Rowley, Ernest Joseph^{[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15]}

1874 -

• Name	Rowley, Ernest Joseph
  	VARIANT NAME: Rowley, E.J.
  Birth	3 Feb 1874	Coventry, Warwickshire, Eng., UK   [17, 18]
  	In these Jul 1914 border crossing records into the USA, he gives his age as 32 (birth year ca. 1882). In a USA record noting his enlistment in the CEF, he gave his birth year as 1881. [16]
  Gender	Male
  Marriage	9 Jun 1897	Mono Centre, Dufferin, ON   [18]
  	Bride: Gertrude Florence McMillan
  Business Address/Year	1900-1902	Toronto, ON
  	Address undetermined
  Business Address/Year	1906-1908	Vancouver, BC
  	Address: 723 Georgia St. Vancouver, BC Canada
  Person ID	I1693	Camera Workers | R, vol. 2, 1901-1950
  Last Modified	24 May 2020

  
  

• Notes

  STATUS: Commercial. BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: While working in Toronto he copyrighted a photograph bearing the influence of the Pictorialist school. According to a 1906 Vancouver World article, he won the "grand prize" in the 1900 Paris world's fair, along with many awards for his photography exhibited in eastern Canada. In the 1901 Canada census he is working in Toronto as a photographer and at age 25 married to Gertrude [McMillan] (age 23, born 4 Mar 1878). They have a son, Gordon Wilford, age 2, born 11 Dec 1898 (he claimed 11 Mar 1898 on his Canadian Expeditionary Force attestation paper). In Aug 1900 while in Toronto, he was sued by a young woman over the use of her portrait for advertising by a Toronto drugstore. The case was eventually dismissed. E.J. Rowley moved to Vancouver around 1906 and his business address was on the north side of Georgia St. at the corner of Howe St., a few doors away from R.H. Trueman's studio. He was appointed as a photographer by the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway and travelled to the railway's terminus at Prince Rupert early in 1907 to take photographs. He had a studio sale of views in Feb 1907. In Jul 1914 he travelled to San Francisco, CA, and the passenger list noted his occupation as a photographer and that he had last lived in Summerland, BC, where his nearest relative was his father Joseph, a jeweller. While residing in San Diego, CA, and employed as a photographer he enlisted in the Canadian Expeditonary Force in Jul 1917. He claimed to be unmarried at this time. His name does not appear in the San Diego business directories between 1915 to 1917. [19, 20] IDENTIFYING MARKS: Print mount bottom centre captioned "E.J. Rowley Toronto Ont". [2]

  
  

• Sources

  [S872] COLLECTION: BL. Print [S152] COLLECTION: OOA. Prints [S916] Ottawa Journal, 16 Aug 1900, 1. "Suit Over a Photo: Toronto Girl Takes Action to Protect Her Face" [S916] Ottawa Journal, 4 Oct 1900, 1. "Use of Girl's Portrait" [S627] (Vancouver) World, (Vancouver: World), 1 Sep 1906, 6. "The Industries of Vancouver" Describes a photo exhibit in his storefront window. [S627] (Vancouver) World, (Vancouver: World), 16 Jan 1907, ?. "Goes to Prince Rupert" FindAGrave.com: Ernest Joseph Rowley: URL (accessed 23 May 2020): https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/181051674#view-photo=157724351 [S627] (Vancouver) World, (Vancouver: World), 6 Feb 1907, 10. "Sale of Views" FindAGrave.com: Ernest Joseph Rowley: URL (accessed 23 May 2020): https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/181051674#view-photo=157801385 [S400] Patricia Pierce, Pierce (1985), (Don Mills, Ont.: Stoddart, 1985), 124. [S787] HENVAN06, (Vancouver: Henderson Publishing, 1906). Vancouver: not listed In the street directory, 723 Georgia is listed as vacant. [S788] HENVAN07, (Vancouver: Henderson Publishing, 1907), 725. Vancouver: Rowley E J photographer 723 Georgia h 1367 Georgia [S790] HENVAN08, (Vancouver: Henderson Publishing, 1908), 908. Vancouver: Rowley E J photographer 723 Georgia h 1367 Georgia [S791] HENVAN09, (Vancouver: Henderson Publishing, 1909). Vancouver: not listed [S698] HENVAN10, (Vancouver: Henderson Publishing, 1910). Vancouver: not listed [S732] HEN10, (Vancouver: Henderson Publishing, 1910). Summerland and Vancouver: not listed [S973] W.A. Jeffries, JEFVERNON13, (Vernon, BC: W.A. Jeffries, 1913). Summerland and West Summerland: not listed Summerland: Rowley Jos (Daisy M) jeweler [S924] Ancestry.ca (Web site). U.S., Border Crossings from Canada to U.S., 1895-1960 U.S., Records of Aliens Pre-Examined in Canada, 1904-1954 [S647] Census of Canada 1901. Rowley Ernest ... [birth date] 3 Feb [year is blank] [age] 25 ... [immigrated] 1883 [or 1882] ... Photographer Province of ON, District no. 118 Toronto West, Sub-district no. 41A, Polling sub-division no. B30 [30B] in City [of] Toronto, p. 17, line 19 [S667] Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, FamilySearch.org (Web site). Ernest Joseph Rowley family tree URL (accessed 23 May 2020): https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LT6R-1DM [S730] Personnel Records of the First World War (Web site), (Library and Archives Canada). Rowley, Gordon Wilford URL (accessed 23 May 2020): https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/military-heritage/first-world-war/personnel-records/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=605566 [S667] Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, FamilySearch.org (Web site). Name: Rowley Gordon Wilford Date of Birth: 11 Dec 1898 Name of Father: Ernest J. Rowley Naiden Name of Mother: Gertrude McMillan "Ontario Births, 1869-1912," URL (accessed 23 May 2020): https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KZ14-8HK