Green, Rowland Edward^{[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18]}

1848 - 1917  (69 years)

• Name	Green, Rowland Edward
  Birth	1848	Eng., UK   [19]
  Christening	5 Nov 1848	Bebington, Cheshire, Eng., UK   [19]
  Gender	Male
  Business Address/Year	1870-1872	Victoria, BC
  	Address: Fort St. south side near Government St. Victoria, BC Canada
  Marriage	31 Aug 1877	Victoria, BC   [20]
  	Bride: Elizabeth Maud Le Clerc
  Marriage	17 Jun 1911	Vancouver, BC   [21]
  	Bride: Emily Mary Walter Smith
  Death	24 Feb 1917	Vancouver, BC   [22]
  Association	Green Brothers (Relationship: Partner; Manager)
  Association	Green, George R. (Relationship: Brother)
  Association	Fort Street Gallery (Relationship: Co-proprietor; Proprietor)
  Person ID	I232	Camera Workers | G, vol. 1, 1858-1900
  Last Modified	4 Nov 2021

  
  

• Documents » Slide Show		Green Brothers ad, Victoria Colonist, 13 Oct 1870, p. 4. The Green Brothers had acquired Frederick Dally's photographs in September 1870 and this was their first ad in which they represented the images as their own. This ad was still running in Feb 1871. The same ad was published in the Victoria Daily Standard newspaper.
  		Green Brothers imprint, ca. 1870-1871. Since the Green Brothers acquired Frederick Dally's stock, it is not surprising that the "N.B." note at the bottom almost entirely matches the wording on one of Dally's imprints (Dally, BC Archives, Visual Records catalogue no. HP002599). Image courtesy of BC Archives, Barnard album no. 27, p. 17.
  		Frederick Dally news, Victoria Colonist, 27 Sep 1870, p. 3. About the sale of his studio to the Green Brothers and a sale, by Dally, of 12,000 cartes-de-visites of Indigenous people.
  		G.R. or R.E. Green news item, Victoria Colonist, 21 Oct 1870, p. 3. About one or the other Green brother's trip on HMS Sparrowhawk with Governor Anthony Musgrave and the Colonial Secretary. The ship did not go past the northern end of Vancouver Island and Knight Inlet, and thus never made it to the Stikine River.
  		G.R. or R.E. Green news article, Victoria Colonist, 4 Nov 1870, p. 3. About one or the other Green brother's trip on HMS Sparrowhawk with Governor Anthony Musgrave and the Colonial Secretary. The article notes that photographs were taken by Green at Knight Inlet. This was three years before Richard Maynard visited the same location.
  		Green Brothers news, Victoria Colonist, 28 Oct 1870, p. 3. About their exhibiting Dally's photographs at the agricultural show.
  		Green Brothers news, Victoria Colonist, 29 Sep 1870, p. 3. About their exhibiting Dally's photos at the annual show of the Agricultural and Horticultural Society which was held on a property on Cook St.
  		Fort Street Gallery ad, Victoria Colonist, 12 Feb 1872, p. 2. This ad notes the remodelling of the studio and its new owner, R.E. Green, formerly of the Green Brothers.
  		Fort Street Gallery news, Victoria Colonist, 17 Mar 1872, p. 3. This item states that the negatives are leaving the colony, however, in Aug 1872 an auction was held of Dally's camera, negatives and darkroom equipment.
  		Frederick Dally ad, Victoria Colonist, 15 Aug 1872, p. 3. The auctioneers Plummer and Pagden sold Dally's camera, negatives and darkroom equipment on 15 Aug 1872.
  		Frederick Dally news, Victoria Colonist, 15 Aug 1872, p. 3. About the auction of Dally's camera, negatives and darkroom equipment by auctioneers Plummer and Pagden on 15 Aug 1872.
  		Green Brothers ad, Victoria Colonist, 30 Jul 1871, p. 2. "Rembrandt photographs" refers to a lighting style intended to mimic that employed by Rembrandt the artist.
  		Green Brothers news, Victoria Daily Standard, 10 May 1871, p. 3. This little item describes a trick photograph similar to what Mrs. R. Maynard experimented with through her multiple exposures about 20 years later.

  
  

• Notes

  STATUS: Commercial. BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: He was a partner-manager with brother George R. in the Green Brothers studio, then briefly managed the studio solo in 1872 under the name Fort Street Gallery. The remainder of his career was spent as an accountant, a real estate agent and a clerk for private and government entities. In 1903 he was listed as a canvasser for photographer P.T. Timms' brother G.F. Timms who was a printer. Green was a lieutenant and then a captain in a Victoria militia unit in the early to mid-1880s while still in Victoria. He moved to Vancouver in the late 1880s and spent the rest of his life there. He was married twice in 1877 and 1911.

  
  

• Sources

  [S666] BVIPA archival records. Newspaper Index. [S14] MAL71, (Victoria, V.I.: E. Mallandine, 1871), 15. "Green Rowland E. (see Green Bros.,) Fort street" [S15] MAL74, (Victoria, B.C.: E. Mallandine, 1874), 14. "Green Rowland E., Victoria" [S16] HIB77, (Victoria, B.C.: T.N. Hibben and Co., 1877). Victoria: not listed [S17] WIL82, (Victoria, B.C.: R.T. Williams, 1882), 43. Victoria: "Green R E, teller Dominion Govt Savings Bank, res Ross Bay Villa" [S19] Woltz, William, comp., WIL85, (Victoria, B.C.: R.T. Williams, 1885), 40. Victoria: "Green R.E., teller, Dominion Government savings bank, res. Ross Bay Villa" [S20] Mallandine, Edward, MAL87, (Victoria, B.C.: E. Mallandine, R.T. Williams, 1887), 40. Victoria: "Green Rowland E., clerk, Bastion st., res. Humboldt st." [S7] Draper, Thomas, comp., WILVAN88, (Vancouver, B.C.: R.T. Williams), 16. "Green R. E., accountant, Water st." [S21] Henderson, James, comp., HEN89, (Victoria, B.C.: Leonard George Henderson, 1889), 381. Vancouver: "Green Capt. Rowland Edward, real estate agent, 6 Oppenheimer, res in rear of 113 Hastings E" [S22] Draper, Thomas, comp., WIL89, (Victoria, B.C.: R.T. Williams, 1889), 466. Vancouver: "Green R E, real estate and employment agent 6 Oppenheimer res 219 Prior" [S34] WIL95, (Victoria, B.C.: Williams' B.C. Directory Co., 1895), 561. Vancouver: "Green, R E, res 626 Jervis" [S41] HEN00, (Victoria, B.C.: Henderson Publishing Co., 1900), 824. Vancouver: "Green, Rowland E., accountant, bds 3 Water." [S781] HEN02, (Vancouver: Henderson Publishing, 1902), 666. Vancouver: "Green, Rowland E., accountant, bds. Sunnyside Hotel." [S782] HEN03, (Vancouver: Henderson Publishing, 1903), 694. Vancouver: "Green, Rowland E., canvasser Timms & Co., 524 Pender, bds Sunnyside Ho." [S698] HENVAN10, (Vancouver: Henderson Publishing, 1910), 767. Vancouver: "Green Rolland [sic] E clk Govt Timber Office lvs 1832 3rd Ave W" [S748] HENVAN15, (Vancouver: Henderson Directory Co., 1915), 678. Vancouver: "Green Rowland E clk Land Registry Office h 1752 3rd Av W" [S749] HENVAN16, (Vancouver: Henderson Directory Co., 1916), 648. Vancouver: "Green Rowland E clk Land Registry Office h 1752 3rd Av W" [S750] HENVAN17, (Vancouver: Henderson Directory Co., 1917), 523. Vancouver: "Mrs R E h 1752 3rd Av W" [S667] Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, FamilySearch.org (Web site). "England, Cheshire Parish Registers, 1538-2000"; URL (accessed 20 Feb 2018): https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F35L-SBV [S670] BVIPA marriage registration. Registration no. 1877-09-001145 (microfilm B11367) [S670] BVIPA marriage registration. Registration no. 1911-09-064349 (microfilm B11375) [S652] BVIPA death registration index. Registration no. 1917-09-148112 (microfilm B13102)