Yacht Race Winners and Host, 1936

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Marjorie Ruddy, Photographer

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Negatives

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A black and white negative of Ward Irwin and Betty Arnold, winners of the Moorland Cup, with Commodore J.H. Perry and W.H. Moore M.P. From left to right: Commodore J.H. Perry, W.H. Moore, Betty Arnold and Ward Irwin. A building can be seen in the background.

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Moorland Cup was a sailing race from Whitby, Ontario. The cup was created and awarded by W.H. Moore M.P. After the race the competitors attended an event hosted by Mr. Moore at his home, Moorland. Moorland Estate was located near the mouth of the Rouge River. The property was expropriated in the 1960s and become the Petticoat Creek Conservation Area in 1975.

This photograph was published in The Evening Telegraph on September 9, 1936.

Marjorie Georgina Ruddy (1908-1980) was a prominent Whitby photographer and the only commercial photographer in Whitby during the 1930s and 1940s. Marjorie was the official photographer for the Whitby Police Department starting in the 1930s and as a result took many photographs of car accidents, fingerprints and crime scenes. (Station Gallery. Whitby Through the Lens Photographs by Marjorie G. Ruddy, 1935-1948. Whitby: Station Gallery, 2010.)

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