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Accession # |
A2013.192 |
Title |
Elora photographs and printed materials, ca.1865-2013. |
Date |
ca.1865-2013 |
Description |
Elora photographs and printed materials, ca.1865-2013. The materials listed below were collected by the Waind family of Elora, and consist of photographs, postcards, albums and Elora High School yearbooks. SERIES 1: PHOTOS, LOOSE, ca.1865-2013. The front and back of most prints have been digitally scanned and saved to disk; usually, only the front image has been linked to this record. [MU 1172, AVC 15] - ph 41314: Digital copy of stereograph card. Text: "Looking west from Town Hall. House in foreground is Ross house. Other bldg. seen partly is old Chalmers Church. Picture probably taken about 1865 or 70." Rubber stamp "G.O. Hughes." - ph 41315: Digital copy of sepia print. Men, women and children, in costume and on a makeshift stage. Handwritten: "Temple of Fame, 1897"; on reverse: "Aunt Nel Maitland, second row end / Aunt Eliz Maitland, 4th in second row." Also identified: Dr. R. M. Thompson; M. Smart; Edison Brown. ["The Temple of Fame" appears to have been a drama or pageant, performed for example in St, Marys, ca.1900-1909 and Edmonton, 1911]. - ph 41316: Digital copy of sepia print. Gordon's Block with Dalby House, horse-drawn coach in front, ca.1900. [For additional information see A2023.61, page165]. - ph 41317: Digital copy of sepia print. Girl, seated, dressed in white, dwarfed by the Elora Gorge. Photo: J.W. Webster, Elora, ca.1900. - ph 41318: Digital copy of sepia print. Girl, standing, dressed in white, dwarfed by the Elora Gorge. Photo: J.W. Webster, Elora, ca.1900. - ph 41319: Digital copy of sepia print. Large group of men, women and children in Elora Gorge. Photo: J.W. Webster, Elora, ca.1900. - ph 41320: Digital copy of b&w print on a 1910 calendar; on reverse: "Wishing Jeane & Jack / A Merry Xmas / from Foof[?]; the illustration shows a fallen telegraph pole in the street during the Elora ice storm, 1909. [For additional information see A2023.61, page 427] - ph 41321: Digital copy of b&w print. Bridge at Salem; shows Allan's Store / Dry Goods and Groceries at right and Harness Shop at left, ca.1910. - ph 41322: Digital copy of b&w print. 30th Wellington Rifles, Col. Craig, Maj. Muir. There are four horses in the foreground; men at attention in the middle ground, and in the rear, field guns and a tent encampment, ca.1910. - ph 41323: Digital copy of a sepia print. Man, three women and horse in front of 2-storey masonry home. On reverse: "Mary A ---ow / R.R. 2 Elora / Nichol Township / 5 miles S E of P.O., 9 miles N W of Guelph / 6th Con. Lot 3." [The 1906 Atlas of Wellington County shows that Lot and Concession owned by James Dow]. Photo #6194, Carter and Isaac, Elora. Ont.; they were in Elora 1916-1923. - ph 41324: Digital copy of a b&w print. 12 women standing and seated, wearing white nurses[?] uniforms, red cross insignia; some identified as Gene Clark; Muriel Clark - Teacher; Bye; Kathleen Brown; Katherine Archibald Marston; Clara Jones; Jean McGowan Wardley, ca.1920. - ph 41325: Digital copy of b&w print. Men and women in costume on stage. A banner above reads: "Unappropriated Blessings" and a poem: "Backward turn backward O time In Thy Flight / Make Me A Girl Again Just For Tonight." On reverse, in pencil: "Circa 1910 / 1 - Elwood Davidson / 2 - Agnes Bell - (still living) / Wardley Collection purchased 25 July 1981." Photo: J.W. Webster, Elora, 1920. - ph 41326: Digital copy of b&w print. Men and women in costume on stage in the Elora Drill Hall / Armoury Hall (location determined from an annotated copy of the same photo held at UGASC, Connon Collection, XR1 MS A114_B4). A banner above reads: "Unappropriated Blessings" and a poem: "Backward turn backward O time In Thy Flight / Make Me A Girl Again Just For Tonight." On reverse: "Spinsters Convention." Identified: Al Davidson; Mrs. Broley; Mrs. Robertson; Chas. Reiner; Mrs. John McGowan, 2nd in rear row; Kate Rose. Photo: J.W. Webster, Elora, 1903. [ph 503 shows Mrs. McGowan in costume for the Spinster Convention, 20 Nov. 1903]. - ph 41327: Digital copy of copyprint of Miss Isabel Cleghorn, Teacher, and students, with names, at Salem Public School, 1930. - ph 41328: Digital copy of b&w print. Group of boys, seated, women, standing. Boys, l-r: Me (Bill Maben); Les McIntosh; Harold Wilson; Ray Cawthra; Gordon McIntosh; [name?]. Girls, l-r: E. Hayes; Betty Rogers; Jean Shafer; Ina Bosomworth; Lotty Cawthra; Mary Watt; Joyce Rogers; Janie McLean. The man standing is K. Menzies, ca.1935 - ph 41329: Digital copy of copyprint. Elora Public School, Grade 2 and 3, 1941. Front row, l-r: Alan Thomas; Hugh Waind; Grant Fraser; Wilf Gerrie; [name]; Fred Moynihan; [name]. 2nd row, l-r: Barb Arthur; [name]; Doreen Mortimer; Annie Harper; [name]; Marj Shepherd; Beatrice Witzel; Gwen Watkins?; Evelyn Kraft. 3rd row, l-r: Stewart O'Keefe; Norm Heseltine; [name] Ruller; Don Robinson; [name] Giesel; Royden Rogers; [name] Honsinger; [name]; Bob Lillie. - ph 41330: Digital copy of photocopy: Elora firemen in front of cemetery chapel: Back: Arnold Fuller; Tom Hayes; Bill Osborne; Fred Prentice; Bert Figg; Dolly Fladd. Front: Bob Fisher; Jack Sheppard; Frank Frankish; Adam Fladd; Albert Kerr; J. Cuthbert - Chief; 1940s. - ph 41331: Digital copy of b&w print. Unidentified presentation of pins or insignia to Barry Phillips; George Hughes; Dutch Tilker and one other man, ca.1960. - ph 41332 - ph 41352: Digital copy of 21 colour prints, showing the construction of the bridge; text on envelope "Bridge over Gorge / Hoffer." The Elora Gorge bridge opened in 1980. ph 41353: Digital copy of b&w print: Knox [United Church, Elora]. The Session: Back row, right to left: Wes Macdonald; Wilf Roszell; Bob Fladd; Archie Wilson; Alex Halls. Front row right to left: Alex Ewen; Bill Speers; Rev. Robert Whitehead; Doug Schwint; Jim Kerr, 1987. - ph 41354: Digital copy of colour portrait, Jim and Berna Kerr, ca.1987. - ph 41355: Digital copy of colour print. Bill Maben standing at attention in front of Salem Cenotaph, 11 Nov. 2002. - ph 41356: Digital copy of a newspaper clipping. Group photo of employees of J.C. Mundell and Co., Elora, 1948, with names; published in the Fergus-Elora News Express, 7 Nov. 2007. - ph 41357: Digital copy of In Memoriam card, obituary for George Hughes (1916-2013); he worked in the Bank of Montreal, Elora, 1958-1966. SERIES 2: PHOTOS, SPORTS TEAMS, ca.1880-1994. [Colour photographs unless otherwise noted] Subseries 1: Hockey, ca.1930-1993. - ph 41358: Digital copy of b&w postcard. Elora hockey team, standing in front of the Elora Arena (which burned about 1932), then located at 75 Chalmers St. Front row: James (Jim) McElroy; Harry (Hackey) Walser; Scott (Red ) Brown; Dorval (Fat) Houston; George (Geordie) Hillis; Gordon (Gord) Seiling; Arthur Kendall - Trainer. Back row: Robert (Bobbie) Fisher; Francis (Dud) Runnells; Jack (Dumpy) Runnells; Hugh (Hughie) Dickinson; Reginald (Reg) McGruthers, ca.1930. - ph 41359: Elora Rocks O.H.A. Intermediate 'C' Hockey Club 1979-1980. Includes names; includes letter to Hugh Waind Insurance, thanking the company for sponsorship, 14 April 1980. - ph 41360: Elora Rocks O.H.A. Intermediate 'C' Hockey Club 1985-1986. Includes names. Photo: Willy Archibald, Elora. - ph 41361: Elora Rocks Senior 'B' Hockey Team, 1986-1987. Includes names. Photo: Willy Archibald, Elora. - ph 41362: Elora Rocks Hockey Club, 1988-1989. Includes names. - ph 41363: Elora Rocks Senior 'B' Hockey Club, 1989-1990. Includes names. - ph 41364: Elora Rocks Hockey Team, 1990-1991. Includes names. - ph 41365: Elora Rocks Hockey Team, 1991-1992. - ph 41366: Elora Rocks Senior 'A' Hockey Club, Players and Executive, 1992-1993. Includes names. Subseries 2: Lacrosse, ca.1880-1994. - ph 41367: Digital copy of sepia print, Elora Lacrosse Club players, ca.1880. - ph 41368: Digital copy of a b&w print. Elora Lacrosse Club players, 1900. Photo: J.W. Webster, Elora, 1900. - ph 41369: Digital copy of b&w print. Elora Rocks lacrosse team. Front row: J.W. Jeffries; Bird or Fladd; Wilfred Wells; Jack Wells. Second row: [name]; [name]; Bob Hewitt; [name]; [name]; Back row: Jack Wells; Wilfred Halls; Dr. Kerr; W.P. Powers?; Charlie McGowan; [name]; Dr. McGregor, dentist; Eddy Bryans; Jim Power. "Wardley Collection purchased 25 July 1981." Photo: J.W. Webster, Elora, 1903. - ph 41370: Digital copy of b&w print. Composite portrait of Elora Rocks Lacrosse Club / Intermediate C.L.A. Champions / 1907. Includes players names on image, framed by thumbnail views of Elora Gorge. Photo: J.W. Webster, Elora. - ph 41371: Elora Minor Lacrosse(1). Photo: P. Clarke, Cambridge, 1986. - ph 41372: Elora Minor Lacrosse(2). Photo: P. Clarke, Cambridge, 1986. - ph 41373: Elora Minor Lacrosse Association / Elora Tykes. Photo: P. Clarke, Cambridge, 1989. - ph 41374: Elora Minor Lacrosse Association / Elora Mites. Photo: P. Clarke, Cambridge, 1989. - ph 41375: Elora Minor Lacrosse(1). Photo: P. Clarke, Cambridge, 1990. - ph 41376: Elora Minor Lacrosse(2). Photo: P. Clarke, Cambridge, 1990. - ph 41377: Elora Minor Lacrosse(1). Photo: P. Clarke, Cambridge, 1991. Includes Certificate of Appreciation presented to Hugh Waind Insurance, 20 Oct. 1991. - ph 41378: Elora Minor Lacrosse(2). Photo: P. Clarke, Cambridge, 1991. - ph 41379: Elora Minor Lacrosse(1). Photo: P. Clarke, Cambridge, 1994. - ph 41380: Elora Minor Lacrosse(2). Photo: P. Clarke, Cambridge, 1994. - ph 41381: Elora Minor Lacrosse(3). Photo: P. Clarke, Cambridge, 1994[?]. SERIES 3: ALBUMS, ca.1900-1960. [MU 1172, AVC 15] The front and back of most prints have been digitally scanned and saved to disk; Subseries 1: Wardley / McGowan album. [MU 1172] A note on page 1 indicates "Mrs. (Jean) Wardley collection purchased 15 July 1981." Includes 30 prints, some taken in Elora Gorge, identified as Mrs. McGowan, Sarah, Grace, Jessie, and Bill Jones, Aboyne. Sara McGowan (1887-1962), Grace McGowan (1891-1975), Jessie McGowan (1896-1990) and Jane (called Jean) McGowan (1894-1982), were daughters of John and Margaret McGowan of Peel Township. The family later moved to Elora, where Jean married mill-owner Timothy Clark Wardley (1893-1947) in 1916. McGowan then Wardley families lived in the "Drew House", Mill Street, Elora. - ph 41593: [page 1] Family at Drew House, Elora, ca. 1916; l-r: Grace McGowan, Jean Wardley; Jessie McGowan (standing); Catharine Johnston (seated); Catharine's Mum, Margaret Johnston (nee McGowan, seated. - ph 41594: [page 2] Margaret McGowan at picnic table by cave, Elora Gorge, ca. 1917. - ph 41595: [page 3] Margaret McGowan by a large tree at Elora Gorge, ca. 1917. - ph 41596 - ph 41597: [page 4] Margaret McGowan by rocky overhang, and with parasol, at Elora Gorge, ca. 1917. - ph 41598: [page 5] Margaret McGowan at Elora Gorge, ca. 1917. - ph 41599: [page 5] Catharine Johnston of Brampton, visiting her grandparents at Drew House, Elora. - ph 41600 - ph 41601: [page 6] Elora Gorge, ca. 1918; Man on steps with hat; possibly Jack Watt who married Grace McGowan. - ph 41602: [page 7] Newly erected house, ca. 1918; may be the home of Sarah McGowan (who wed Ben Broughton) and lived our west. - ph 41603: [page 8] Young girl, likely by the Grand River near Bissell Factory, Elora; identified in book as Sarah McGowan[?]. - ph 41604: [page 9] Woman in a garden, ca. 1917; - ph 41605: [page 9] Grace McGowan with headband, waving hand by a fence, ca. 1920. - ph 41606: [page 9] Woman with glasses, resting head on hand, ca. 1918. - ph 41607 - ph 41608: [page 10] Men and women in a garden; Grace McGowan identified at right with grasses partially obscuring her face; Bill Jones of Aboyne identified as man wearing cap. - ph ph 41609 - ph 41610: [page 11] Unidentified man, women and girl, possibly posed by the Grand River at [what was later] Bissell Park, Elora. - ph 41611 - ph 41612: [page 12] Unidentified group in garden; Grace McGowan in right of ph 41611, ca. 1918. - ph 41613 - ph 41614: [page 13] Women with tennis rackets in front of houses; Grace McGowan at left; Grace McGowan (left) with man and woman at a sundial, ca. 1918. - ph 41615 - ph 41617: [page 14] Woman harvesting wheat, ca. 1920; Three women; Grace McGowan at left; two women posed by a washing line[?]. - ph 41618 - ph 41622 : [page 15] Unidentified men and women, ca. 1918. [page 16] blank. - ph 41623 - ph 41624: [page 17] Young women posed with tennis racquets; one girl dresses as nurse[?], ca. 1918. - ph 41625 - ph 41626: [page 18] Young women by a tennis net in front of a house, ca. 1918. [page 19] Blank. Subseries 2: Hugh Waind album. [MU 1172, AVC 15] Consists of photocopy as found and photocopy as scanned. 25 images of Hugh Waind as a boy, growing up with his family and in class photos, Elora Public School, 1940[?] -1948; Field Day ribbons, Elora High School, 1948-1949; Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce staff. Subseries 3: Waind Elora views album. [MU 1172, AVC 15] Consists of photocopy as found and photocopy as scanned. 76 images of Fergus, Elora and area; Views of Elora train station; Town Hall; Mill; Mundell factory; footbridge; arena; William Sheppard's house; James Christie Dry Goods Store; Foote's house; Miss Hamilton's house; Norris house; Athelstane; Dr. Kerr with horse and carriage; views of the Grand River and Gorge; Alex McLaughlan poem "Elora"; churches; streetscapes; Wissler's Mill, Salem; Horse show, 1912; 6 views of Canadian Pacific Railway train wreck and ruined trestle bridge at West Montrose, Waterloo County, which occurred the morning of 31 January 1906; 10 views of ice storm which struck Elora, 23 November 1909; Hugh Waind fishing trip. Subseries 4: Waind Elora postcard album. [MU 1172, AVC 15] Consists of photocopy as scanned. 38 images of Grand and Irvine River views, also Fergus, Elora and Salem streetscapes. SERIES 4: PRINTED MATERIALS, 1954-1984. [MU 1172] - file 1: "The Work" (Toronto: Lautir Book Press, 1954), 168 pages; pocket-sized, leatherbound in blue cardboard slipcase. Includes sections titled: First Opening; Second Opening; Third Opening; Third Closing; First Closing; Initiation; Lecture - E.A.D.; Ex. B. P.; Passing; Lecture - 2nd D.; Ex B.R.; Raising; Ex A.R.; Calling From L. to R.; Calling from R. to L. [The Lautir Book Press published materials for the Grand Lodge A.F. & A.M. of Canada in the Province of Ontario, often known as The Masons or the Masonic Lodge] - file 2: Undique, yearbooks 1963-1967. [MU 1172] - Item 1: Undique / Elora District High School / Year Book / 1963. - Item 2: Undique / Elora District High School / Year Book / 1965. - Item 3: Undique / Elora District High School / Year Book / 1966. - Item 4: Undique / Centre Wellington / District High School / Elora / Year Book 1967. - file 3: Parker Funeral Homes, Calendar for 1982; includes b&w illustrations of area churches, by Percy Runnells: Bethany United; Knox Presbyterian, Elora; St. James Anglican, Fergus; Alma United; Central Pentecostal, Elora; St. Andrew's Presbyterian, Fergus; St. John's United, Belwood; Alma Presbyterian; Elora United, Maranatha, Fergus; St. John's Anglican, Elora; Melville United, Fergus, 1982. [STORED MU 1129 OVERSIZED] - file 4: Pre-1900 Historical Pictures of Elora Suitable for Framing from a collection of glass slides of Thomas and John Connon, pioneers of photography in Elora. Set of four sepia reproductions / $8.00 / Includes Islet Rock, Elora Pleasure Boat; Mill Street; The Gorge; published by Elora Independent Order of Oddfellows, ca.1984. [STORED MU 1129 OVERSIZED] |
Creator \ Maker |
Waind |
Creator \ Maker |
Waind, Hugh Waind, Phyllis Webster, J. W. Archibald, Willy McLaughlan, Alex. Runnells, Percy Wardley Clarke, P. |
Item Name |
Calendar Prints Stereograph Yearbook Album |
Person \ Organization |
30th Wellington Rifles Allan's General Store Alma Presbyterian Church Alma United Church Archibald, Kathleen Archibald, Willy Arthur, Barb Athelstane Bank of Montreal Bell, Agnes Bethany United Church Bird Bosomworth, Ina Broley (Mrs.) Brown, Edison Brown, Kathleen Brown, Red Brown, Scott Bryans, Eddy Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce Canadian Pacific Railway Cawthra, Lotty Cawthra, Ray Cawthra, Roy Central Pentecostal Church Centre Wellington District High School Chalmers Church Christie, James Clark, Gene Clark, Muriel Cleghorn, Isabel (Miss) Cleghorn, Isobel Connon, John Connon, Thomas Craig, J. J. (Lt.-Col.) Cuthbert, J. Dalby House Davidson, Al Davidson, Elwood Dickinson, Hugh Dow, Mary Drew House Elora Arena Elora District High School Elora High School Elora Hockey Team Elora Independent Order of Oddfellows Elora Lacrosse Team Elora Minor Lacrosse Association Elora Mites Elora Public School Elora Rocks Hockey Club Elora Rocks Lacrosse Club Elora Rocks Lacrosse Team Elora Station Elora Town Hall Elora Tykes Elora United Church Ewen, Alex Figg, Bert Figg, Burt Fisher, Bob Fisher, Bobbie Fisher, Robert Fladd, Adam Fladd, Bob Fladd, Dolly Foote Frankish, Frank Fraser, Grant Fuller, Arnold Gerrie, Wilfred Giesel Grand Lodge of the Free and Accepted Masons of Canada in the Province of Ontario Halls, Alec Halls, Alex Halls, Wilfred Hamilton, (Miss) Harper, Annie Hayes, E. Hayes, Thomas Heseltine, Norm Hewitt, Bob Hillis, Geordie Hillis, George Hoffer, Art Hoffer, Arthur Honsinger Houston, Dorval (Fat) Hugh Waind Insurance Hughes, G. O. Hughes, George J. C. Mundell and Company James Christie Dry Goods Jeffries, J. W. (Mr.) Jones, Bill Jones, Clara Jones, William Kendall, Arthur Kerr, (Dr.) Kerr, Albert Kerr, Berna Kerr, Jim Knox Presbyterian Church Kraft, Evelyn Maben, Bill MacDonald, Wesley Maitland, Elizabeth Maitland, Nellie Maranatha Canadian Reformed Church Marston, Katherine Archibald Masonic Lodge Masons of Canada McElroy, James McGowan, Charles McGowan, Grace McGowan, Jane (Jean) McGowan, Jessie McGowan, John (Mrs.) McGowan, Sara McGregor, (Dr.) McGruthers, Reginald (Reg) McIntosh, Gordon McIntosh, Les McLaughlan, Alex. McLean, Janie Melville United Church Menzies, K. Moir, Major Mortimer, Doreen Moynihan, Fred Muir, (Maj.) Mundell Planing Mill Mundell's Planing Mill Norris O'Keefe, Stewart Osborne, Bill Parker Funeral Home Phillips, Barry Power, Jim Powers, W. P. (Mr.) Prentice, Fred Reiner, Charlie Robertson, (Mrs.) Robinson, Don Rogers, Betty Rogers, Joyce Rogers, Royden Rose, Kate Ross Roszell, Wilfred Ruller Runnells, Francis (Dud) Runnells, Jack (Dumpy) Salem Cenotaph Salem Public School Schwint, Doug Seiling, Gordon Shafer, Jean Shepherd, Marge Shepherd, Marjorie Irene Sheppard, Jack Smart, M. Speers, Bill Speers, William St. Agnes School St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church St. James Anglican Church St. John's Anglican Church St. John's United Church Thomas, Alan Thompson, R. M. (Dr.) Tilker, Dutch Waind Insurance Waind, Hugh Walser, Hackey Walser, Harry Wardley, Jane Wardley, Jean (Mrs.) Watkins, Gwen Watt, Mary Wells, Jack Wells, Wilfred E. Whitehead, Robert (Rev.) Wilson, Archie Wilson, Harold Wissler's Mill Witzel, Beatrice |
Place |
Belwood Elora Elora Gorge Elora Gorge Bridge Fergus Grand River Irvine River Mill Street Salem West Montrose |
Subject |
Architecture Fraternal organizations Landscape Medical Military Mill Railroad Religion Sports Streetscape Weather |
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Year Range from |
1865 |
Year Range to |
2013 |
Accession # |
A2013.192 |
Containers |
STACKS MU 1172 MU 1129 o/s AVC15 |