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Group Portrait with Agnes Macphail at Nenagh School Picnic

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Creator

Walls, Archie [?], Photographer

Media Type

Image

Item Type

Photographs

Description

School picnic at U.S.S.#3 Nenagh (Egremont & Normanby) in Normanby Township, Grey County, just west of Highway 6 on the 2nd Concession.
Back row, from left to right:
Archie McPhee (1857-1949) (Long Archie) son of Neil McPhee; Bridget Ryan; Nellie McPhee (1866-1953) daughter of Malcolm McPhee; unknown; unknown; unknown; Agnes McPhail (1890-1954); Jim Elder, husband of Effie McPhee, daughter of Hector McPhee and sister of Annie McPhee; Janet McPhee (1859 - 1950) daughter of Neil McPhee on Conc 3 Lot 51; Bill Haas, husband of Annie McPhee; Annie McPhee Haas (1890 - 1944) daughter of Hector McPhee; Charlie Wilson.
Front row from left to right:
Leah Olive; Margaret Elder, daughter of Jim Elder and Effie McPhee Elder; unknown younger child in front with beret; three boys in caps are the Weiser brothers, sons of Fred and Mary Weiser; Ruth Walls (1919-1996) sister of Archie Walls; unknown children; Mayme Weiser, daughter of Fred and Mary Weiser, is on the extreme right.
Archie Walls was the Nenagh school teacher at the time of this photograph.

Notes

According to one of the school children, a McPhee who remembers the picnic, Agnes Macphail spoke to the group from a platform. The McPhee extended family tended to vote Liberal, but had voted for Agnes Macphail and were happy to have her at this picnic.

Inscriptions

1929 or 30; Nenagh Picnic; The Old and the Young

Date of Original

1929-30

Date Of Event

1929-30

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