Camera Workers, 1858-1950

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

Name	R.H. Trueman and Company
	VARIANT NAME: Trueman Studio.
Gender	Unknown
Business Address/Year	1900?-1915?	Revelstoke, BC
Business Address/Year	1899-1905	Sandon, BC
Where Active (Non-Specific Address)	1894-1911	Vancouver; Kaslo; Grand Forks
	For business addresses see Trueman, Richard Henry.
Association	Trueman, Richard Henry (Relationship: Owner)
Association	Shand, E.M. (Relationship: Employee)
Association	Tourner, Arthur Douglas (Relationship: Manager (Revelstoke))
Association	Devlin, William (Relationship: Employee; Photographer)
Association	Montgomery, Walter Forrest (Relationship: Employee; Photographer)
Association	Calder, Walter Hughes (Relationship: Successor)
Person ID	I755	Camera Workers \| R, vol. 1, 1858-1900
Last Modified	3 May 2023

Photos » Slide Show		R.H. Trueman and Company view of the CPR cantilever bridge, Cisco, 1890s. Courtesy of City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 2-16.
		R.H. Trueman and Company, Cordova St. looking east from Cambie St., 1890s. Courtesy of City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 2-14.
		R.H. Trueman and Company stereograph, after 1900. Two Canadian Pacific Railway "Mogul" locomotives, 313 and 314, are depicted. The location is undetermined but could be Donald or Field, BC.

Documents » Slide Show		"Trueman's Studio" news, British Columbia Review, 1906.
		R.H. Trueman and Company ad, Revelstoke Herald, 27 May 1899, p. 3.
		R.H. Trueman and Company ad, Vancouver Province, 7 May 1902, p. 3.
		R.H. Trueman and Company ad, Vancouver Province, 6 Oct 1902, p. 2.

Notes

STATUS: Studio.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: After his partnership with Norman Caple was dissolved, Trueman ran his own studio. There are, however, no listings in the Vancouver directories between 1895-1898 to confirm this. Trueman did travel extensively during this period (the Medicine Hat News contained several mentions of visits). R.H. Trueman & Co. in Vancouver was first listed in 1899. Trueman frequently staffed the Revelstoke and Sandon branches himself. The Sandon branch was established by 1899 and Trueman was present in May 1900 when the city burned down.

The Revelstoke branch was also known as the Trueman Studio and was managed in 1915 by A.D. Tourner. One of his known itinerant employees was Walter F. Montgomery.

After Trueman's death in 1911, the business was acquired by Walter Calder.
REFERENCES: HEN99; HEN00; Letter, Hugh Dempsey to Mattison, 1980 04 09; McDougall (1981); McDougall (1981-82); Hadley (1984); BVIPA Visual Records Photographer File.
IDENTIFYING MARKS: print surface numbered, captioned and marked "R. H. Trueman & Co., Photo., Vancouver, B.C." or "R. H. Trueman & Co., Vancouver, Kaslo, Sandon & Revelstoke."