by thadmin | Oct 27, 2024 | Historical
Photos of Canadian Newsmen visiting the Front - WWI (1918) Click on the book cover above her to see the photographs. A selection of news reporters from a variety of newspapers across Canada were invited to tour the Alled Front in 1918, courtesy of Lord Beaverbrook. He...
by thadmin | Aug 10, 2021 | Family, Historical
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by thadmin | Aug 8, 2020 | Family, Historical, Nature
These are a loose selection of images shot by my father in the years before he came to Canada (which was in 1955) and in the few years after his arrival. They are not in chronological order, although they should be. He worked as a ‘timber cruiser’ in the...
by thadmin | Feb 7, 2014 | Historical
Recently, a pal of mine (hi Gary!) gave me a small packet of old BW negs and what look like contact sheets of some of them. It is a “Hold-Pat Snapshots” album, without evidence of prior ownership or provenance. I think Gary said he picked them up as a flea...
by thadmin | Dec 6, 2013 | Beauty, Historical, love
I just posted some more new scans of old illustrations. This time from Lewis Carroll’s The Hunting of the Snark: Agnes Lickfold was my maternal...
by thadmin | Nov 22, 2013 | Beauty, Historical
While sorting some stuff in the basement I came across four old glass plate negatives that I picked up along the way here and there as a photo student at Ryerson lo’ these many years ago. So I scanned them in. After each image I have included a close up of the...
