Camera Workers, 1858-1950

The British Columbia, Alaska and Yukon Photographic Directory, 1858-1950

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McCrea, Mrs. Lavinia[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]

Female 1867 - 1951  (84 years)


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  • Name McCrea, Lavinia 
    • VARIANT NAME: McCrea, Lavina; McCrea, Mrs. Roderick Dhu.
    Title Mrs. 
    Birth 1867  Westminster Township, Middlesex County, ON Find all individuals with events at this location  [9, 10, 11] 
    • Ancestry.ca family tree gives birth date of 1867, other sources give birth date of around 1878.
    Gender Female 
    Marriage 30 Oct 1920  Vancouver, BC Find all individuals with events at this location  [9] 
    Groom: McCrea, Roderick Dhu 
    Business Address/Year 1923-1927  Victoria, BC Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Address:
    625 Fort Street, no. 213
    Pemberton Building
    Victoria, BC
    Canada 
    Death 6 Apr 1951  ON Find all individuals with events at this location  [12] 
    Burial Greenwood Cemetery, Sault Sainte Marie, ON Find all individuals with events at this location  [12] 
    Association McCrea Portrait Studio (Relationship: Proprietor) 
    Association Farmer, Lavinia (Relationship: Family name) 
    Person ID I1804  Camera Workers | M, vol. 2, 1901-1950
    Last Modified 2 Apr 2024 

  • Documents
    Mrs. Lavinia McCrea news, <i>Victoria Daily Times</i>, 2 Jul 1924, p. 6.    		Mrs. Lavinia McCrea news, Victoria Daily Times, 2 Jul 1924, p. 6.
    In a talk to the Kumtuks Club of Victoria she described her experience photographing for five years the inside of the second largest steel plant "in America".

  • Notes 
    • STATUS: Studio.
    • BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: At the time of her marriage in Vancouver under her birth name of Lavinia Farmer in Vancouver she gave her occupation as a photographer. Following her marriage she moved to her husband's residence in Saanich.

      See the separate listing under Farmer, Lavinia.

      The 1921 Canada census does not record an occupation for her. In her 1923 Victoria business directory she shared the same address in the Pemberton Building as her husband, Roderick Dhu McCrea, a civil engineer.

      She and her husband eventually returned to Ontario.

  • Sources 
    1. [S742] WRI22, (Vancouver, BC: Wrigley Directories, c1922).
      Victoria: not listed

    2. [S809] WRI23, (Vancouver: Wrigley Directories, 1923), 1749.
      Victoria: McCrea Mrs Lavinia photog 213 Pemberton bldg r 68 Obed av (Saan)

    3. [S757] WRI24, (Vancouver: Wrigley Directories, 1924), 1295.
      Victoria: McCrea Mrs Lavinia photo 213 625 Fort r 68 Obed av

    4. [S758] WRI25, (Vancouver: Wrigley Directories, 1925), 1379.
      Victoria: McCrea Mrs Lavinia photog 213, 625 Fort r 68 Obed

    5. [S759] WRI26, (Vancouver: Wrigley Directories, 1926), 1499.
      Victoria: McCrea Mrs Lavinia prop McCrea Portrait Studio r 68 Obed

    6. [S760] WRI27, (Vancouver: Wrigley Directories, 1927), 1553.
      Victoria: McCrea Mrs Lavinia prop McCrea Portrait Studio h 68 Obed

    7. [S761] WRI28, (Vancouver: Wrigley Directories, 1928).
      Victoria: not listed

    8. [S762] WRI29, (Vancouver: Wrigley Directories, 1929).
      Victoria: not listed

    9. [S670] BVIPA marriage registration.
      Registration no. 1920-09-222558 (microfilm B12905); digital facsimile URL (accessed 30 Nov 2020): http://search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/53726d17-1caa-434c-8b38-e89c3af261d5

    10. [S917] Census of Canada 1921.
      Province of BC, District no. 19 Nanaimo, Enumeration sub-district no. 45 in South Saanich, p. 21, line 30

    11. [S924] Ancestry.ca (Web site).
      Family tree of Lavina Farmer
      URL (accessed 2 Apr 2024): https://www.ancestrylibrary.ca/family-tree/person/tree/50306874/person/420177514880/facts

    12. [S832] Find a Grave (Web site).
      Lavina Farmer McCrea
      URL (accessed 2 Apr 2024): https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/55690992/lavina-mccrea