Queens Avenue at Clarence Street, looking southwest, London, Ontario
Description
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Photographs
- Description
- Glossy print showing the Queens Avenue and Clarence Street intersection and in particular, Kingsmill Terrace, the large building on the southwest corner, also known as Butler Terrace or Ma Butler's boarding house.
- Notes
- Mrs. Ivy "Ma" Butler operated a rooming house in this building on the southwest corner of Queens Avenue and Clarence Street for many years. Two well known people who roomed at Ma Butler's were Walt Disney and the Honourable W. G. Webster, one time provincial Cabinet member and liquor commissioner for Ontario. Owned by Sidney Kingsmill of Boston, the building was acquired by Cities Heating Company about 1951 and sold to City Gas Company of London in 1956. The building was demolished in 1957. Ma Butler died January 12, 1961 at age 88.
The London Room photograph index card gives the date of this photograph as ca. 1940. - Inscriptions
- Reverse (handwritten in pencil) - Queen's Ave at Clarence, looking southwest
- Date of Original
- ca. 1940
- Dimensions
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Width: 34 cm
Height: 24.7 cm
- Image Dimensions
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Image Width: 34cm
Image Height: 24.7cm
- Local identifier
- 32104027706870
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 42.9854777173788 Longitude: -81.2483178625488
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- Creative Commons licence
[more details]- Copyright Statement
- Public domain: Copyright has expired according to Canadian law. No restrictions on use.
- Recommended Citation
- Ivey Family London Room, London Public Library, London, Ontario, Canada
- Reproduction Notes
- London Room Photograph Archives - PG O32
600 dpi tiff and jpg - Contact
- London Public LibraryEmail:research.request@lpl.ca
Website:
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London, ON N6A 6H9
