Agnes Macphail Digital Collection

    Agnes Macphail socializing with young supporters

    Agnes Macphail (on the right) with an unknown man and woman captured in a lighthearted moment.

    Agnes Macphail and an unidentified male friend.

    Birth certificate issued for Agnes McPhail when she was 47. Agnes changed the spelling of her name to Macphail after she entered politics.

    Agnes Macphail was one of five presenters in the 1928 Chautauqua Lecture Series touring Canada. Agnes' lecture was titled "Woman and This Changing World". The photograph shows all the lecturers, incl

    Dugald and Henrietta purchased their home in Ceylon in 1925 and Dugald McPhail died five years later in January 1930.

    Agnes Macphail boarded with her uncle Daniel and aunt Maggie McGregor in Stratford while she attended Normal School. Margaret Campbell was the 2nd daughter of John Campbell and Jean Black. She marrie

    The photographer, D.H. Palmer, was the father of James Palmer who became Agnes Macphail's campaign manager.

    In the book titled "Eminent Women of Grey County" the photo caption states, 'taken at auction sale on McPhail farm, Artemesia Township in the 1940s'.

    See Grey Roots Museum and Archives, Accession No. GR996.43.5 for a different portrait of the same series.

    Studio portrait of Agnes Macphail as a young child with her mother, Henrietta McPhail (née Campbell).

    For more information about this photo see Grey Roots Museum & Archives: Accession No. 996.43.3 and South Grey Museum: Accession No. X977.815.1b.

    [See close-up photos of Lilly, Gertha and Agnes McPhail]

    Photo portrait of Agnes Macphail in a hat and fur trimmed coat.

    Agnes Macphail in a horse-drawn sleigh used for winter travel.

    Agnes Macphail conducted early political campaigns out of her family home at Six Corners, travelling in her Starr automobile to campaign platforms throughout her Grey County riding.

    [See photo detail of Hugh Bailey standing behind and to the right of Agnes Macphail]

    Agnes Campbell Macphail with E.B. (Edward Bigelow) Jolliffe's daughter, Naomi Jolliffe

    Agnes Macphail's brother-in-law Meredith "Merd" Reany (on the right), serving as a cavalryman in Europe

    Reverse: "PUBLIC ARCHIVES MSS. DATE DEC 30 1958"; also, [handwritten] "MacPhail Papers, Vol.10, File 3" and notation "rec'd from Mrs R J [French?]". Signature on the back is probably Agnes Macphail's