Hall, James Deakin^[1]

1854 - 1936  (82 years)

• Name	Hall, James Deakin
  Born	1854	Londonderry, Ireland
  Gender	Male
  Business Address/Year	1884	Victoria, BC
  	Studio opened 9 Nov 1884
  	Address: Government St. (over Victoria House) Hall and Lowe Victoria, BC Canada
  Business Address/Year	1887-1891	Vancouver, BC
  	Address: 416 Cordova St. Vancouver, BC Canada
  Business Address/Year	1892	Vancouver, BC
  	Address: 518 Cordova St. Vancouver, BC Canada
  Home Address/Year	1892	Vancouver, BC
  	Address: 1608 Burrard St. Vancouver, BC Canada
  Died	3 Aug 1936	Oak Bay, BC   [2]
  Association	Hall and Lowe (Relationship: Partner)
  Association	Hall, Robert Hanley (Relationship: Brother)
  Association	Vancouver Photographic Company (Relationship: Owner)
  Person ID	I173	Camera Workers | H, vol. 1, 1858-1900
  Last Modified	13 Nov 2021

  
  

• Documents » Slide Show		Hall and Lowe's ad from Trout's Prospectors' Manual (1886).
  		Vancouver Photographic Company's ad, Vancouver World, 14 Jul 1892.
  		Hall and Lowe news item, San Francisco Journal of Commerce, BC Edition, Feb 1888, p. 2.
  		Hall and Lowe ad, San Francisco Journal of Commerce, BC Edition, Feb 1888, p. 4.
  		Hall and Lowe news article, Victoria Colonist, 2 Sep 1884, p. 3. About Hall's occupancy of part of the Denny building on Government St. over the Victoria House store. Hall was later joined by Skene Lowe who operated Hall and Lowe in Victoria while Hall eventually relocated to Vancouver by 1887.
  		Skene Lowe article, Victoria Colonist, Special Ed., 5 Apr 1896, p. 7, part 1.
  		Skene Lowe article, Victoria Colonist, Special Ed., 5 Apr 1896, p. 7, part 2.
  		Hall and Lowe cartouche from the verso of a card mount.
  		Hall and Lowe news, Victoria Colonist, 4 Jun 1885, p. 3.

  
  

• Notes

  STATUS: Commercial. BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: According to an 1883 newspaper article, Hall immigrated with his parents in 1867 to Canada (Ontario) and settled in Brampton. After moving to Toronto and working for R. Walker and Sons, he then started with Notman and Fraser, photographers, about 1869. He moved to Winnipeg in 1881 and formed a partnership with William Johnston as Johnston and Hall. By 1883 Hall had taken on a new partner, Skene Lowe. The partnership operated as Hall and Lowe. Lowe had moved to Victoria by 1885. Hall had visited Victoria and his brother Robert H. in Fort Simpson in the summer of 1884 and that may have prompted Lowe to relocate. Hall initially opened the Hall and Lowe studio in November 1884. Hall was reported doing itinerant photographic work in Medicine Hat in Sep 1886, and moved to the coast in Jul 1887 the Vancouver Photographic Company was opened that Oct. The Hall and Lowe studio in Victoria continued to operate under that name. The partnership was dissolved in May 1892 and Hall sold the Vancouver studio to David Wadds. Hall became sheriff of Vancouver, a post he held until 1917. REFERENCES: WIL88; HEN89; WIL90; WIL91; WIL92; BVIPA GR-1304, file 2/37 (probate); Winnipeg Daily Sun, 1883 12 24/11; Colonist, 1884 08 19/3, 1885 06 03/3, 1896 04 05 (Special Edition); Winnipeg Daily Times, 1884 08 30, "The Frigid Zone"; Medicine Hat Times, 1886 09 11; Manitoba Sun, 1887 07 18 and 26; News-Advertiser, 1887 10 15/4; World, 1891 (Souvenir Edition), 1892 05 02/8, 1892 05 17/1, 1892 07 14/8; Province, 1936 08 (obit. incorrectly identified birthplace as near Milton, ON).

  
  

• Sources

  [S483] Manitoba Photographers, 1858 to Present (Web site), Manitoba Historical Society, (Winnipeg, MB: Manitoba Historical Society) (Reliability: 2). Reproduces a magnified view of the Hall & Lowe Winnipeg business with possibly one of the two owners standing in the doorway. [S652] BVIPA death registration index. Registration no. 1936-09-517076 (microfilm reel B13157)