Agnes Macphail Digital Collection

Markdale Standard, 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 fail

    The first part of a multiple-part article written by Agnes Macphail about her family history in Proton, Ontario

    The third and final part of a series of articles written by Agnes Macphail about her pioneer ancestors

    See close up of Agnes Macphail and J.S. Woodsworth, who was one of the founding members and first leader of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF).

    Agnes Macphail being honoured by her friend and protégé, E.B. (Edward Bigelow) Jolliffe

    Handwritten note on the back of the photo identifies the three adults.

    Agnes Macphail addressing members of the Canadian Commonwealth Federation (CCF)Convention

    Agnes Macphail at the back of the McPhail house in Ceylon

    Agnes Macphail in her garden at the McPhail residence in Ceylon.

    From left to right: Lilly Bailey (née McPhail), an unknown woman, Hugh Bailey (Agnes' brother-in-law) and Agnes Macphail standing in front of a pile of lumber.

    For her first sessions in Parliament, Agnes Macphail wore this blue serge coat and attracted much attention from the fashion reporters in the Gallery.

    Agnes McPhail's classroom timetable for Owen Sound Collegiate Institute is written on the back end page of her own copy of "Scott: The Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart." by William Chambers, LL. D".

    In 1992 this Act, Bill 35, proclaimed March 24th to be Agnes Macphail Day in Ontario.

    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 Agn

    Reverse: [stamped] "Herbert J. Holtom, 544 Bayview Ave, Toronto, Ont. HU.8-8530" Grey Roots Museum and Archives holds the evening dress and the rotating pendulum clock in their archives.

    Agnes Macphail's sisters Gertha Reany and Lilly Bailey in 1975

    Details about Agnes Macphail's flight can be found in her April 6, 1939 letter to the Durham Review.

    Agnes Macphail (left) with her sister Lilly McPhail

    Agnes Macphail reading to her mother Henrietta McPhail (neé Campbell) outside the McPhail home at Ceylon shortly before Mrs. McPhail's death

    A carefully signed professional portrait of Agnes C. Macphail