George Washington Post Every, 1932
Description
- Creator
- Unknown, Photographer
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Photographs
- Description
- A black and white portrait photograph of George Washington Post Every.
- Notes
- George Washington Post Every was born at Pickering Village on March 3, 1880 and started his career as an engineer in the J.L. Spink Flour Mill in that village. He learned to be an electrical engineer at Niagara Falls and came to Whitby about 1911 to join the Light and Water Commission. When the Whitby Public Utilities Commission was formed in 1915, Mr. Every became its superintendent and secretary. In 1916 he took the 116th Battalion to France. He was involved in the Masonic Lodge and wrote a history of Masonry in Whitby in 1927. He died at Whitby on October 29, 1933 and is buried at Union Cemetery, Oshawa.
- Date of Original
- 1932
- Dimensions
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Width: 6 cm
Height: 6 cm
- Image Dimensions
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Image Width: 6cm
Image Height: 6cm
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- 31-005-001
- Language of Item
- English
- Copyright Statement
- Public domain: Copyright has expired according to Canadian copyright law. No restrictions on use.
- Reproduction Notes
- Scanned from a copy negative.
- Contact
- Whitby Public LibraryEmail:archives@whitbylibrary.ca
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