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Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition => Topic started by: Pinjarra1929 on Saturday 05 April 25 02:40 BST (UK)
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please can anyone tell me anything about this photo frim November 1929. we are helping the girl who was 17 then. We need to know was it Canadas Toronto railway station and who he is. we understand he probably accompanied her to Barnardo's conference at Hamilton. mayb he was a Minister? did that station go to Hamilton in 1929? thankyou.
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So the girl was born 1912 and is still alive ???
It’s hard to decipher much from the photo but he could simply be a railway employee.
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History of Union Station Toronto here- the 3rd Union Station opened in 1927-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Station_(Toronto)
As far as I know there are several stations in Hamilton but you'd need to research when they opned to see if any are a possiblity.
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thank you. Yes maybe is railway employee. it seems a good warm working smart coat. I've not been to Canada maybe everyone wore similar type I don't know. think is very cold sometimes.
Thankyou for link.
Actually Mary maud botten died but her niece who is 91 ish wants to know as they lived together. Mary did not marry. In August 1929 exactly 00 months after the trip she was pregnant and Barnardos shipped her to Scotland with girl guides to have baby boy then shipped her back to be a maid in Toronto. The boy died last year. He knocked on her employer door some time as adult but she terrified lose job so denied being his mum. he had 2 kids. my friend is helping the son apply Barnardos records. denied to the niece as told not next of kin. my friend thinks grandson will need supply dna evidence. I wonder we would like to know what happened in Scotland as she described it as very bad. ps she kept a few photos only. one is a big long grandson institutional building with a supposed shaped tree looks like a phallus. we want to know where this austere looks place is presumably in Scotland. she was birn in Kent. when I locate posted photo will put here.