Mrs. John Gilchrist (Agnes Smith Thornton), C. 1870.
Description
- Creator
- Notman & Fraser, Photographer
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Photographs
- Description
- Black and white photograph, c. 1870, of Agnes Smith Thornton. She was born in Whitby Township, Upper Canada, on November 9, 1839, and married John Gilchrist, an Oshawa merchant, at Oshawa on December 16, 1862. She was the second daughter of Rev. Dr. Robert Hill Thornton, the first Presbyterian minister in Whitby Township who settled there in 1833. Mrs. Gilchrist died in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on February 28, 1926 and is buried at Union Cemetery, Oshawa.
- Date of Original
- 1870
- Dimensions
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Width: 10 in
Height: 8 in
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- 31-009-571
- Collection
- Whitby Online Historic Photographs Collection
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.88342 Longitude: -78.93287
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- Creative Commons licence
[more details]- Copyright Statement
- Public domain: Copyright has expired according to Canadian copyright law. No restrictions on use.
- Recommended Citation
- Mrs. John Gilchrist (Agnes Smith Thornton), C. 1870, Photographer Notman & Fraser, Whitby Archives 31-009-571.
- Contact
- Whitby Public LibraryEmail:archives@whitbylibrary.ca
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