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Social Life and Customs

#2394

Date: 1893
Source: Lucy Chambers, donor
Photographer:

Information: The wedding party of Laura Martin Fraser. Laura Martin Fraser was born in 1873 and died in 1958. Her first husband was Henderson Fiennes-Clinton who became ill on their honeymoon. His illness became T.B. and Laura became a widow at the age of 23. She married S.J. Chisholm Fraser in 1903. That wedding is pictured here. The bride and groom were the parents of the original donor of the photograph, Frances Fraser. In a letter dated April 7, 1986, Frances Fraser commented on the photograph. She surmised that it must have been taken on the front steps of the church recalling that there were wooden steps up the porch of the Catholic Church. She said although it would be odd for her mother's greyhound dog to be at the church, the house was fairly close by, so the dog could have followed the wedding party over there - Miss Fraser identified the group as follows. Front row - right to left: The groom - J.S. Chisholm Fraser, the bride - Laura Martng Fraser, here bridesmaid Margie Homer, the donor's grandmother Mary F. Molineux, Mrs. Dickenson. The little boy leaning against the post is Bob Dickenson, to his right is Aunt Fan Doyle. The man at back seen between the two grannies is Henry Doyle.

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Social Life and Customs

#1886

Date: June 29, 1915
Source: Joe Plaskett, donor
Photographer:

Information: This is one of a three-part series of photographs of a wedding. On the back of one of the original photographs was written, "Part of the crowd coming out of St. Mary's Church at our wedding June 29th/15." It is possibly of Rev. Canon Frank Plaskett's wedding. He was the donor's father and rector of St. Mary's Church, Sapperton, from 1912-1944.

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Social Life and Customs

#2380

Date: c. 1916
Source: Mary Bovee, donor
Photographer:

Information: The wedding party of Frank and Lil Thornton Front row: Left to right - Ed Stride, Lil and Frank Thornton (seated) and Charlie Stride who was a well-known photographer in New Westminster and the brother of Ed. 2nd row: Woman holding a baby at far left is Mrs. Webb with baby Winnnie. Winnie later became Mrs. Warfield. Man at far right (behind Charlie Stride) was John Mowatt who was the superintendent of the British Columbia Electric Railway (B.C.E.R.) 3rd row: The second man from left was Shorty Thompson who worked for the B.C.E.R. The woman to his right was the donor's mother (nee Katie Campbell), Katie Smith. Man to the right of Katie is Clarence Webb. Top row: Man at the far right is Alec Wallace who worked for the B.C.E.R. and later for U.I.C.

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