Graydon M. Goodfellow, 1923
Description
- Creator
- Unknown, Photographer
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Photographs
- Description
- A black and white photograph of Graydon M. Goodfellow (1891-1950).
- Notes
- Graydon M. Goodfellow was born at Toronto on January 9, 1891 and learned the printing trade from his father who moved to Whitby in 1903 to start the Whitby Keystone, a local newspaper. In 1909 Graydon Goodfellow entered McMaster University at Hamilton and after his graduation in 1913, he became a partner with his father Charles Albert Goodfellow at the Gazette and Chronicle newspaper Whitby. The paper was published until December 1941 when it amalgamated with the Oshawa Daily Times. From 1929 to 1948 Mr. Goodfellow was a member of the Whitby Board of Education and served on the board of the Ontario Ladies' College for more than 25 years. He was a prominent Mason and a charter member of the Whitby Rotary Club in 1933. He was a member of the Town Council in 1917. He died while on vacation at Mobile, Alabama on February 7, 1950 and is buried at Union Cemetery, Oshawa.
- Date of Original
- 1923
- 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
- 31-009-065
- 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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