George Cormack, 1889
Description
- Creator
- W.E. O'Brien
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Photographs
- Description
- Black and White Cabinet photo of George Cormack.
- Notes
- George Cormack was born in Aberdeen, Scotland on March 17, 1830. He was an apprentice carpenter for 5 years in Aberdeen and was one of the carpenters who built Balmoral Castle for Queen Victoria. In 1857 he came to Whitby where he started a wholesale and retail lumber business. He shipped a large quantity of lumber of the American market and had interests in timber land in northern Ontario. He died at Whitby on February 20, 1894. He is buried at Union Cemetery, Oshawa.
- Date of Publication
- 1889
- Local identifier
- A2023_006_054
- Collection
- Whitby Online Historic Photographs Collection
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.88342 Longitude: -78.93287
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- Donor
- Anonymous Donor
- Creative Commons licence
[more details]- Copyright Statement
- Public domain: Copyright has expired according to Canadian copyright law. No restrictions on use.
- Recommended Citation
- George Cormack, 1889, photographer W.E. O'Brien. Whitby Archives A2023_006_054.
- Reproduction Notes
- Scanned from original photograph
- Contact
- Whitby Public LibraryEmail:archives@whitbylibrary.ca
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