Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Catalog Number |
A2023.000.010.046 |
Object Name |
Photograph |
Tagline |
Black and white photograph of a group of children including the three McDonald children, circa 1917-1919. |
Collection |
MS 36 - McDonald Family Collection |
Description |
Black and white photograph of a group of seven children at a party, including the McDonald children. The group consists of five girls and two boys arranged in a line from shortest to tallest. The girls are all wearing white dresses, white socks, and all but one girl is wearing black shoes. All the girls barring one is also wearing a white bow in their hair. The boys are wearing shorts (one in white, one in black), white shirts, ties, striped socks, and shoes (one white, on black). The group is standing in front several large bushes and are on short grass. It was a sunny day noted by several of the children squinting and their faces being washed out. John David McDonald is third from the left, while Helen Christian McDonald is second from the right and Pauline Dingwall McDonald is the right most child. |
Date |
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Medium |
Photograph |
Provenance |
The McDonald family came to Rossland in 1898, when John Dingwall McDonald (born 1874, Woodstock, Ontario) came to Rossland to work for the West Kootenay Power & Light Company. John Dingwall worked as the Superintendent for the company in Rossland. He married Ethel Bell Elder and the young family lived in the WKPL company residence. The couple had three children – Pauline Dingwall (1907), Helen Christian (1909), and John David (1915). John Dingwall worked for the WKPL until he retired in 1942, ultimately passing away two short years later on October 7, 1944. Ethel passed away on May 22, 1948. Pauline married George Wilson in 1938 and passed away in 1956, while Helen passed away in 1929. John David, known as Jack or JD, graduated with an engineering degree from UBC in 1941 and married Donna Berva McLeod on September 7, 1942. After his graduation, he worked for WKPL until he enlisted in the Canadian Navy in December 1942. Jack returned to Rossland in 1945 and worked at Cominco until his retirement in May 1980. Jack was active in the Rossland community, but was especially influential in the development of the Rossland Museum, a Canadian Centennial Project in 1967. He continued to be involved with the Museum, serving as president of the board until his death in 2003. |
People |
McDonald, Pauline Dingwall McDonald, Helen Christian McDonald, John David |
Subjects |
Photograph Black and White Photography Siblings Group Photograph |