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- Photographs
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Jan./Feb. 1956 (Creation)
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- Halkett, Bill
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- Victoria (B.C.)
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1 photograph : b&w acetate negative ; 10 x 12.5 cm
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William Gordon Halkett, commonly known as Bill Halkett, was born in Victoria, British Columbia, on October 7th, 1916, to Gordon and Florence Halkett. Bill entered the photographer profession promptly upon graduation from Victoria College. He started the commercial photography studio McDonald & Halkett in 1936, with an office at 5-1207 Douglas Street. The next year the business was renamed The Photo Mart. However, by 1939 the business was defunct, and Bill was employed as a photographer for the government of British Columbia. Soon after, in the latter half of the Second World War, Bill joined the Navy, and subsequently returned to work with the BC government. By 1948 Bill left the BC government to work as a freelance commercial photographer, and then joined Irving Strickland as the second staff photographer with the Victoria Daily Times (later the Times-Colonist). He was in this position until his death on February 8th, 1984.
Bill married Doreen June Scurrah on July 3rd, 1939, and they had two children, Murray and Sandra.
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Accession number: 2002-0304.