The Little Family, Sault Ste. Marie (Korah) Circa 1876

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Mystery Question

Can you confirm who the people are in this photo and where it was taken?

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Creator

Wm. Dunlop, Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., Photographer

Media Type

Image

Item Type

Portrait photographs

Description

This is a sepia toned photograph of a group of two adult females and three children posed in an outdoor camp setting.

The children are all dressed up, the female in a light colored long dress, the elder boy wears a suit, bow tie and hat while the youngest male sits in a small wagon wearing a fancy shirt, large bow and boater hat.

The eldest female stands at the center of the photo by the children wearing a long dark dress and hat while the other female similarly dressed holds her hat in her left hand by her side.

The two eldest children lean on a dining room table set with white table cloth and flowers surrounded by wooden chairs that is located under a large white tarpaulin at the entrance to a larger white tent.

Another smaller tent is seen in the photo at left as well as a small wooden outbuilding near which a metal tub is sitting. In the background is a forest of trees.

Notes

Notes accompanying this photo indicate that Francis Ann Little (Fannie) is the woman on the far left in this photo and that she was the scrapbook author's Great Grandmother.

The woman in the centre of the photo is said to be the author's Great Great Grandmother.

"S.C. Gardiner, Fannie's husband, in his writings ``In Days of Old: Experiences of an Early Settler`` written in 1920-21, wrote on page 28:

"The Little family left Bachewana 1876 and purchased a farm on the second line of Korah," now Sault Ste. Marie".

Linda Reeves also states

"I'm not certain of the other people but possibly L-R Sarah (Carson) Little, Fannie's mother, James Henry Little, Fannie's younger brother. He looks like younger photos of Uncle Lloyd Allen. Fannie had two younger sisters, Flora and Sarah Agnes. Perhaps the young woman. Fannie's parents John Tinniswood Little and Sarah immigrated from England around 1858."

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