By Alyssa Hamer on Nov 2, 2016
A series of a smaller collections here during UBC Library enclose truly engaging and singular calm that provides judicious chronological viewpoint on early British Columbian history. Today we’re highlighting one such example: a Archibald Murchie Collection is done adult of some-more than 50 photographs taken in a late 1800’s and early 1900’s by “B.C.’s Evangelist photographer”.
Yale, B.C., ca. 1900
Ten equine group skidding logs, between 1890 and 1910
These photographs underline imagery from a Cariboo and Similkameen regions of a province, highlighting a infrastructure projects and growth in these areas by early settlers. Bridge, dam and tyrannise construction projects figure prominently, as do landscape shots of a flourishing cities, scenes of crews during work, and internal First Nations peoples.
Lytton, B.C., between 1890 and 1910
First Nations family outward their home in Chilliwack, B.C., between 1890 and 1910
First dumpcart in Cariboo, B.C., between 1890 and 1910
Archibald Murchie (1852-1930) was a Scottish newcomer and preacher apportion for a Spiritualist Church, an off-shoot of a Church of England. In a late 1800’s he motionless to evangelise as a companion in B.C.’s interior, and around a same time was hired to sketch a construction of a overpass over a Fraser River during Sheep Creek. As construction valid to be sincerely slow, Murchie took a event to transport to surrounding regions and sketch a flourishing towns and cities that were growing up. After a unsuccessful try during heading his possess bishopric in Princeton, B.C., Murchie set adult a photography studio in Ashcroft, B.C., eventually marrying and relocating to a Okanagan Valley.
Bridge construction in swell during Sheep Creek on a Fraser River, between 1890 and 1900
Stagecoach during 100 Mile House, B.C., between 1890 and 1910
First Nations group and women on riverbank, between 1890 and 1910
At his genocide in 1930, Murchie’s widow remarried and broken all of his detailed equipment. It was usually by possibility that, in 1948, several potion image negatives were recovered from a duck residence underneath repair. Another engaging fact: Archibald’s hermit was a owner of a now obvious internal company, Murchie’s Tea Coffee.
Man with dogs in snowy forest, between 1890 and 1910
Princeton, B.C., between 1890 and 1910
Men loading bobsled with logs nearby Westbank, B.C., ca. 1910
This collection is housed during UBC Okanagan Library’s Special Collections and Archives, and is a partial of a Doug and Joyce Cox Research Collection. To perspective some-more images from a Archibald Murchie collection, click here!
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