Humphrey Lloyd Hime (17 September 1833 – 31 October 1903) was an Irish-Canadian photographer, surveyor, businessman, and politician.

He accompanied Henry Youle Hind on his 1858 Assiniboine and Saskatchewan Exploring Expedition, which was meant to assess the viability of settling Western Canada.

Hoping to expand west into territory owned by the Hudson's Bay Company, proponents of expansion needed to convince legislators and Canadians that moving westward was feasible and beneficial.

To this point, the north-west had only been seen as a fur-trading hinterland, impossible to settle due to the inhospitable landscape of the Canadian Shield.

[5] To do so, several expeditions were funded by the Canadian and British governments in order to assess the viability of agrarian settlements in Rupert's Land.

[9] Departing from Toronto on 29 April, the expedition moved to Detroit, through the Great Lakes, to Grand Portage, where they canoed to the Red River settlement, arriving 1 June.

With photography in its infancy, controlled environmental conditions, including humidity and temperature, were critical for clear photographs.

Instead of being seen as either tundra or an arctic wasteland, photographs of plains reinforced the belief that suitable agricultural settlements could be established.

[14] Politicians such as Thomas D'Arcy McGee would argue a decade later than "the future of the Dominion depends on our early occupation of the rich prairie land".

[16] In 1860, Hime had established his own brokerage firm despite having no previous experience in the field, something he shared with nearly half of the city's brokers.

Hime joined the reborn stock exchange in 1871, serving as its president in 1888–1889,[18] and remained a member until 1898, when he passed his seat to his son A. G.

In this capacity he was described as a man of "untiring zeal and energy, great popularity, and of thoroughly practical experience" by author Charles Mulvany.