage Avenue)

1911-1913

Winnipeg Portrait Company

Winnipeg

1894

Winnipeg Portrait Studio

Winnipeg

1895-1896

Winnipeg Sales Company

Winnipeg

circa 1910

Henry Crawley Wood (1866-1951)

Winnipeg (593 Main Street)

1901-1902

Justus K. Wright

?

?

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Sheldon Zettler

?

1973

Sources:

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, 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: 14 January 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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