James Wallace, c.1875
Description
- Creator
- Unknown, Photographer
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Photographs
- Description
- A black and white portrait photograph of James Wallace.
- Notes
- James Wallace was born in Kincardineshire, Scotland on March 3, 1814 and came to Whitby before 1840. He was a businessman who worked as a contractor, newspaper editor and owner of a soap works and clock factory. He organized and financed the Whitby Highland Rifle Company and took part in the defence of Canada at the Fenian Raids of 1866. He was commanding officer of the 34th Battalion of Militia from April 26, 1872 to January 21, 1874 and from August 14, 1874 to March 23, 1880. He served on the Town Council from 1855 to 1857 and was Mayor of Whitby in 1856. In 1873 he was sent to England as a Canadian immigration agent. In 1879 he moved to Oak Park where he died on July 10, 1882 and is buried at Forest Home Cemetery, Oak Park, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
Photo of image in The History of the Ontario Regiment by Captain Lex Schragg. This book is available at the Whitby Central Library.
- Date of Original
- c.1875
- 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
- 31-007-001
- 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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