The Queen's Plate
- Publication
- Canadian Illustrated News, 18 June 1870
Description
- Creator
- Unknown, Illustrator
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Types
- Negatives
- Prints
- Photographs
- Description
- Black and white negative of a photograph of a print of the running of the Queen's Plate that appeared in the Canadian Illustrated News on 18 June 1870.
Horses are racing around a track while people watch from the centre of the track. There is a large covered grandstand on the right side of the image. - Notes
- The Queen's Plate, Canada's most noted horse race, was run at Whitby in May 1870. The track was located on the west side of McQuay Street north of Dundas Street.
The race was attended by John Sandfield Macdonald, Attorney General of Ontario, and records state that there were more than ten thousand people present.
The race was won by Jack Bell. - Date of Original
- 18 June 1870
- Date Of Event
- 24 May 1870
- Dimensions
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Width: 6 cm
Height: 6 cm
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- 30-001-001
- Collection
- Whitby Online Historic Photographs Collection
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.8763655410382 Longitude: -78.9628601074219
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- Copyright Statement
- Public domain: Copyright has expired according to Canadian copyright law. No restrictions on use.
- Recommended Citation
- Queen's Plate
Canadian Illustrated News, June 1870
Whitby Archives
30-001-001 - Reproduction Notes
- Scanned from copy negative.
Print copied from Thomas Bouckley Collection - Contact
- Whitby Public LibraryEmail:archives@whitbylibrary.ca
Website:
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