Studio photograph of Dr. Margaret O'Hara, Smiths Falls

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Dr. Margaret O'Hara of North Elmsley and Smiths Falls.

2nd Picture - Clergy/Staff of one of the local Presbyterian churches (seated front row - black dress)

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See Glenn J. Lockwood "Smiths Falls: A Social History of the Men and Women in a Rideau Canal Community 1794-1994." Smiths Falls: Corporation of the Town of Smiths Falls, 1994, pp.400-1, 453, 470 for additional information about Dr. Margaret O'Hara (1855-1940).

The Record News, 6 October 1887 noted the following:

"Miss Weir and Miss O’Hara left on Tuesday for Kingston to enter Queen’s University to study medicine. Miss O’Hara is preparing for missionary work in Japan. She was a member of the Presbyterian choir here, and before leaving she was presented with a purse of money and a handsome bible by her friends of that church and of the Methodist church."

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