Cornish, John Charles^{[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12]}

1856 - 1935  (78 years)

• Name	Cornish, John Charles
  Born	15 Jul 1856	Toronto, ON   [13]
  Gender	Male
  Home Address/Year	1901	New Westminster, BC
  	Address: 6th St. at Queens Ave. New Westminster, BC Canada
  Business Address/Year	1901?-1905	New Westminster, BC
  	Address: Columbia St. Curtis-Armstrong Block New Westminster, BC Canada
  Business Address/Year	1908	New Westminster, BC
  	Address: 229 Columbia Street New Westminster, BC Canada
  Buried	1935	Mountain View Cemetery, Vancouver, BC   [13]
  Died	30 May 1935	White Rock, BC   [14]
  Association	Welsh and Company (Relationship: Employee; Successor)
  Person ID	I791	Camera Workers | C, vol. 2, 1901-1950
  Last Modified	2 Feb 2021

  
  

• Photos

  Sergeant Major J.C. Cornish, 2nd Battalion, 5th Regiment, Royal Canadian Artillery, photographed by the Edwards Brothers, 1900

  
  

• Notes

  STATUS: Commercial. BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: The New Westminster Columbian newspaper supplement for Dec 1903 published this summary of his career to date: J.C. Cornish, photographer, took up that line of work in 1901 and succeeded to the business of H.M. Welsh, but he is more widely known from his military career. He is a native of Toronto, where he was born in 1856, and came to British Columbia in October, 1887, as Master Gunner of ?C? Battery, Royal Canadian Artillery. Three years later he purchased his discharge after eighteen years? service, and finally settled in this city. His services as a military instructor are still valued at the local Armouries, and as physical instructor for the Central Public Schools, he is doubtless giving many youths the ground work for future careers as soldiers. An ad in the same issue of the Columbian stated that he graduated from the "Guerin Photographic College, St. Louis, Mo.," and produced plantinotype enlargements up to 24x30 inches, carbon prints, and "gems of art upon ivory, celluloid, opal glass, or metal." REFERENCES: Professional and Amateur Photographer, v. 7, no. 2 (February 1902): College Notes, "... J.C. Cornish of Vancouver B.C. ..."; (New Westminster) Columbian, 1903/12/supplement/68 (ad) and 72 (biography with portrait).

  
  

• Sources

  [S46] COLLECTION: BVIPA. MS-2631 and Visual Records accession no. 198201-80 [S42] HEN01, (Victoria, B.C.: Henderson Publishing Co., 1901), 439. New Westminster: Cornish, John Charles, military instructor, h. 6th st. & Queens ave. [S781] HEN02, (Vancouver: Henderson Publishing, 1902), 421. New Westminster: Cornish, J.C., photographer, Curtis-Armstrong Block, Columbia [S782] HEN03, (Vancouver: Henderson Publishing, 1903), 425. New Westminster: Cornish, J. C., photographer, Curtis-Armstrong Block, Columbia [S783] HEN04, (Vancouver: Henderson Publishing, 1904), 440. New Westminster: Cornish, J. C., photographer, Curtis-Armstrong Block, Columbia [S785] HEN05, (Vancouver: Henderson Publishing, 1905), 405. New Westminster: Cornish, J. C., photographer, Curtis-Armstrong Block, Columbia [S948] NW1908, (New Westminster, BC: Columbian Company, c1908), 75. New Westminster: Cornish, J. C., photographer; 229 Columbia street [S949] NW1909, (New Westminster, BC: Columbian Company, c1909). New Westminster: not listed [S732] HEN10, (Vancouver: Henderson Publishing, 1910). New Westminster: not listed [S795] HENVAN11, (Vancouver: Henderson Publishing, 1911). New Westminster: not listed [S836] Professional and Amateur Photographer (1902), (Buffalo, NY: Professional Photographer), v. 7, no. 2 (February 1902). College Notes, "... J.C. Cornish of Vancouver B.C. ..." [S663] (New Westminster) British Columbian, Dec 1903 supplement. p. 68 (ad) and 72 (biography with portrait) [S832] Find a Grave (Web site). URL (accessed 11 Jan 2017): http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=61424018 [S652] BVIPA death registration index. Registration no. 1935-09-502070 (microfilm reel B13154).