83rd Birthday for Harriet and Mary Pringle
Description
- Creator
- Marjorie G. Ruddy, Photographer
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Types
- Photographs
- Negatives
- Description
- Black and white negative of a photograph of Harriet Wilson (nee Pringle) and Mary Cormack (nee Pringle), right, on the occasion of their 83rd birthday. They are seated on a bench in Mary's garden on Dundas Street. This photograph was published in the Times-Gazette on 23 July 1946.
- Notes
- Harriet and Mary Pringle were twin daughters of James Pringle, a Whitby hotel keeper, and his wife, Mary Corbett. The twins were born 23 July 1863 in the National Hotel at the north-east corner of Brock and Water Streets at Port Whitby.
The Pringle twins were the first children to be baptized in St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church which opened in November 1859.
In 1955 Harriet became Whitby's Centennial Queen being, at the age of 92, the town's oldest native resident. Mary died at Whitby 31 May 1950 and Harriet died at Whitby 17 June 1957.
The John Pringle family came to Canada from Edinburgh, Scotland in 1833. In 1836 the family relocated to Whitby from Cobourg. - Date of Original
- 23 July 1946
- Dimensions
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Width: 12
Height: 10
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- 19-020-002
- Collection
- Whitby Online Historic Images Collection
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.88342 Longitude: -78.93287
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- Copyright Statement
- Public domain: Copyright has expired according to Canadian copyright law. No restrictions on use.
- Recommended Citation
- Whitby Archives
- Reproduction Notes
- Scanned from copy negative.
- Contact
- Whitby Public LibraryEmail:archives@whitbylibrary.ca
Website:
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