The houses were all torn down decades ago but in Flora Richardson Strang’s album, this lost city comes back to life. See the photos.
was one of Vancouver’s first dentists, and prominent in society circles in Vancouver and his native Ontario.
The second photo shows the same group posing in a giant canoe on the creek. Trueman and Caple were artistic photographers — it looks more like a pre-Raphaelite painting than a weekend picnic snapshot with some friends. One of them is early B.C.’s top architect, Francis Rattenbury, who designed the provincial Parliament buildings in 1898. Rattenbury is identified as Frank, indicating he’s a family friend.
A Trueman and Caple photo of the Richardson family and some friends at Seymour Creek on the North Shore in 1892. Flora Richardson has identified the people in the photo in her family photo album. The photo ran in the Vancouver Province in 1926 and 1936.In photos in Jasper, Alta., she identifies another suitor, Glen Farr, who was apparently shooting a movie there with Fox.
The family grew up in several homes in the West End, none of which survive. From 1894 to 1901 the family lived at 804 Hornby St., where Robson Square is today. In 1902 they moved to 1428 Robson St., which became the site of the recently demolished Sheraton Landmark hotel. There is a photo identified as “Picnic to Steveston, B.C., July 20th, 1894 SS City of Nanaimo,” for example, that features a throng of people peering over the edge of the boat.
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