Multicoloured plaque № 49959

Kamloops, BC, Canada

John Scales, Photographer (1875-1955). John Scales operated a commercial photography business at 219 Victoria Street for over forty years. He was born in Sidcup, England, a small town south-east of London, where he trained as a photographer. Scales immigrated to Canada in 1899 and homesteaded in Lac

ombe, Alberta, but he soon gave up farming for photography. His wife Ethel immigrated in 1910 and after moving to Kamloops in 1911 they opened a photographic studio. The Inland Sentinel proclaimed it

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