Awaiting the Royal Train
Description
- Creator
- Marjorie G. Ruddy, Photographer
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Types
- Negatives
- Photographs
- Description
- Black and white negative showing a large group of people waiting for the arrival of the Royal Train at the Canadian Pacific Railway station at Brock Street in Whitby. The men standing further out on the platform are members of the Canadian Legion Guard of Honour.
View looking west along the station platform.
The Metcalfe Foods Ltd. canning factory is visible in the background. - Notes
- In May 1939 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth made a royal tour of Canada. They stopped in Whitby for about ten minutes.
- Date of Original
- 22 May 1939
- Dimensions
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Width: 3.5 cm
Height: 2.5 cm
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- 30-008-010
- Collection
- Whitby Online Historic Photographs Collection
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.8883671010641 Longitude: -78.9456939697266
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- Copyright Statement
- Public domain: Copyright has expired according to Canadian copyright law. No restrictions on use.
- Recommended Citation
- Awaiting the Royal Train, May 1939
Marjorie G. Ruddy
Whitby Archives
30-008-010 - Reproduction Notes
- Scanned from original negative.
- Contact
- Whitby Public LibraryEmail:archives@whitbylibrary.ca
Website:
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