Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1870s-1890s (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
4 photographs
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Durwood Alexander Weese was born in Shannonville, Ontario, on 6 August 1864. He worked as a photographer in Belleville in the 1890s. He died in Hamilton, Ontario, on 11 February 1936.
Name of creator
Biographical history
Henry Kirkhope Smith was a photographer active in Belleville, Ontario in the 1890s. He was born in Ayrshire, Scotland in 1848 and moved to Canada in 1855. He died in Toronto in 1920.
Name of creator
Biographical history
David Wallace was a photographer who was active in Belleville in the 1870s. He was born in Scotland in 1833 and may have died in Ottawa in 1927.
Archival history
The photographs had formerly been in the possession of William Joseph McGurn (1877-1953) and Rose Victoria (Simpson) McGurn (1866-1968) of Oil City, Pennsylvania.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Donated by the McGurn/Carone family in August 2023.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Photographs taken by Belleville, Ontario, photographers.