Eyres, Edmund James[1]
1834 - 1910 (~ 76 years)-
Name Eyres, Edmund James - VARIANT NAMES: Eyers, E.J.; Eyres, Edmond James. [2]
Born ca. 1834 London, Eng., UK 
Gender Male Business Address/Year 1868 Llandudno, North Wales Address:
Church Walkes
Llandudno, North Wales
UKBusiness Address/Year 1893 Victoria, BC Address:
59 1/2 Government St.?
Victoria, BC
CanadaHome Address/Year 1893 Victoria, BC Address:
Brighton Cottage
Cadboro Bay
Victoria, BC
CanadaHome Address/Year 1893 Victoria, BC Address:
96 Quebec St.
Victoria, BC
CanadaHome Address/Year 1894 Victoria, BC Address:
Spring Ridge
Victoria, BC
CanadaBusiness Address/Year 1894-1900 Victoria, BC Address:
76 Yates St.
Victoria, BC
CanadaHome Address/Year 1897-1900 Victoria, BC Address:
73 Discovery St.
Victoria, BC
CanadaBusiness Address/Year 1901-1909 Victoria, BC Buried Jan 1910 Victoria, BC Died 5 Jan 1910 Victoria, BC [2] Association Piper, Charles Thomas Wood (Relationship: Boarder) Association Imperial Art Studio (Relationship: Owner) Association Forbes-Mackie, K. (Relationship: Employee) Association Tait, Beatrice H. (Relationship: Employee) Person ID I446 Camera Workers | E, vol. 1, 1858-1900 Last Modified 28 Mar 2017
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Documents 
E.J. Eyres' signature, 1893
From Superintendent of Provincial Police, correspondence inward, BC Archives, GR-0066, box 1, file 2.
E.J. Eyres' invoice, 18 Aug 1893
Headstones 
E.J. Eyres gravestone, Ross Bay Cemetery, Victoria, BC.
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Notes - STATUS: Commercial.
- BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Eyres may have begun his photographic career in North Wales, as he shows up in a business directory listing for 1868. By 1893 he was listed as an artist in Victoria, and resided with C.T.W. Piper who operated the Queen's Art Photo Studio. Eyres was also listed as a photographer that year with a separate residence. The following year he was operating the Imperial Studio on Yates St. at the corner of Broad. According to an 1896 summary of the studio's history, it was established in Oct 1892. Eyres was primarily a portrait photographer. The Colonist reported in 1897 that he and E.A. Harris had invented a device for producing vignette photographs. Eyres is buried in Ross Bay Cemetery, Victoria.
- IDENTIFYING MARKS: "E.J. Eyres Imperial Studio 76 Yates Street, Victoria, B.C." stamped on verso of print mount (1895 date); "Eyres Imperial Studio, Victoria, B.C." stamped in black ink on verso of print mount (1896 date); "Eyres, Victoria, B.C." on front of print mount; "Imperial Art Studio E.J. Eyres 76 Yates St. Victoria B.C." embossed in white on white cabinet portrait mount (private collection).
- REFERENCES: BVIPA GR-1052, file 2173 (will); BVIPA GR-1304, box 138, file 3457 (probate); WIL93; WIL94; WIL95; HEN97; WIL97; HEN98; HEN99; WIL99; HEN00; Colonist, 1896 04 05/7, 1897 07 31/8, 1910 01 08/6 (obit.); Vaughan (Web site: List of Photographic Studios ... 1868).
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