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Markdale Standard (Markdale, Ont.1880), April 30, 1942, Not Known     Proton Township Girl Shoots Father Ruby Campbell, 14-year-old. Proton township girl, shot her father at the farm home on con. 14, early Saturday morning. The father, Robert Campbell, had been in failing health for several years and was not always in the best of humor. Family ...

    Portrait photograph of Agnes Campbell Macphail

    [Cover] Page 25. Article on Agnes (a good one) Mother so often laughed until tears came and would say "oh Aggie you're a terror" [Page 25] 3 in our family ? what a lie [Page 26] ? [illegible] [Page 27][arrow] this is the house in Ceylon

    [top]Owen Sound Collegiate Institute; [bottom]O.S.C.I.; [right][MIZPAH?]

    Ottawa, Feb. 24, 1927 Dear Friends: — The work of the Session is moving along rapidly, [sic] It begins to look as though we would be out of here at Easter or shortly after. The general tone of the House is much more peaceful than last Session. The Liberals have ...

    [Letterhead] House of Commons Canada Ottawa, May 19, 1925 Dear Mr. Sweeny:- I am sending to your grand-daughter, Agnes, a silver cup, and as I was not sure of her father's first name, I thought it safer to send it in yours. I hope she will drink lots of milk ...

    Sun. Apr. 8 [n.y.] Dear Donna, Have been reading with interest your efforts to revive Agnes MacPhail's [sic] memory. As a young person tales of Agnes were of interest to me, and I recall her visits to my grandfather's farm at Proton Station. (Robert G. Acheson) Grandpa had 6 daughters, ...

    "Free fun for the whole family" [South Grey Museum logo] Agnes Macphail Annual "Picnic in the Park" saturday June 21, 2003 11 AM to 3 PM Flesherton Memorial Park "Rain or Shine" Old time music A rare cylinder amberola Working vintage victrola Agnes' original piano Flute, violins Folk singer "Buy ...

    The Agnes Macphail Recognition Committee and Gary Malkowski, MPP York East invite you to An Evening with Agnes Macphail Readings by Diane Gordon March 24, 1993 - 8:00 p.m. Don Mills United Church 126 O'Connor Drive [Image of Agnes Macphail in formal wear--see link] Agnes Campbell Macphail March 24, 1890-February ...

    The Board of Education for the Borough of Scarborough Official opening of Agnes Macphail Public School by Robert J. Sanders Trustee, Ward 12 on Wednesday, April 28, 1982

    Mr. Farquhar Oliver is shown posing with Mrs. Gertha Reany (née McPhail) and Mrs. Lillian Bailey (née McPhail) in 1960 at the unveiling of the Agnes Campbell Macphail historical plaque in Hopeville, Ontario. Mr. Oliver, a good friend of Agnes’, served Grey South for 39 years as Member of Provincial ...

    Burns House, Mauchline. A 2347 [reverse]Dear Jean! Thanks for your letter - it was very welcome. glad holiday was enjoyable Uncle Orrin is very low - too bad. we leave for England in the morning. I go to London. Mrs Wilmot other other [sic] places. been more than a month ...

    Back and side view of the former Macphail residence in Ceylon, now privately owned.

    Photograph of the McPhail family tombstone in McNeil Cemetery, just south of Priceville. Agnes Macphail was buried here in 1954 alongside her mother, father and sister, Gertha.

    Sign commemorating Agnes Macphail is visible on Hwy 4 as you approach the village of Ceylon from the east. The former Macphail residence is located in Ceylon.

    Banner displayed in downtown Owen Sound, represents Agnes Macphail as a 'Local Hero: Politician, Feminist, Reformer'.

    [image] [caption]ERECT SIGNS TO RECOGNIZE AGNES MACPHAIL -- Helen McMeekin (niece of Ollie Irwin, who was a Holdfast Club member for 57 years), Donna Mann (Project Initiator ) Ruth Fidler (Neustadt W.I.), Gretha Holmes (W.I. President, Osprey), Norma Geberdt (Neustadt W.I.), Barb Tomes (Elmwood W.I.), Audrey Filsinger, (President Grey-South W.I.), ...

    Approach to Windsor castle upside down Windsor Castle

    Back to Scotland for a week befor [sic] going for all the time left to England befor [sic] the Empress of Canada sailed for Montreal on Sept 23/1952

    After a few days rest in Glasgow I went to Edinburgh