C.D. Hoy, Betsy Adams (née Duchamp) and George P. Adams, c.1910

This portrait depicts a couple in the early years of their life together: George P. Adams, a settler in the Cariboo region who is believed to have been of African descent, and Betsy Duchamp, a local Indigenous woman, were married in Quesnel on January 27, 1912. In his years as a photographer, Hoy took numerous family pictures, as many in the town did not own their own cameras.