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#2726
Date:
c.1894
Source: Isabel Macmillan Latta, donor
Photographer:
Information:
The Ewen family posed at intervals on the grounds of their 3rd
home.
From
left to right:
Daughter - Isabella May Ewen (seated by stone pillar),
Daughter - Alexandria (married __ Gilbert)
Daughter - Adelaide (married John B. Jardine), (seated between
two stone pillars)
Mother - Mary Rogers Ewen (seated in chair next to porch)
Father - Alexander Ewen (seated on porch railing)
The
house was on the site of the Russell Hotel at 740 Carnarvon (at
Begbie). For other photographs of this house see photos no. 2719,
2720. The Ewen's 2nd house was also in this location and was added
on and embellished to create their 3rd house. See photo no. 2718.
For a view of their first house see photo no. 2710. Alexander
Ewen was born in 1832. He had a cannery on Columbia Street at
the site of the C.P.R. station. As the city expanded there were
objections to the smell of the salmon cannery. Ewen moved his
operations to Lion Island. In exchange for building a road to
his cannery (Ewen Avenue), he was given substantial land holdings
in Queensborough. The donor of this photograph - Isabel Macmillan
Latta - is the daughter of Isabella Ewen Macmillan, one of Alexander's
three daughters. The house in this photo was burned in the fire
of 1898.
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