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Ast, Jack

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Bakowski, B. B., 1883-1911

  • Personne
  • 1883-1911

B.B. Bakowski was born May 14, 1883 in eastern Europe and emigrated to the United States in 1901. Bakowski became a professional photographer in central Oregon that focused on scenic scenes of nature and views of cities for postcards. After living in La Grande, in 1910 he moved to Bend, Oregon, but Bakowski disappeared in February 1911 after a sudden blizzard arose while he was on a solo excursion to photograph Crater Lake. When he had not been heard from after a couple of weeks, a search was made of the area in which he was thought to have travelled, and although his body was not located, his sled and a shovel were found by searchers. Bakowski's photography equipment was discovered in late March by two other searchers at a different site that also had his provisions and clothing and appeared to be a makeshift shelter. In the months and years that followed, occasional searches would be made to find Bakowski's body, however none were successful. Some of the film that was recovered by the searchers in March 1911 would be processed and the images published.

During his lifetime, his postcard tended to be signed either B.B. Bakowski or Oregon Art Co.

Barrow, Robert Leslie, 1951-

  • PA 564
  • Personne
  • 1951-

Robert Leslie Barrow was born at Swan River, Manitoba to Tom and Elsie (Hogg) Barrow on January 20, 1951. He received his early education at Swan River and completed a photographic technician certificate program at Red River Community College in 1975.

Barrow was employed as a photographic technician with the Government of Manitoba's Information Services Photo Lab (1975-1976), as a photographer with the University of Winnipeg's Western Canada Pictorial Index project (1977-1979), and as a photographer with the Manitoba Museum's (formerly known as the Manitoba Museum of Man and Nature) audio/video department (1980-2003). Since 2003, Barrow has been self-employed as a freelance photographer. Included among Barrow's photographic exhibitions and creative projects is A Doukhobor Camera which was presented at the Manitoba Museum in 1994.

Barrow continues (2016) to reside in Winnipeg.

Bird, Dick and Ada, 1892-2003

  • PA 17
  • Famille
  • 1892-2003

William Henry Richard "Dick" Bird was born in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England on August 16, 1892. From an early age he developed a keen interest in cinema and still photography. His first cinema film experience occurred in 1905 watching Boer Was footage at the theatre in Leamington. Emigrating at the age of fourteen, Bird came to Vermont to live with an uncle in c.1907. His family later followed, settling in Fort William, Ontario.

Starting his career in Chicago, Illinois, Bird travelled extensively, gaining experience as a freelance cinematographer covering events for various organizations and film companies in the United States, China, Japan, Korea, South America, Mexico, and Canada, shooting newsreels, animated cartoons, travelogues and commercial motion pictures. In 1919, while living in Toronto, Bird was elected first president of the Canadian Professional and Press Photographers Association. Also in 1919, Bird played an instrumental role organizing Local 636 of the Cinematographers and Motion Picture Craftsmen, International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees Union.

In 1921 Dick Bird moved with his family to Regina, Saskatchewan to make documentary, educational and industrial films for the Saskatchewan government. He continued to shoot newsreels for Pathescope. He also founded Bird Films Ltd., a photographic shop, in Regina in 1928. During this time his photography often mirrored his achievements in filmmaking. This included flights of the RAF Forestry Air Fire Patrol in northern Saskatchewan, the opening of the Albert Memorial Bridge in Regina in 1930 and the Regina Riot of 1935. He also filmed the opening broadcast of Saskatchewan's first radio station CKCK in 1922, the first drilling for oil and gas in the province, as well as the visits of various dignitaries, including Edward, Prince of Wales, on his 1919 Canadian tour. In 1922 Bird founded the Canadian Cinema Arts Society. He continued to travel through Europe in the 1930s filming newsreels of the Spanish Civil War and Hitler Youth rallies.

By the 1930's, however, the primary focus of Bird's career had shifted to nature photography and conservation. Elected president of the Regina Natural History Society, he actively promoted public interest in wildlife. In 1937 he began a weekly program on CKCK Radio "Camera Trails". He published The Camera Trailer, a newsletter illustrated with his own photographs for distribution to his radio audience. He also started a nature club for children and encouraged nature field trips throughout rural Saskatchewan. Bird also produced commercial films for the Boy Scouts of Canada and the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool.

Soon after coming to work in Canada following the end of the First World War, Dick Bird had met and married Pansy Myrtle Fern Nix of Winnipeg, Manitoba. Actively supporting her husband's career, Pansy Bird managed and operated Bird Films Ltd. while Dick was travelling on film assignments. Dick and Pansy Bird had three children Gordon, Jeanne (Kaad) and Yvonne (Ellis). Their son died as a child and Pansy died in Mexico in 1937.

Ada Gertrude Bovee was born near Avonlea, Saskatchewan on December 21, 1917 to James and Gertrude (Nelson) Bovee. She was the youngest of six children. The Bovees came to homestead in the Avonlea area from Wisconsin in 1906. Trained in business and an amateur ornithologist, Ada also was active in the local Avonlea Sunday School, Mission Band, choirs and the I.O.D.E. She met Dick Bird in the early 1940s when he was invited to show films to her Canadian Girls in Training (CGIT) church group. Soon after Ada began working for Bird Films photographing birds, animals and flowers. During the Second World War Ada and Dick showed films and slides in many rural towns and villages in the province in support of the "Milk for Britain" campaign.

In December 1946 Dick and Ada Bird were married, marking a long personal and business partnership as cinematographers travelling throughout Canada, the United States and the world producing nature films and conducting winter lecture tours. From 1952 to 1955 they shot film footage for Walt Disney Production's True Life Adventure series. Their lecture audience included Harvard, the National Geographic Society, and the Smithsonian Institute. The Audubon Society sponsored many of their tours. The Birds' still photography taken during the period of the 1940's and 1950's is dominated by wildlife, flora, and natural scenery.

In 1960 Dick and Ada Bird retired from eight years of lecture tours to their property at Buena Vista near Regina Beach, which had been in the Bird family since the early 1940s. They continued to show films in Regina public schools to encourage awareness of conservation among school children, and also were guest speakers at various Canadian Clubs in Eastern Canada. In the 1970s Dick began work on his memoirs and on a history of photography, although ill health prevented the completion of this project. Ada worked from 1969 to 1983 with Muir Barber Ltd. in the hardware and gift business. After Dick's death in 1986, Ada moved into Regina. She continued to be active in many senior and church groups.

Throughout his life, Dick Bird received many honours. He was an Associate of the Royal Photographic Society and a Fellow of the Zoological Society of London. In 1950 he was the second Canadian, after Yousuf Karsh, to become a Fellow of the Photographic Society of America. In that year he also became the first life member of the Saskatchewan Natural History Society. In May 1976 Bird received an honourary Doctorate of Laws from the University of Regina. He was also honoured as Saskatchewan's Pioneer Cinematographer at the International Film Festival in Yorkton in 1979.

Bird Films Ltd. was, since its early years, very much a family business, operated by Dick and Pansy Bird, their daughters, and later their daughters' husbands. The business sold cameras, film and accessories and also had a studio and film lab. Dick Bird remained active in Bird Films into the 1960s. Bird Films continues (2005) to operate as a photography business with a third generation of family management.

Dick Bird died on September 27, 1986. Ada Bird died on October 3, 2003 in Regina.

Charmbury, T. H. J. [Theodore Henry James], 1879-1945

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  • 1879-1945

Theodore Henry James Charmbury was born on May 14, 1879 in Nuthurst, Sussex, England. He apprenticed as a photographer in Aldershot, Hampshire before immigrating to Canada in 1900. On December 21, 1900, Charmbury arrived in Prince Albert, North-West Territories (now Saskatchewan), where he briefly apprenticed with photographer William James before establishing his own photography studio. Charmbury married Aphra Roundtree Jones in Prince Albert on April 29, 1902. The Charmburys had nine children: Gordon, Robert, Harry, Phyllis, Rose, Pat, Jeanette, Theodora (Mike) and Aphra. Theodore Charmbury also travelled throughout the North-West Territories taking pictures and worked briefly in real estate with Clarence M. Turner.

In 1918, the Charmbury family moved to Saskatoon, where Theodore Charmbury established Charmbury's Studios. Gordon and Harry Charmbury assisted Theodore in operating the studio, which did portraiture work, weddings, funerals, harvest scenes, and theatrical group pictures. Two fires, in 1931 and 1942, destroyed many of the early negatives that Theodore Charmbury had accumulated. Around 1938, Theodore Charmbury retired and his son, Harry, became proprietor of the studio, which he ran until 1970. In 1942, Gordon Charmbury returned to Saskatoon after working as a photographer in Toronto, Ontario to assist Harry in operating the studio. In 1957, Gordon Charmbury moved to Calgary, Alberta to take over the family's studio, which he operated until his retirement.

Theodore Charmbury died in Saskatoon on December 5, 1945. Aphra Charmbury died on May 20, 1946. Gordon Charmbury died on August 7, 1980 in Calgary. Harry Charmbury died in Saskatoon on August 15, 1993.

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