May Court Festival, 1938
Description
- Creator
- Marjorie Ruddy, Photographer
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Types
- Negatives
- Photographs
- Description
- Black and white negative showing the crowning of Betty Doe, May Queen at Ontario Ladies' College in 1938. She is kneeling between her young attendants. Older girls are lined up waiting for her to walk to her throne.
The May Court Festival has been celebrated at Ontario Ladies' College/Trafalgar Castle School since 1907. - Notes
- Trafalgar Castle was built for Nelson Gilbert Reynolds (1814-1881), Sheriff of Ontario County from 1852 to 1881. Trafalgar Castle was designed by Toronto architect, Joseph Sheard and built between 1859 and 1862. The Sheriff lived in Trafalgar Castle from 1862 until 1874 when he sold the building to the Methodist Church of Canada for use as a ladies college. Ontario Ladies' College is now known as Trafalgar Castle School, and is located at 401 Reynolds Street.
- Date of Original
- 24 May 1938
- Dimensions
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Width: 3.5 cm
Height: 2.5 cm
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- 23-000-412
- Collection
- Whitby Online Historical Images Collection
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.8784398511361 Longitude: -78.9327841693115
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- Creative Commons licence
[more details]- Copyright Statement
- Public domain: Copyright has expired according to Canadian copyright law. No restrictions on use.
- Recommended Citation
- May Court Festival, 1938
- Reproduction Notes
- Scanned from copy negative.
- Contact
- Whitby Public LibraryEmail:archives@whitbylibrary.ca
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