{"id":31430,"date":"2025-05-08T01:03:19","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T05:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=31430"},"modified":"2025-05-06T19:50:58","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T23:50:58","slug":"hodgkinson-butters-early-takers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/hodgkinson-butters-early-takers\/","title":{"rendered":"Hodgkinson & Butters Early Takers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Toronto<\/strong>. Graham Garrett, perhaps best remembers for his research on early Canadian Daguerreotypists, researched and wrote a number of articles for Photographic Canadiana. In issue 23-3 He wrote an article on the daguerreotype photographers Hodgkinson & Butters titled, “Hodgkinson & Butters\u00a0Early Takers in Atlantic Canada” in the column “Rediscovering Canada\u2019s Photographic Heritage”.<\/p>\n

Graham’s article begins with this pr\u00e9cis: “Recently, [May 1997] Canada celebrated the opening of the new 13-kilometre long <\/i>Confederation Bridge constructed across Northumberland Strait between<\/i>New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island. <\/i><\/p>\n

“The principal reason for this\u00a0<\/i>imaginative engineering project was to fulfill one of the promises made to\u00a0<\/i>the latter province in 1873 for year-round transportation to and from the\u00a0<\/i>mainland. When the span was completed it marked the passing of a familiar\u00a0<\/i>way of life in the region, notably the ferry service that had served residents\u00a0<\/i>and visitors alike for generations. <\/i><\/p>\n

“Actually, the first commercial steam-pro<\/i>pelled vessel to ply Northumberland Strait commenced service between\u00a0<\/i>Pictou and Charlotte Town 11 May 1832 on a twice-weekly schedule. There\u00a0<\/i>were also many hardy individuals during the nineteenth-century who thought\u00a0<\/i>little of navigating the windswept passage in small sailing craft or even open\u00a0<\/i>boats. <\/i><\/p>\n

“Unfortunately, this method of transportation had a reputation for\u00a0<\/i>being risky at certain times of the year, something that was discovered by two\u00a0<\/i>itinerant daguerreian artists who almost lost their lives in 1843 as passen<\/i>gers on one of these early predecessors of the modern-day ferry.” …<\/i><\/p>\n

You can read all of Graham\u2019s article in full, plus other articles in the issue 23-3 pdf on the free members-only DVD\/thumb drive. Joining the PHSC is easy (see MEMBERSHIP above and at right). Any membership questions? Email our membership secretary Lilianne at member@phsc.ca<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Dags (and lots of other photo collectibles) often show up at our events (see PHSC EVENTS at right). Email Mark or Clint at fair@phsc.ca<\/a> if you have any questions. Our next event is our May 25th fair this Month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Toronto. Graham Garrett, perhaps best remembers for his research on early Canadian Daguerreotypists, researched and wrote a number of articles for Photographic Canadiana. In issue 23-3 He wrote an article on the daguerreotype photographers Hodgkinson & Butters titled, “Hodgkinson & … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1944],"tags":[2259,627,1235,686,220],"class_list":["post-31430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-dags","tag-daguerreotypes","tag-maritimes","tag-photographers","tag-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31430"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31434,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31430\/revisions\/31434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}