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Winter scene recreated from an historical summer photograph of the Briars.
Historical photograh of Miss Bessie Sibbald at the Briars Gate, circa 1910
Winter scene recreated from a historical summer photograph of the Jackson's Point Radial Station.
Newmarket Radial Station
circa 1912 "Winterized"
News Article
Miss Belcher's engagement ring.
Yonge Street Trolley circa 1912
"Winterized"
Histoical Society Article
Historical photograph of the original Trinity College before the building was moved to the university campus in 1925; and later rebuilt.
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Miss Bessie Sibbald
The Royal Ontario Museum, 1912;
historical image "winterized"
The pole's
top
"Harvesting" the Pole of Sagaween
The alternate Dagger of Ahmose in ROM
Mr. (later Dr.)
Charles Trick Currelly
Dagger of Ahmose in London Museum
Developed from the 1918 photo of
Amelia Earhart
as a nurse sister in Toronto
Amelia Earhart 1937
from Encyclopedia Britannica
in one of few photos showing her teeth!​
The Grange, circa 1885, "winterized"
Mr. Smith in his library, circa 1909​
Emily Carr's "Haida Totems - Queen Charlotte Island"
Cornelius Krieghoff's "Settler's Log House"
AGO.ca
The Great Hall as a gallery, The Grange
"Winterized" image of Casa Loma; source: casaloma.ca
Lady Pellatt
Lady Pellatt's Suite
Visit Casa Loma
Laura Secord Chapter
The Imperial Order of the Daugthers of the Empire
circa 1914
at The Briars
Clipped from The Evening Mail Halifax
"Winterized" image from a
Toronto Archives photo of
St. James Cathedral,
Toronto, Canada​
Sisters of Service active in Kingston, Ontario. Photo: Queen's University Review
Miss Agnes Macphail circa 1920
“I do not want to be the angel of any home: I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality. After that is secured, then men and women can take turns being angels.”
Sharon Temple
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