Baltzly, Benjamin F.

BALTZLY, Benjamin F., photographer (b 5 Apr 1835, Tuscarawas City, OH; d 10 July 1883, Cambridge, MA). Already trained as a photographer when he moved to Montreal in 1866–67, he joined the firm of William Notman and came to BC in 1871 as part of a Geological Survey of Canada expedition to gather information about possible routes for the planned transcontinental railway. During several months in the province he travelled by boat and pack animal up the FRASER and N THOMPSON rivers almost to the...

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