Unlike Hoy’s Chinese sitters, his Caucasian and Indigenous subjects most likely did not understand the symbolism of the studio backdrops. Images such as that of a man (possibly Frank Roddie) (left) and of Long Jim, a Tsilhqotʼin man from Stone, are thus evidence of cultural transference in places where people of different ethnicities lived in proximity to each other.
Through the Lens of C.D. Hoy
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LEFT: C.D. Hoy, Caucasian man with pamphlet, 1912
P1530 Barkerville Historic Town Archives.RIGHT: C.D. Hoy, Long Jim, c.1912
P1604 Barkerville Historic Town Archives.