Postcard of Colborne United Church Choir, Cramahe Township

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No written message on back, not posted, no affixed stamp.

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Handwritten note by Harold Harnden -
"Back row, from left to right: Mr. Prater, Dr. Latta (Johnson), Frank Mallory, Florence Clark, Organist, Rev. Foster, Mr. Lemon, Mr. Lemon, Brother, Pat Gale.
Second row, from left to right: Mrs. Lemon, Mrs. Peters, Mrs. Irish, Mr. Britnell, Ada Lock, Mrs. Edwards, Stella Gale.
Front row, left to right: Pearl Coyle, Mrs. Cochrane, Mr. Prater, Mrs. Morden, Mrs. Sam Dudley, Mrs. Foster, Mr. Bellamy, High School Principal, Ives, Maud Morden, Myrtle Edwards was Floyd Edwards' mother, he was organist for a good many years, in the 1990s. Nellie Yule, A. Loure.
Mrs. Florence Cracknell who lives in Colborne gave me these names, she went to this church and was married in it, she is 93 years old, but had these names on a sheet of paper, I got these from her Gertrude Davis."

This image was published in How Firm a Foundation: A History of the Township of Cramahe and the Village of Colborne in Cramahe's Digital Archives (3bk), p.124. The caption reads: "Methodist Church Choir of 1913: (back from left) Mr. Prater, Dr. Latta, Mr. Johnson, Frank Mallory, Florence Clark, Rev. Foster, Mr. Lemon, Mr. Lemon's brother, unknown, Pat Gale. Second row, Mrs. Colton, Mrs. Lemon, Mrs. Peters, Mrs. Irish, Mrs. Brintnell, Ada Lock, unknown, Mrs. Edwards, Stella Gale. Front row, Pearl Coyle, M. Cochrance, M.Prater, unknown, Mae Morden, Mrs. Sam Dudley, Mrs. Foster, Mr. Bellamy, Miss Ives, Maude Morden, Myrtle Edwards, Nellie Yule, A. Louie."

Argyris, Eileen. How Firm a Foundation: A History of the Township of Cramahe and the Village of Colborne. Erin, Ontario: Boston Mills Press, 2000.

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The following comment was submitted to the archives for 492ph (October 2018): "Correction: Myrtle Edwards was not the mother of Floyd Edwards but was his first cousin. Her father W H " Whack "Edwards and his father Charles Edwards were brothers."

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