Devine, Harry Torkington^{[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11]}

1865 - 1938  (73 years)

• Name	Devine, Harry Torkington
  	VARIANT NAME: Devine, John Harry T.
  Birth	28 Jul 1865	Manchester, Eng., UK
  Gender	Male
  Where Active (Non-Specific Address)	1884?-1886	Brandon, MB
  Business Address/Year	1?-13 Jun 1886	Vancouver, BC
  	Address: Cordova and Abbott Sts. Vancouver, BC Canada
  Business Address/Year	23 Jul 1886-24 Mar 1887	Vancouver, BC
  	Address: Cordova St. Horne Block Vancouver, BC Canada
  Business Address/Year	24 Mar 1887-Jan 1889	Vancouver, BC
  	Address: 140 Cordova St. 2 doors east of Hudson's Bay Co. Vancouver, BC Canada
  Home Address/Year	1889	Vancouver, BC
  	Address: 138 Cordova St. Vancouver, BC Canada
  Home Address/Year	1890	Vancouver, BC
  	Address: Princess St. corner of Carl Ave. Vancouver, BC Canada
  Home Address/Year	Jan 1895	Vancouver, BC
  	Address: 486 Sixth Ave. E. Vancouver, BC Canada
  Business Address/Year	1896	Vancouver, BC
  	Address: 128 Cordova St. Vancouver, BC Canada
  Home Address/Year	1896-1897	Vancouver, BC
  	Address: 431 Sixth Ave E. Vancouver, BC Canada
  Death	17 Dec 1938	Vancouver, BC   [12]
  Burial	Mountain View Cemetery, Vancouver, BC
  Association	J.A. Brock and Company (Relationship: Partner)
  Association	Brock, John Allan (Relationship: Partner)
  Person ID	I275	Camera Workers | D, vol. 1, 1858-1900
  Last Modified	19 Dec 2021

  
  

• Photos

  H.T. Devine, 17 Feb 1936. City of Vancouver Archives reference code AM54-S4-: Port P341.

  
  

  Documents » Slide Show		J.A. Brock ad, Vancouver News, 23 Jul 1886. The first ad by this company appeared in the 1 Jun 1886 issue of the same paper.
  		J.A. Brock ad, News-Advertiser (Vancouver), 19 Jan 1889.
  		J.A. Brock and Company ad, San Francisco Journal of Commerce, BC Edition, Feb 1888, p. 12.
  		J.A. Brock and Company news item, San Francisco Journal of Commerce, BC Edition, Feb 1888, p. 12.
  		H.T. Devine news, Vancouver Province, 23 Nov 1935, Sunday Magazine, p. 10. In his letter to the editor, Devine introduces a few inaccuracies of his own into the historical record.
  		J.A. Brock and Company news, Vancouver Daily News-Advertiser, 16 Nov 1907, p. 1. This item about H.T. Devine's photograph of the steamship Parthia as it was leaving through the First Narrows for Japan was originally published on 16 Nov 1887.
  		H.T. Devine (J.A. Brock and Co.) news, Vancouver Daily World, 5 Dec 1888, p. 1.
  		J.A. Brock and Company and H.T. Devine ad, Vancouver Daily News-Advertiser, 22 Apr 1888, p. 1. Dated 19 Apr 1888, this partnership dissolution notice first appeared in this newspaper on 20 Apr 1888. The dissolution was effective 1 Nov 1887.

  
  

• Notes

  STATUS: Commercial. BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: According to one biography (1911) he started as a photographer in Brandon in 1884. By 1885 both J.A. Brock and H.T. Devine were competing in Brandon on Rosser Ave. The two became partners and headed to Vancouver in 1886. Brock seemed to be the senior partner and it was his name which was frequently mentioned in the Vancouver papers. The partnership was dissolved in Nov 1887 and by Jan 1889 Devine had the galley up for sale. Devine returned to photography in 1895; by 1897 he had permanently retired from that career. His granddaughter, Betty C. Keller, published two articles about her famous ancestor whose surviving photographs are among the earliest of and most memorable images of Vancouver. H.T. Devine is buried in Mountain View Cemetery, Vancouver. IDENTIFYING MARKS: "Devine" on print surface or "Harry T. Devine, Photographer, Cordova St., Vancouver, B.C." stamped on verso of prints. Many 1886-1888 Vancouver views captioned and identified with phrase "Copyright applied for."

  
  

• Sources

  [S46] COLLECTION: BVIPA. Prints [S45] COLLECTION: BVAA. Prints [S134] COLLECTION: BVA. Glass negatives [S950] Brandon Mail, 3 Sep 1885, 7. [S626] (Vancouver) News-Advertiser, (Vancouver: News-Advertiser), 20 Apr 1888, 1. [S493] C.W. Parker, ed., Who's Who in Western Canada (1911), (Vancouver: Canadian Press Association, 1911). [S582] David Mattison, Mattison (1979 11-12), (Photo Communique 1, no. 5 (November-December 1979):16-21). [S692] Correspondence, David Mattison. Letter, B. Keller to Mattison, 1983 04 30 [S371] Betty C. Keller, Keller (1986), (Beaver 66, no. 3 (June/July 1986):30-38). [S372] Betty C. Keller, Keller (1987), (Beaver 67, no. 4 (Aug./Sept. 1987):28-34). [S651] (Vancouver) Sun (Newspaper), 18 Dec 2021. Mackie, John. "This Week in History, 1938: The Brief Career of Pioneer Vancouver's First Photographer" URL (accessed 19 Dec 2021): https://vancouversun.com/news/this-week-in-history-1938-the-brief-career-of-pioneer-vancouvers-first-photographer [S652] BVIPA death registration index. Person: John Harry T. Devine Registration no. 1938-09-551556 (microfilm reel B13164)