Richard Maynard (1832–1907) was a Canadian photographer known mainly for his landscape views taken throughout British Columbia, along coastal Alaska and on the Pribiloff Islands of the Bering Sea.

[5] In 1868, he took his first long distance trip, up the Cariboo Road to the gold mining town of Barkerville, accompanied by his eleven-year-son Albert, nicknamed "The General", who kept the miners entertained with magic tricks and acrobatics.

[4] In May and June 1873, he received a government commission aboard the gun boat HMS Boxer which journeyed first to New Westminster, then up the east coast of Vancouver Island, continuing past along the mainland as far north as Bella Coola.

[7][8] His photographs included the first views of free-standing totem poles among the Kwakwaka'wakw at Klinaklini River,[9] and in Takush Harbour, he took six field portraits of villagers seated against the backdrop of a Hudson's Bay Company blanket.

In June 1879, Richard made a brief trip to Alaska, photographing local sites in Wrangell such as Chief Shake's house, and also making a stop in Sitka.

[14] In 1880 or 1881, Richard won a government contract to photograph the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway between Port Moody and Eagle Pass in British Columbia.

[17] On another government commission in 1884, Maynard accompanied the American explorer Captain Newton Chittenden on an expedition to Haida Gwaii, then called the Queen Charlotte Islands.

[18][22] Richard and his wife took a cruise in 1888 on the steamer Princess Louise to Haida Gwaii, photographing a number of localities there as well as on the British Columbia mainland and Vancouver Island.

[18] In 1890, Maynard won first prize in the professional category for his local photograph of Victoria Arm, in a contest sponsored by the West Shore, a Portland, Oregon magazine.