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Thursday, February 5, 2009

Grandma in the 20's


Let's go with Sherman into the Way-Back Machine again.
This is one of the pics we found in my grandparents' photo albums when they broke house because of illness.
Scanned in grayscale and then converted to sepia with Irfanview, it shows my paternal grandmother on the left in the 1920's at a Grand Trunk Boating Club event or location. That club does not exist anymore.

I found this on the web:
The Canadian Canoe Association was founded in 1900 in Brockville, Ontario. There were nine initial charter clubs: Carleton Place Canoe Club (Carleton Place), Brockville Rowing Club (Brockville), Brockville Y.M.C.A. (Brockville), Bohemian Amateur Athletic Association (Brockville), Lachine Boat & Canoe Club (Montreal), Grand Trunk Boating Club (Montreal), Britannia Boat House Club (Ottawa), Ottawa Canoe Club (Ottawa), Kingston Yacht Club (Kingston). Carleton Place Canoe Club is the only surviving charter member within the organization although the Lachine club has survived through revival. Brockville Rowing, Ottawa, Britannia and Kingston still operate but outside of the organization.

That wavy hair style is so typical of the '20's, no? She was a woman of the city, her husband of the country.

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