History Through the Lens of Leonard Frank provides a unique opportunity to look into the past to explore Abbotsford’s industrial beginnings: logging, an industry that had a lasting impact on virtually every community in BC, and was particularly significant in Abbotsford; the Clayburn Company, responsible for BC’s first company town and Abbotsford’s next largest economic driver and the drainage of Sumas Lake that began the shift from industry to agriculture.
Leonard Frank was a well-known professional photographer in British Columbia. He was born in Germany and first moved to San Francisco before travelling to Alberni, B.C., to work in the mining industry. He began his photography interest there. In 1916, he moved to Vancouver and began to work as a photographer.
The exhibition combines the resources of the Jewish Museum & Archives of BC with The Reach photo collection.
