Richardson, James^{[1, 2, 3, 4]}

1810 - 1883  (73 years)

• Name	Richardson, James
  Birth	29 Mar 1810	Perthshire, Scotland, UK
  Gender	Male
  Where Active (Non-Specific Address)	1875	Nanaimo, BC
  Death	18 Nov 1883	Mantane, PQ
  Person ID	I761	Camera Workers | R, vol. 1, 1858-1900
  Last Modified	9 Jun 2022

  
  

• Documents » Slide Show		Benjamin Baltzly news, Victoria Standard, 22 Jul 1871, p. 3. The Geological Survey of Canada party of which Baltzly was a member reached Olympia, Washington Territory, by stagecoach and was to take a boat from there to Victoria.
  		James Richardson news, Victoria Colonist, 23 Apr 1875, p. 3. Richardson visited BC in the spring 1875 primarily to obtain specimens for the United States centennial exhibition in 1876 in Philadelphia, PA.
  		James Richardson news, Victoria Colonist, 15 May 1875, p. 3. The identity of the photographer he hired in the spring 1875 is not known. His geological collecting expedition was for the United States centennial exhibition in 1876 in Philadelphia, PA.
  		James Richardson news, Victoria Colonist, 15 Jun 1875, p. 3. While photographs were taken on his geological specimen collecting expedition for the United States centennial exhibition in Philadelphia, PA, the photographer has not been identified.
  		James Richardson news, Nanaimo Free Press, 16 Jun 1875, p. 3. A correction was issued for information published in the 12 Jun 1875 issue of the Nanaimo Free Press, the same information re-published by the Colonist on 15 Jun. This followup article also noted more photographs being taken around the Nanaimo area as part of his geological specimen collecting expedition for the United States centennial exhibition in Philadelphia, PA.
  		James Richardson news, Victoria Colonist, 11 Jul 1875, p. 3. Richardson and his group returned to Victoria on 10 Jul 1875.
  		James Richardson news, Colonist, 5 Aug 1875, p. 3. Sewell Prescott "Sue" Moody was the lumberman who founded Moodyville on the north shore of Burrard Inlet. He died in the sinking of the Pacific on 4 Nov 1875. Richardson went to the Lower Mainland to collect further material for the United States centennial exhibition in 1876 in Philadelphia, PA. Richardson returned to Victoria on the Enterprise on 4 Aug 1875 (Colonist, 5 Aug 1875, p. 3).

  
  

• Notes

  STATUS: Institutional (visit). BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: He was a Geological Survey of Canada officer who photographed coal mining activities around Nanaimo and possibly parts of Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Islands) and the mainland. He was a member of the 1871 GSC party which included the Notman studio photographer Benjamin Baltzly and his assistant, the artist John Hammond. According to David Richeson's essay in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography, he was the first to use photography in Canada to record geological features on a traverse of the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the west coast of Newfoundland in 1860. Hall notes that most of his field work between 1871-1879 was carried out in the far west. Richardson retired in 1879.

  
  

• Sources

  [S628] (Victoria) Colonist, (Victoria: Colonist), 1871-1872, 1875 (Reliability: 3). Various references [S408] E. Hall, comp., Hall (1967), (Ottawa: Dept. of Energy, Mines and Resources, 1967), 9-11. [S476] W. Stewart Wallace, ed., Wallace (1978), (Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1978). [S266] Frances G. Halpenny and Jean Hamelin, eds., Dictionary of Canadian Biography (1982), (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1982) (Reliability: 3). URL (accessed 7 Jan 2017): http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/richardson_james_1810_83_11E.html