Item R-A4441 - Democrat wagon in Shellbrook

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Democrat wagon in Shellbrook

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R-A4441

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  • ca. 1910 (Creation)
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    James, William John, 1870-1944

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1 photograph : print, b&w
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(1870-1944)

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William John (W.J.) James was born on December 23, 1870 to William, Sr. and Maria James of the Fordwich area, Howick Township, Huron County, Ontario. His father was a blacksmith and carriage maker in Ontario, and first travelled west with the Wolseley Red River Expedition in 1870.

W.J. James came to Prince Albert, Northwest Territories ca.1890. His family followed around 1893. Both James and his father were employed by the James Sanderson sawmill as labourers. W.J. James became a barber while also establishing a photograph business briefly with W.J. Jackson in 1894. James continued in barbering while also working as an itinerant photographer in the 1890s. He hired Theodore Charmbury as a photographer in his studio between 1901 and 1903, and operated a branch studio at Indian Head in 1904-1906. James operated the City Art Studio (1909-1919) and W.J. James & Co. (est.1927) in Prince Albert until his retirement in the mid-1930s.

James' professional career as an itinerant, commercial and portrait photographer spanned over forty years during which he travelled extensively in the Prince Albert district and northern parkland regions of Saskatchewan documenting settlement, local industry and everyday life. William John James died on September 9, 1944 in Prince Albert and is buried in St. Mary's Cemetery in Prince Albert.

W.J. James married Maude Rebecca Courtney on April 27, 1904 in Prince Albert. They had four children: Mossie; "Eva" Eunice; Norma; and Murl.

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Democrat wagon drawn by a team of horses and occupied by three adults and two children. Democrat is position in front of a Shellbrook livery barn, and additional buggies and a wagon loadies with milk cans. ca. 1910?

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Fonds Title: HPI

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121454

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R-A4441

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Saskatchewan Archives. Archival Description Manual 2004.

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  • English

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  • Latin

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