Name | Thompson, Stephen Joseph | |
Birth | 27 May 1864 | Bailieboro, ON ![]() |
Gender | Male | |
Business Address/Year | Oct 1886-? | New Westminster, BC ![]() |
as Thompson and Bovill | ||
Address: Columbia St. opposite Colonial Hotel New Westminster, BC Canada | ||
Where Active (Non-Specific Address) | Before 1886 | Port Hope, ON ![]() |
Business Address/Year | 1887-1890 | New Westminster, BC ![]() |
as Thompson and Bovill until 1889 | ||
Address: Columbia St. Hamley Block New Westminster, BC Canada | ||
Home Address/Year | 1889-1890 | New Westminster, BC ![]() |
Address: Agnes St. Spring Villes New Westminster, BC Canada | ||
Home Address/Year | 1891-1894 | New Westminster, BC ![]() |
Address: 221 Columbia St. New Westminster, BC Canada | ||
Home Address/Year | 1895 | New Westminster, BC ![]() |
Address: Burr Block New Westminster, BC Canada | ||
Business Address/Year | 1890-1898 | New Westminster, BC ![]() |
destroyed by fire 11 Sep 1898 | ||
Address: 620 Columbia St. New Westminster, BC Canada | ||
Business Address/Year | Dec 1897-1900 | Vancouver, BC ![]() |
initially a branch studio | ||
Address: 610 Granville St. Vancouver, BC Canada | ||
Business Address/Year | 1901-1904 | New Westminster, BC ![]() |
Business Address/Year | 1901-1927 | Vancouver, BC ![]() |
Business Address/Year | 1928 | Vancouver, BC ![]() |
Address: 771 Dunsmuir St. Photo-Arts Ltd. Vancouver, BC Canada | ||
Business Address/Year | 1929 | Vancouver, BC ![]() |
Address: 573 Hornby St. Photo-Arts Ltd. Vancouver, BC Canada | ||
Death | 07 Aug 1929 | Vancouver, BC ![]() |
Association | Thompson and Bovill (Relationship: Partner) | |
Association | B.C. Photo and Fine Art Studio (Relationship: Manager) | |
Association | Canfield Francis Orra (Relationship: Employee) | |
Association | Easthope, Edwin Frederick (Relationship: Employee) | |
Association | Ford, Lillian M. (Relationship: Employee (retoucher)) | |
Association | French, May (Relationship: Employee (retoucher)) | |
Association | Timms, Philip Thomas (Relationship: Employee) | |
Association | Ross, Helen (Relationship: Employee) | |
Association | Guest, John James (Relationship: Employee) | |
Association | Wood, Jessie (Relationship: Employee) | |
Association | Smith, Charles Henry (Relationship: Printer; Commercial (assistant)) | |
Association | Howison, J.W. (Relationship: Employee) | |
Association | Thompson, Stephen Cecil (Relationship: Father) | |
Association | Thompson's Studio and Supply House (Relationship: Proprietor) | |
Association | Photo-Arts Ltd. (Relationship: Proprietor) | |
Association | Burrard Photo Arts Supply Company (Relationship: Manager) | |
Person ID | I40 | Camera Workers | T, vol. 1, 1858-1900 |
Last Modified | 17 Apr 2020 |
Photos | ![]() | Photographer S.J. Thompson in a pensive pose. |
![]() | A S.J. Thompson photo bearing his number 1290 prefixed by "T" and credited to Shaw Brothers Limited by the latter. While the image content date of ca. 1891 is approximately correct, the Shaw Brothers were not in existence at that time. City of Vancouver Archives Item: Out P796.3 - View from Upper Springs Banff |
Documents | ![]() | S.J. Thompson's studio, 620 Columbia St., New Westminster. S.J. Thompson's studio was destroyed in the New Westminster Fire on September 11, 1898. Fortunately, Thompson had opened a new studio in neighboring Vancouver in December 1897 and had moved his landscape negatives there. This lithograph is possibly from the West Shore periodical. Image courtesty of BC Archives, Visual Records catalogue number HP044342 (item B-09366). |
![]() | S.J. Thompson's ad, News-Advertiser (Vancouver), 1896 05 31. The Point Ellice Bridge collapse occurred on 26 May 1896. Remarkably, S.J. Thompson happened to be in Victoria and was able to be on the scene, according to this ad, within 10 minutes. Over four dozen men, women and children were killed in this tragic event. | |
![]() | Thompson's Studio ad, Vancouver Province, 4 Dec 1901, p. 10. | |
![]() | S.J. Thompson news, Vancouver Province, 15 Apr 1898, p. 4. This article discusses the return of the vessel Quadra with the Deputy Minister of Marine and Fisheries, Louis Coste, and Thompson. |
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