Maker/Artist
Henderson, Alexander
Canadian photographer, 1831-1913
Henderson settled in Montréal, Québec, Canada in 1855 and began photographing ca. 1857. In 1859, Henderson became the first North American member of the Stereoscopic Exchange Club, a group of British amateur photographers who exchanged stereographs of their own making. In the 1860s and 1870s, he photographed around Ottawa, Ontario, the Eastern Townships, Lake Memphremagog, Trois-Rivières, the north shore of the Gulf of St Lawrence, Manitoulin Falls, Labrador, Gaspé, Québec, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia. In 1866-1867, Henderson operated a portrait studio in Montréal, Québec. From 1872 to 1875, Henderson worked for the Intercolonial Railway, photographing the Rivière-du-Loup (Québec)-Halifax (Nova Scotia) railroad line. In 1874 Henderson advertised himself as a landscape photographer in Montréal. In 1878 Henderson produced an album for the Canadian Government of photographs taken along the Québec-Montréal-Ottawa railway line. Published in 1879, the album was entitled "Album of Photographs of Wrought Iron Railroad Bridges Constructed and Erected for the Government of Ottawa and the Occidental Railway". In 1885 he travelled to western Canada to photograph rail lines at Kicking Horse Pass, Rogers Pass, and Mount Selkirk in Alberta and British Columbia. In 1889 Henderson founded the Montréal Camera Club. He acted as president until 1892 and was a member until 1899. From 1892 to 1897, Henderson was director of Canadian Pacific Railway's photographic division in Victoria, British Columbia. Canadian photographer, born in Scotland.
