Aboriginal Portraits from the National Archives of Canada
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Author/Creator
National Archives of Canada
Description
Folder contains three pages of text and portraits.
Subject holding rifle, sitting on animal hide wearing traditional clothing. Shot in studio. From the book The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939 by Brock Silversides.
Historical note:
Olive Evangeline (Freeman, Palmer) Diefenbaker; b. 14 Apr. 1902; d. 23 Dec. 1976, 2nd wife of JGD.Historical note:
Robinson Lyndhurst Wadmore, who was born in England in 1855, entered the Canadian forces as a lieutenant in 1883 and served with the Royal Canadian Regiment during the Northwest Resistance of 1885. Wadmore became a colonel in 1910. He died in Victoria, BC, in 1915.Historical note:
Taken for the Western Producer magazine, July 21, 1960.