Mrs. Graydon Goodfellow and her daughter Virginia Goodfellow, c. 1940
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I have the original of this picture as it is of me and my mother, Olive Goodfellow. I gave a copy to the Whitby archivist, Brian Winter, and I assume he provided it to this collection. It is fun to see it in the archives.
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I have a book of "Shorter Poems" Selected by W.J. Alexander (Copyright, Canada, 1924) with the name A.A. Maxwell hand written in it, and under that, Rainy River Library. In the book is a simple tan "carboard" card, much like todays small recipe card, with a brief note hand written on it from Whitby, Ont dated May 15, 1950. It states: Dear Miss Maxwell, Here is the list of Longer Poems which I require for my exam - "Elegy, Written in a County Churchyard" by Thomas Gray, "Michael" by Woodsworth, "Ode to a Nightingale" by Keats, "An Epistle" by Browning. Thank you again for giving me some of your time. Yours sincerely, Virginia Goodfellow
(note: none of the above poems are in this 464 page book!) (My scanner quit working yesterday, otherwise I'd e-mail a copy to you.) Miss Maxwell 'might' have been a teacher in Sleeman, Ontario, at that time (perhaps in the Blue Twp.) which is about 7 miles east of Rainy River.
Well isn't that a coincidence! Hopefully Virginia Goodfellow sees this post and we can pass on the information to her. What a treasure.
Thanks for sharing, Whitby Archives
I just saw the comment about Miss Maxwell today. She was a teacher (possibly retired) from the Ontario Ladies College, who was providing me with some extra help with a Grade 13 English exam at that time. (I was only in Grade 12 but was attempting to write the Grade 13 exam without taking classes.) I am not sure I remember Miss Maxwell's first name, but it might have been Elsa.