Maynard, Hannah Hatherly^{[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23]}

1834 - 1918  (84 years)

• Name	Maynard, Hannah Hatherly
  	VARIANT NAMES: Maynard, Mrs. R.; Maynard, Mrs. Richard; Hatherly, Hannah (bridal name); Hatherleigh, Hannah (baptismal name); Hannah Hatherley (spelling on gravestone).
  Born	17 Jan 1834	Bude, Cornwall, Eng., UK
  Christened	2 Feb 1834	Stratton, Cornwall, Eng., UK   [24]
  Gender	Female
  Business Address/Year	1892-1906?	Victoria, BC
  	renumbered to 715 or 717 Pandora Avenue ca. 1907
  	Address: 41 Pandora Ave. Victoria, BC Canada
  Marriage	24 Mar 1852	Bude, Cornwall, Eng., UK   [25, 26]
  	Groom: Maynard, Richard
  	While sources indicate they were married in Bude Haven, it is the same location as Bude.
  Business Address/Year	1862?-1874	Victoria, BC
  	Address: Johnson St. corner of Douglas St. Victoria, BC Canada
  Business Address/Year	1874-1892	Victoria, BC
  	Address: Douglas St. corner of Johnson St. Victoria, BC Canada
  Business Address/Year	1901-1903	Victoria, BC
  	Address: 41 1/2 Pandora Avenue Maynard Building Victoria, BC Canada
  Business Address/Year	1904-1905	Victoria, BC
  	Address: 45 1/2 Yates Street Victoria, BC Canada
  Business Address/Year	1908	Victoria, BC
  	Address: 715 Pandora Avenue Maynard Building Victoria, BC Canada
  Business Address/Year	1909-1912	Victoria, BC
  	Address: 717 Pandora Avenue Maynard Building Victoria, BC Canada
  Died	15 May 1918	Victoria, BC   [27]
  Buried	18 May 1918	Ross Bay Cemetery, Victoria, BC   [27, 28]
  Association	Maynard, Richard (Relationship: Spouse)
  Association	Maynard Albert Hatherly (Relationship: Mother)
  Association	Rappertie, Arthur Stewart (Relationship: Employer)
  Association	Hendricks, Nicholas Herman (Relationship: Employer)
  Association	Macdonald, Emma (Relationship: Mother)
  Association	Macdonald, Emma (Relationship: Employee?)
  Association	Dally, Frederick (Relationship: Undefined)
  Association	Macdonald, Maynard Forbes (Relationship: Grandson)
  Person ID	I434	Camera Workers | M, vol. 1, 1858-1900
  Last Modified	5 Dec 2021

  
  

• Photos » Slide Show		Mrs. R. Maynard, Artist, stamp on bottom of mounted photograph taken by Richard Maynard at Wrangel, Alaska, 1879 06 14
  		Photographer Richard Maynard with his field camera. Photographed in his wife's (Hannah Hatherly Maynard) studio. Image courtesy of BC Archives, Visual Records call no. F-06336.
  		Hannah and Richard Maynard's adjoining businesses, Douglas and Johnson streets, Victoria. Richard relocated his boot and shoe business from Fort Street to this location around May 1874. Image courtesy of BC Archives, Visual Records call no. A-00853 (HP001820).
  		Hannah (Mrs. R.) Maynard's first studio, Johnson St. (left side), Victoria. Image courtesy of BC Archives, Visual Records call no. C-09031.
  		Hannah and Richard Maynard's camera float on Pandora Avenue for a Victoria parade. Image courtesy of BC Archives, Visual Records call no. F-05137.
  		Maynard Building, Pandora Avenue, Victoria. A stereo photograph, this building housed Richard's boot and shoe business and Hannah's portrait studio. Image courtesy of BC Archives, Visual Records call no. G-04812.
  		Maynard building, Pandora Avenue, Victoria, interior. Richard Maynard on the left. The stereographoscope, used for viewing stereographs and mounted single photographs, seen on the left in BC Archives, Visual Records call no. C-08996, is visible in this photo. Image courtesy of BC Archives, Visual Records call no. C-08870.
  		Maynard building, Pandora Avenue, Victoria, interior. The stereographoscope, used for viewing stereographs and mounted single photographs, seen on the left in BC Archives, Visual Records call no. C-08870, is visible in this photo. Image courtesy of BC Archives, Visual Records call no. C-08996.
  		Hannah Maynard portrait, ca. 1890s.

  
  

  Documents » Slide Show		Mrs. R. Maynard cartouche from the verso of a mounted photograph, ca. 1893. Image courtesy of BC Archives, Visual Records catalogue no. HP000235.
  		Mrs. R. Maynard cartouche from verso of a mounted photograph, 20 Aug 1879. The photograph depicts the SS Princess Louise side-paddle steamer docked at Comox during Richard and Hannah's working vacation around Vancouver Island. Courtesy of BC Archives, Visual Records catalogue no. HP000404 (item A-00190).
  		Mrs. R. Maynard cartouche from the verso of a mounted photograph. From a private collection.
  		Mrs. R. Maynard cartouche from the verso of a mounted photograph. From a private collection.
  		Mrs. R. Maynard's ad, Victoria Colonist, 23 Oct 1874. This ad was still being published in the Colonist in Apr 1875.
  		Mrs. R. Maynard news item, Victoria Colonist, 25 Mar 1868, p. 3. She marketed photographs of the 1868 Fanny shipwreck taken on 24 Mar 1868. Although the newspaper claimed they were taken by her, they were likely taken by her husband Richard.
  		Mrs. R. Maynard news item, Victoria Colonist, 25 Dec 1881, p. 3. About her famous "Gems of British Columbia" photo composite annual series of portraits of children.
  		Detail from fire insurance plan showing the Maynard Building, 715-717 Pandora Avenue, Victoria, 1911-1913.
  		R.E. Gosnell's biography of Richard Maynard and family, A History [of] British Columbia (1906), p. 399. Page one of three.
  		R.E. Gosnell's biography of Richard Maynard and family, A History [of] British Columbia (1906), p. 400. Page two of three.
  		Hannah Maynard's obituary, Victoria Colonist, 17 May 1918, p. 7, part 3.
  		Hannah Maynard's obituary, Victoria Colonist, 17 May 1918, p. 7, part 2.
  		R.E. Gosnell's biography of Richard Maynard and family, A History [of] British Columbia (1906), p. 401. Page three of three.
  		Hannah Maynard's obituary, Victoria Colonist, 17 May 1918, p. 7, part 1.
  		Mrs. R. Maynard news item, Victoria Colonist, 11 Oct 1872, p. 3. An article about the first provincial agricultural exhibition mentioned her stereoscopic views which may in fact have been taken by her husband Richard.
  		Richard and Mrs. R. Maynard news item, Victoria Colonist, 19 Jun 1878, p. 3. About their photographic visit to the mainland which took them as far as the Fraser Canyon.
  		R. Maynard news item, Victoria Colonist, 5 Apr 1896, p. 8. This item references the photo studio but credits Richard, rather than Hannah, with its ownership.
  		Mrs. R. Maynard cartouche, verso of carte-de-visite.
  		J.B. Kerr's biography of Richard Maynard, p. 229.
  		J.B. Kerr's biography of Richard Maynard, p. 230.
  		Mrs. R. Maynard ad, San Francisco Journal of Commerce, BC Edition, 4 Dec 1884, p. 4.
  		Mrs. R. Maynard entry, The New West (1888), p. 199. Richard Maynard's field photography is mentioned at the end of this entry.
  		Mrs. R. Maynard entry, The New West (1888), p. 200. Richard Maynard's field photography is mentioned at the end of this entry.
  		Mrs. R. and Richard's ad, Victoria Colonist, 9 Jan 1892, p. 2.
  		Maynard Building[?] construction cost, Victoria Colonist, 1 Jan 1892, p. 8. The $9,000.00 may be an assessed amount and the J. Maynard may refer to James Maynard, relationship unknown.
  		Richard Maynard and Mrs. R. removal auction, Victoria Colonist, 23 Mar 1892, p. 1. To save the expense of moving stock one block, the Maynards held an auction.
  		Mrs. R. Maynard ad, Victoria Colonist, 26 Mar 1892, p. 8. In this news ad, she lets her customers know of her new address effective 28 Mar 1892.
  		Mrs. R. and Richard Maynard's joint ad, Victoria Colonist, 1 Apr 1892, p. 2. This is their first joint ad following their move from their former addresses on Douglas Street.
  		Mrs. R. Maynard news, Victoria Colonist, 20 Apr 1883, p. 3. For the photograph see https://search-bcarchives.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/japanese-fishing-crew-rescured-in-china-sea-by-barque-tiger-these-men-are-believed-to-be-first-japanese-in-victoria
  		Mrs. R. Maynard news, Victoria Colonist, 27 May 1883, p.3. This same issue published two pieces about photos taken by O.C. Hastings of Spencer and Hastings of the same subject matter on Thursday, 24 May. The photographs were almost certainly taken by her husband, Richard Maynard. For a possible match to the baseball game, see https://search-bcarchives.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/baseball-game-in-beacon-hill-park-victoria-2
  		Mrs. R. Maynard news, Victoria Colonist, 3 Jan 1885, p. 3. About the Gems of British Columbia series and an additional photograph.
  		Mrs. R. Maynard news, Victoria Colonist, 29 Aug 1885, p. 3. The Point Ellice Bridge collapsed under the weight of an overloaded streetcar 26 on May 1896. There were over four dozen deaths.
  		Mrs. R. Maynard news, Victoria Colonist, 4 Jun 1885, p. 3. As the tintype, like the daguerreotype, was a one-off process, it is not clear whether this was a tongue-in-cheek or a serious reference to the end product of her portraiture.
  		Mrs. R. Maynard news, Victoria Colonist, 15 Oct 1885, p. 3. The photograph was taken on 10 Oct 1885 when the Governor-General, the Marquess of Lansdowne, was aboard the ship. For the HMS Triumph photo, see https://search-bcarchives.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/hms-triumph-in-esquimalt (BC Archives item A-00318 / HP000720).

  
  

  Headstones » Slide Show		Hannah Maynard's gravestone closeup, Ross Bay Cemetery, Victoria, BC.
  		Hannah Maynard's gravestone base, Ross Bay Cemetery, Victoria, BC.
  		Hannah Maynard's gravestone, Ross Bay Cemetery, Victoria, BC.

  
  

• Notes

  STATUS: Commercial. BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Married in 1852 to Richard Maynard, she emigrated to the Colony of Vancouver Island with her family in 1862. Although no direct evidence has been located, it is believed she opened Mrs. R. Maynard's Photographic Gallery the same year. Primarily a portrait photographer, she boasted upon her retirement in 1912 of having photographed just about everyone who passed through Victoria. She and Richard made a few trips together (dates and destinations of these trips together are 1875 [San Francisco], 1878 [Lower Mainland to Fraser Canyon], 1879 [Vancouver Island pleasure cruise], 1887 and/or 1889 [Banff], 1888 [Queen Charlotte Islands]). Both practiced landscape photography it is not always clear, though their work was marketed under separate imprints, exactly who took which photographs. Hannah also experimented with novelty techniques such as photosculpture (persons made to resemble statues), multiple exposure tricks, and composite imagery. Her probate, executed by her son Albert, says she disposed of her equipment about 1910 to a Chinese photographer named Peter on Government St. She was last listed as a photographer in the 1912 business directory. Albert donated her studio register to the BC Archives in 1933 (item MS-3325), and also disposed of all negatives to the BC Archives by donation or sale at various dates. About the only other personal or business record by Hannah preserved by the BC Archives is an account of the 1879 trip around Vancouver Island. The 45 1/2 Yates Street address listing in the early 1900s business directories alphabetic name section is a case of mistaken identity in that the street directory indicates the Mrs. R. Maynard at that address was the widow of Ruben Maynard. Victoria playwright Janet Munsil's play Be Still about Hannah Maynard premiered at Richmond's Gateway Theatre on 1 Mar 2001 and opened at Victoria's Belfry Theatre on 14 Mar 2001. For an assessment of Hannah Maynard's role in the development of the arts within Victoria by women, see the exhibit catalogue edited by Karen A. Finlay, "A Woman's Place" (University of Victoria, Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery (2004). Elizabeth Lazebnik's short film The Multiple Selves of Hannah Maynard (2004) is a creative interpretation of her photography, especially the period following the death of youngest daughter, Laura Lillian Maynard, in 1883. The deaths of another daughter, Emma Jane MacDonald (nee Maynard) in 1893, and a daughter-in-law, Adelaide Maynard, in 1892, also contributed to Hannah's spiritualist church connection. Elizabeth Lazebnik's longer film Be Still (2021) is based on Janet Munsil's play of the same name. While the film begins with an intertitle claiming Hannah was the first surrealist photographer, nothing could be further from the truth. The film does an excellent job of conveying her studio and household milieu, all with no mention of the extraordinary role and decades of work by her assistant Arthur S. Rappertie. The film telescopes Hannah and Rappertie's work into what appear to be a few years, if not months, in 1885, whereas the trick photographs and photomontages ("Gems of British Columbia") occurred over the course of more than a decade. IDENTIFYING MARKS: "Mrs. R. Maynard Photographic Artiste Johnson Street, Near Douglas, Victoria, V.I. B.C." on verso of carte-de-visite (2 styles). "Mrs. R. Maynard, Photographic Artiste, Douglass [sic] St., Victoria, V.I., B.C." on verso of carte-de-visite (2 styles). "From Mrs. R. Maynard's Photographic Studio, cor. Douglas & Johnson Sts., Victoria, B.C." on verso of print mount (various styles). "Mrs. R. Maynard, Photographer, 41 ½ Pandora Avenue, Near Douglas Street Victoria, B.C." on verso of print mount. The bottom front of the print mount may also be marked "Mrs. R. Maynard, Victoria, B.C." or "Mrs. R. Maynard, Artiste." REFERENCES: City directories; Hannah and Richard are first listed in MAL68; newspapers; tax assessments; photographs all at BVIPA

  
  

• Sources

  [S46] COLLECTION: BVIPA. Glass negatives, prints, albums, negative register [S666] BVIPA archival records. Probate file GR-1304, file 105/18 [S666] BVIPA archival records. MS-1077, Newcombe Collection [S1028] ORMVIC01, (Victoria, B.C.: Ormond and MacGregor, 1901), 118. Victoria: Maynard, Mrs. R., photographer, 41 1/2 Pandora [S42] HEN01, (Victoria, B.C.: Henderson Publishing Co., 1901), 964. Victoria: Maynard, Mrs. R., photographer 41 1/2 Pandora [S781] HEN02, (Vancouver: Henderson Publishing, 1902), 62. Victoria: Maynard, Mrs. R., photographer, 41 1/2 Pandora [S782] HEN03, (Vancouver: Henderson Publishing, 1903), 1031. Victoria: Maynard, Mrs. R., photographer, 41 1/2 Pandora [S783] HEN04, (Vancouver: Henderson Publishing, 1904), 1099. Victoria: Maynard, Mrs. R., photographer, 45 1-2 Yates [S784] HENVIC05, (Victoria: Henderson Publishing, 1905), 212. Victoria: Maynard, Mrs. R., photographer, 45 1-2 Yates [S785] HEN05, (Vancouver: Henderson Publishing, 1905), 598. Victoria: Maynard, Mrs. R., photographer, 45 1-2 Yates [S789] HENVIC08, (Victoria: Henderson Publishing, 1908), 351. Victoria: Maynard Mrs Richard photo 715 Pandora [S792] PROVI09, (Victoria: Provincial Publishing, 1909), 487. Victoria: Maynard Mrs. R. photographer 717 Pandora lvs same [S732] HEN10, (Vancouver: Henderson Publishing, 1910). Victoria: not listed [S793] HENVIC10, (Victoria: Henderson Publishing, 1911), 313. Victoria: Maynard Mrs Richard photogr 717 Pandora lvs same [S796] HENVIC12, (Victoria: Henderson Publishing, 1912), 493. Victoria: Maynard Hannah wid Richard photogr 717 Pandora lvs same [S798] HENVIC13, (Victoria: Henderson Publishing, 1913), 683. Victoria: Maynard Hannah wid R h 717 Pandora [S745] HENVIC14, (Victoria: Henderson Publishing, 1914), 553. Victoria: Maynard Hannah wid Richd h 717 Pandora [S2] Mattison (1980 10), Mattison, David, (Vanguard 9, no. 8 (October 1980):14-19). [S497] Wilks (1980), Claire Weissman Wilks, (Toronto: Exile Editions, 1980). [S935] Times-Colonist, B6, 14 Jan 2001. Review of Janet Munsil's play Be Still [S602] Mattison (2003), David Mattison, (Times-Colonist, January 12, 2003, p. D11 (Monitor/Islander section)). [S522] University of Victoria, Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery (2004), K.A. Finlay, ed., (Victoria, B.C.: Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery, 2004). [S364] Neering (2006), Rosemary Neering, (British Columbia Magazine 48, no. 4 (Winter [November] 2006):50-57). [S1148] Cornwall OPC Database (Web site), (Cornwall Online Parish Clerks (Genealogy)). URL (accessed 1 Oct 2021): https://www.cornwall-opc-database.org/search-database/more-info/?t=baptisms&id=779328 [S1148] Cornwall OPC Database (Web site), (Cornwall Online Parish Clerks (Genealogy)). URL (accessed 1 Oct 2021): https://www.cornwall-opc-database.org/search-database/more-info/?t=marriages&id=375784 [S1099] Points to the Past (Web site), (Burnaby, BC: BC Electronic Library Network), 5, 3 Apr 1852. Exeter and Plymouth Gazette [S652] BVIPA death registration index. Registration no. 1918-09-037846; digital facsimile URL (accessed 23 Jan 2017): http://search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/731b5620-844f-4ed8-88d6-d2fcd2a46e4c [S628] (Victoria) Colonist, (Victoria: Colonist), 7, 17 May 1918. "Mrs. Richard Maynard Passes to Her Rest" Obit.