Marjorie Ruddy and Eric Adams, October 9, 1938

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Creator

Unknown, Photographer

Media Type

Image

Item Type

Negatives

Description

Black and white negative of Marjorie Ruddy holding Eric Adams beside a C.N.R. bridge on October 9, 1938. In this view Marjorie and Eric are smiling at the photographer.

Notes

Marjorie Georgina Ruddy was born at Millbrook, Ontario, on February 2, 1908, a daughter of lawyer Robert Ruddy. The family moved to Whitby in 1917 when Robert Ruddy was appointed junior Judge for the County of Ontario. Miss Ruddy attended Ontario Ladies' College and Whitby High School. In 1929 she organized the first Girl Guide Company in Whitby. In 1933 she began writing a column on birds for The Globe (Toronto) and in the 1930s she was a Whitby area reporter for The Globe and the Globe and Mail. In 1930 she began taking photographs in Whitby and was a commercial and police and press photographer until she retired in 1960. Miss Ruddy was the first photographer in the Canadian Women's Army Corps in 1942 and served until 1945. She operated a photo studio in Whitby from 1945 to 1960. Marjorie Ruddy later worked at the Whitby Psychiatric Hospital, and died at Whitby on September 15, 1980. She is buried at St. John's Anglican Cemetery, Port Whitby.

Date of Original

9 October 1938

Dimensions

Width: 1.5 in
Height: 1.5 in

Subject(s)

Boys
Children
Photographers
Trees
Women

Personal Name(s)

Ruddy, Marjorie Georgina ; Adams, Eric

Local identifier

A2013_040_867D

Collection

Whitby Online Historic Photograhps Collection

Language of Item

English

Geographic Coverage

Whitby

Ontario, Canada

Latitude: 43.8792131934788 Longitude: -78.9417963916015

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