Crowd Waiting for the Royal Train
Description
- Creator
- Marjorie G. Ruddy, Photographer
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Types
- Negatives
- Photographs
- Description
- Black and white negative of a group of people standing behind a rope at the Canadian Pacific Railway station on Brock Street in Whitby. They are awaiting the arrival of the Royal Train with King George VI and Queen Elizabeth on board.
Metcalfe Foods Ltd. can be seen in the background at right.
From left to right: unidentified, Helen Hoar, unidentified, ____ Richardson, Edie Hoar, Gladys Dilling, Bill Dilling, unidentified, Vega Vaselesky. - Notes
- In May 1939 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth made a royal tour of Canada. They stopped in Whitby for about ten minutes.
- Date of Original
- 22 May 1939
- Dimensions
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Width: 3.5 cm
Height: 2.5 cm
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- 30-008-006
- Collection
- Whitby Online Historic Photographs Collection
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.8883671010641 Longitude: -78.9458656311035
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- Copyright Statement
- Public domain: Copyright has expired according to Canadian copyright law. No restrictions on use.
- Recommended Citation
- Crowd Waiting for Royal Train, May 1939
Marjorie G. Ruddy
Whitby Archives
30-008-006 - Reproduction Notes
- Scanned from original negative.
- Contact
- Whitby Public LibraryEmail:archives@whitbylibrary.ca
Website:
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