Holliday, Charles William^{[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26]}

1870 - 1955  (85 years)

• Name	Holliday, Charles William
  	VARIANT NAME: Holliday, W.H.
  Born	20 Apr 1870	London, Eng., UK   [27]
  Gender	Male
  Business Address/Year	1889?-1892	Okanagan Valley, BC
  Business Address/Year	1892-1899	Vernon, BC
  Marriage	8 Nov 1905	Armstrong, BC   [28]
  	Bride: Elizabeth Harding
  Business Address/Year	1899-1936	Armstrong, BC
  Where Active (Non-Specific Address)	19--?	Enderby, BC
  Died	18 Jul 1955	Victoria, BC   [27]
  Cremated	21 Jul 1955	Royal Oak Crematorium, Saanich, BC   [27]
  Person ID	I206	Camera Workers | H, vol. 1, 1858-1900
  Last Modified	8 Aug 2019

  
  

• Documents

  C.W. Holliday's ad, Midway Advance, 1894 04 26. A.D. Worgan also had an ad on the same page for his photographic business in Vernon.

  
  

• Notes

  STATUS: Commercial. BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: He is supposed to have arrived in the Okanagan in 1889. He was listed as a farm labourer in the 1891 Canada census. He became a professional photographer when he discovered a need for such a trade. He advertised in the first issue of the Vernon News and moved to that town in 1892. He relocated to Armstrong about 1899 and retired to Victoria in 1935 (death registration record information provided by his widow Elizabeth Holliday) or 1937; the latter date would be more correct as he was listed in the 1935 and 1936 directories as a photographer in Armstrong. His widow indicated for his death registration record that he had been in Canada for 50 years (1905), however, that was clearly an error. She may have confused, in her stress, their marriage year with his year of immigration or simply not known the latter. Holliday was also an amateur painter of the Okanagan landscape. IDENTIFYING MARKS: print surface may be captioned and marked "Holliday." REFERENCES: Holliday (1948); Vernon News, 1891 05 14; Kelowna Courier, 1949 06 09; Armstrong Advertiser, 1955 07 28 (obit.); Colonist, 1955 07 23 (obit.); Letter, Vernon Museum & Archives to Mattison, 1981 11 06

  
  

• Sources

  [S46] COLLECTION: BVIPA. [S142] COLLECTION: BVMA. [S720] Census of Canada 1891. Province of BC, District no. 5 Yale, Sub-district Spallumcheen Division 3, p. 8, line 20. Enumeration date: 6 Jul 1891 [S339] Voters List, (Victoria, B.C.: Province of British Columbia, 1874-), Ref. NW 324.1 B862., 1898, 1900. Enderby [S339] Voters List, (Victoria, B.C.: Province of British Columbia, 1874-), Ref. NW 324.1 B862., 1916, 1920, 1924, 1933. Armstrong. The 1920, 1924 and 1933 listings give his occupation as farmer. [S32] WIL93, Williams' B.C. Directory Co., comp., (Victoria, B.C.: Printed by the Victoria Printing Company, 1893), xvi. Enderby [S33] WIL94, Williams' B.C. Directory Co., comp., (Victoria, B.C.: Williams' B.C. Directory Co., 1894), 192. Vernon [S34] WIL95, (Victoria, B.C.: Williams' B.C. Directory Co., 1895), 187. Vernon [S36] HEN97, (Victoria, B.C.: Henderson Publishing Co., 1897). Armstrong, Enderby and Vernon: not listed [S38] HEN98, (Victoria, B.C.: Henderson Publishing Co., 1898). Armstrong, Enderby and Vernon: not listed [S40] WIL99, Williams, R.T., comp., (Victoria, B.C.: Province Publishing Co., 1899), 40. Armstrong [S39] HEN99, (Victoria, B.C.: Henderson Publishing Co., 1899). Armstrong, Enderby, Spallumcheen and Vernon: not listed [S41] HEN00, (Victoria, B.C.: Henderson Publishing Co., 1900), 188. Armstrong [S781] HEN02, (Vancouver: Henderson Publishing, 1902), 92. Armstrong [S782] HEN03, (Vancouver: Henderson Publishing, 1903), 92. Armstrong [S783] HEN04, (Vancouver: Henderson Publishing, 1904), 92. Armstrong [S785] HEN05, (Vancouver: Henderson Publishing, 1905), 46. Armstrong [S732] HEN10, (Vancouver: Henderson Publishing, 1910), 696. Armstrong [S740] WRI18, (Vancouver, BC: Wrigley Directories, c1918), 77. Armstrong: not listed but Armstrong: "Holliday W mixed farming" [S738] WRI19, (Vancouver, BC: Wrigley Directories, c1919), 117. Armstrong A W. Holliday in Armstrong is also listed with an occupation of mixed farming [S739] WRI20, (Vancouver, BC: Wrigley Directories, c1920), 90. Armstrong [S758] WRI25, (Vancouver: Wrigley Directories, 1925), 44. Armstrong [S763] WRI30, (Vancouver: Wrigley Directories, 1930), 215. Armstrong [S769] SUN35, (Vancouver: Sun Directories, 1935), 414. Armstrong [S770] SUN36, (Vancouver: Sun Directories, 1936), 63. Armstrong [S771] SUN37, (Vancouver: Sun Directories, 1937). Armstrong and Victoria: not listed [S652] BVIPA death registration index. Registration no. 1955-09-007655 (microfilm reel B13224); digital facsimile URL (accessed 11 Feb 2017): http://search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/50426599-7f14-40fb-b835-237d5f84cbf8 [S670] BVIPA marriage registration. Registration no. 1905-09-166555 (microfilm reel B11386); digital facsimile URL (accessed 11 Feb 2017): http://search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/c2501d85-68b5-441b-aaba-5eca80e23e8a