Moore, William John^{[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19]}

1887 - 1963  (75 years)

• Name	Moore, William John
  Birth	11 Dec 1887	Quebec   [20]
  Gender	Male
  Business Address/Year	1 Nov 1910	Vancouver, BC   [21]
  	Bride: Josephine Maeberie Bishop
  Business Address/Year	1910-1913	Vancouver, BC
  	Address undetermined
  Business Address/Year	1914-1915	Vancouver, BC
  	Address: 3751 Sophia Vancouver, BC Canada
  Business Address/Year	1916-1917	Vancouver, BC
  	Address: 439 Seymour St. Canadian Photo Company Vancouver, BC Canada
  Business Address/Year	1918-1920	Vancouver, BC
  	Address: 433 Seymour St. Canadian Photo Company Vancouver, BC Canada
  Business Address/Year	1921-1925	Vancouver, BC
  	Address: 739 West Hastings St., no. 9 (Winch Building) Vancouver, BC Canada
  Business Address/Year	1926-1930	Vancouver, BC
  	Address: 337 West Hastings Street W.J. Moore Photo Company Vancouver, BC Canada
  Business Address/Year	1931-1950	Vancouver, BC
  	Continued past 1950
  	Address: 420 West Hastings St., no. 5 W.J. Moore Photo Company Vancouver, BC Canada
  Marriage	?	?   [20]
  	Bride: Calla Bishop
  Death	16 Oct 1963	Burnaby, BC   [20]
  Burial	19 Oct 1963	Vancouver Crematorium, Vancouver, BC   [20]
  	Buried in the Burnaby Heritage Cemetery. The gravestone also references his first wife: "A loving wife and mother Josephine Bishop May 13 1945." [22]
  Association	Read, William Edmund (Relationship: Employee; Clerk; Photographer)
  Association	Canadian Photo Company (Relationship: Co-proprietor)
  Association	W.J. Moore Photo Company (Relationship: Proprietor)
  Person ID	I1668	Camera Workers | M, vol. 2, 1901-1950
  Last Modified	19 Jun 2021

  
  

• Photos » Slide Show		Cinematographer at a Vancouver baseball game, 1915. Photographed by W.J. Moore, the motion picture operator is believed to be A.D. "Cowboy" Kean. The photograph is captioned "'Opening Game Base Ball Season 1915' 'Vancouver vs. Victoria'". City of Vancouver Archives AM54-S4-3-: PAN N14B.
  		Unidentified photographer at a Vancouver baseball game, 1915. Photographed by W.J. Moore, the photograph is captioned "'Opening Game Base Ball Season 1915' 'Vancouver vs. Victoria'". City of Vancouver Archives AM54-S4-3-: PAN N14B.
  		Trio of unidentified photographers at a Vancouver baseball game, 1915. Photographed by W.J. Moore, the photograph is captioned "'Opening Game Base Ball Season 1915' 'Vancouver vs. Victoria'". City of Vancouver Archives AM54-S4-3-: PAN N14B.

  
  

• Notes

  STATUS: Commercial. BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: When he was first married in 1910 at age 25 he gave his occupation as a photographer. He operated under his own name from 1913-1915, then worked for the Canadian Photo Company (1916-1917). He established a successful operation under his name around 1920 and worked past 1950, during many of those years as the W.J. Moore Photo Company. One of his specialties was taking panoramic photographs. IDENTIFYING MARKS: Print surface may be titled, dated, numbered and captioned "W.J. Moore Photo." [23] FORMATS: Panoramic.

  
  

• Sources

  [S45] COLLECTION: BVAA. Prints [S136] COLLECTION: BVAMM. 1995 exhibit [S339] Voters List, (Victoria, B.C.: Province of British Columbia, 1874-), 1913, 1920, 1933, Ref. NW 324.1 B862. Vancouver [S791] HENVAN09, (Vancouver: Henderson Publishing, 1909). Vancouver: not listed [S698] HENVAN10, (Vancouver: Henderson Publishing, 1910). Vancouver: not listed [S732] HEN10, (Vancouver: Henderson Publishing, 1910). Vancouver: not listed [S795] HENVAN11, (Vancouver: Henderson Publishing, 1911). Vancouver: not listed [S797] HENVAN12, (Vancouver: Henderson Publishing, 1912), 1043. Vancouver: Moore Wm J photogr r 455 21st Ave E [S746] HENVAN13, (Vancouver: Henderson Directory Co., 1913), 1125. Vancouver: Moore Wm J photogr h 3751 Sophia [S747] HENVAN14, (Vancouver: Henderson Directory Co., 1914), 1089. Vancouver: Moore Wm J photogr 3751 Sophia h same [S748] HENVAN15, (Vancouver: Henderson Directory Co., 1915), 853. Vancouver: Moore Wm J photogr 3751 Sophia h same [S749] HENVAN16, (Vancouver: Henderson Directory Co., 1916), 800. Vancouver: Moore Wm J of Can Photo Co h 146 22nd Av W [S751] HENVAN18, (Vancouver: Henderson Directory Co., 1918), 719. Vancouver: Moore Wm J of Can Photo Co h 146 22nd Av W [S754] HENVAN21, (Vancouver: Henderson Directory Co., 1921), 892. Vancouver: Moore Wm J coml photogr 9, 739 Hastings h 2792 Cambridge [S741] WRI21, (Vancouver, BC: Wrigley Directories, c1921), 933. Vancouver: Moore Wm J phogr 9 Winch Bldg [S759] WRI26, (Vancouver: Wrigley Directories, 1926), 1112. Vancouver: Moore Wm J prop W J Moore Photo h 1379 E 20 [S764] WRI31, (Vancouver: Wrigley Directories, 1931), 1139. Vancouver: Moore Wm J prop W J Moore Photo h 4666 W 3 [S1025] BCVAN51, (Vancouver, BC: B.C. Directories, 1951), 413. Vancouver [S617] W.J. Moore, Moore (1916?), (Vancouver, B.C.: W.J. Moore, 1916?), 362.2 B862p [oversize]. [S652] BVIPA death registration index. Registration no. 1963-09-012916 (microfilm B13263); digital facsimile URL (accessed 12 May 2020): http://search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/2b2a672e-dc03-461e-af56-fe1450c24d07 [S670] BVIPA marriage registration. Registration no. 1910-09-061040 (microfilm B11375); digital facsimile URL (accessed 12 May 2020): http://search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/f72649ba-f33f-4ad7-a106-2292329b57f8 [S832] Find a Grave (Web site). URL (accessed 12 May 2020): https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/181335973/william-john-moore [S1088] Flickr.com (Web site). W.J. Moore panoramic photo with identifying marks. URL (accessed 12 May 2020): https://www.flickr.com/photos/vancouver-archives/5457291048/in/album-72157625958366187/