[2][3][4] His commissions for photography in Victoria were varied, encompassing portraits of prominent citizens, public buildings, and street scenes,[1] and he sometimes took pictures at the request of the Colonial Office.

[4][8] On the west coast, he only managed to produce two negatives, but on the eastern side he had better results, photographing at Fort Rupert, Comox, Cowichan, and Nanaimo.

[3] Sometime thereafter, his glass-plate negatives and probably his stock of prints passed into the hands of the Victoria photographers Richard and Hannah Maynard, who then sold Dally's images under their own imprints.

[16] According to the foremost authority on Dally, Joan Schwartz, "his visual record of the beginnings of British Columbia surpassed those of his contemporaries in artistic ability, technical skill and market appeal.

"[17] Many of his views were used as the basis of engravings for the pictorial press,[1] and his photographs of wagons being pulled by ten-mule teams over the Cariboo Road have been used to illustrate books on the history of British Columbia.