Memorable Manitobans: Humphrey Lloyd Hime (1833-1903)

Photographer.

Born in Ireland, he was the photographer and surveyor for the second year of the Canadian expedition to Red River led by Henry Youle Hind in 1858. His photographs, including the first of the Red River Settlement, were published in 1860. He later moved into business, becoming president of the Toronto Stock Exchange.

More information:

Exploration Photographer: Humphrey Lloyd Hime and the Assiniboine and Saskatchewan Exploring Expedition of 1858 by Richard Huyda
MHS Transactions, Series 3, Number 30, 1973-74 Season

Camera in the Interior, 1858 by H. L. Hime and Richard J. Huyda (1976).

Source:

Dictionary of Manitoba Biography by J. M. Bumsted, Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 1999.

Profile revised: 18 March 2008

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