Camera Workers, 1858-1950

The British Columbia, Alaska and Yukon Photographic Directory, 1858-1950

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Macdonald, Emma

Female 1860 - 1893  (33 years)

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  • Name Macdonald, Emma 
    • VARIANT NAME: Maynard, Emma.
    Birth 1859 or 1860  Bowmanville, ON Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Where Active (Non-Specific Address) 1880?-1881?  Victoria, BC Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Death 21 Jul 1893  Seattle, WA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Her body was apparently never recovered from Lake Washington in Seattle.
    Association Maynard, Richard (Relationship: Father) 
    Association Maynard, Hannah Hatherly (Relationship: Mother) 
    Association Maynard, Albert Hatherly (Relationship: Brother) 
    Association Maynard, Hannah Hatherly (Relationship: Employee?) 
    Person ID I829  Camera Workers | M, vol. 1, 1858-1900
    Last Modified 20 Feb 2025 

  • Documents
    R.E. Gosnell's biography of Richard Maynard and family, <i>A History [of] British Columbia</i> (1906), p. 399.    		R.E. Gosnell's biography of Richard Maynard and family, A History [of] British Columbia (1906), p. 399.
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    R.E. Gosnell's biography of Richard Maynard and family, <i>A History [of] British Columbia</i> (1906), p. 400.    		R.E. Gosnell's biography of Richard Maynard and family, A History [of] British Columbia (1906), p. 400.
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    R.E. Gosnell's biography of Richard Maynard and family, <i>A History [of] British Columbia</i> (1906), p. 401.    		R.E. Gosnell's biography of Richard Maynard and family, A History [of] British Columbia (1906), p. 401.
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  • Notes 
    • STATUS: Commercial (assistant).
    • BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: A daughter of Hannah and Richard Maynard, she married to James Forbes Macdonald (1852-1912) in Victoria on 25 Jan 1879; she was 19 and he was 27. In the 1881 Canada census her age is given as 21, occupation, photographer, no doubt an assistant to her mother or father. By 1883 she was living in Seattle, WA, with her husband and two children (Washington Territory 1883 census). She is not listed in the 1891 Canada census. She and her husband, from whom she filed for divorce in Jun 1892, had three sons: Harry Hatherly Macdonald, Maynard Forbes Macdonald and Albert James Macdonald. Harry and Maynard came to live with Richard and Hannah Maynard after their mother died by drowning, a tragic victim of a lovers' triangle. Her portrait appears in a few of her mother's multiple exposure tableaux where she is carrying an umbrella.
    • REFERENCES: 1881 Dominion Census (OOA microfilm reel C-13285); Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 1893 07 22/8 and 1893 07 23/8; Mattison (1980 10):14-19; Wilks (1980); BVIPA Visual Records Photographer File; M. Cirelli to Mattison, 1992 08 06 (death date and obituaries).