Camera Workers, 1858-1950

The British Columbia, Alaska and Yukon Photographic Directory, 1858-1950

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Gale, Miss Mina[1, 2]

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  • Name Gale, Mina 
    • VARIANT NAMES: Ross, Mina; Ross, Mrs. Murdoch Gordon. [3]
    Title Miss 
    Gender Female 
    Marriage 24 Nov 1892  Kamloops, BC Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    Where Active (Non-Specific Address) 1891-1893  Kamloops, BC Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Association Browne, John Lothian (Relationship: Predecessor) 
    Association Lang, William Russell (Relationship: Successor) 
    Person ID I544  Camera Workers | G, vol. 1, 1858-1900
    Last Modified 8 Jan 2017 

  • Notes 
    • STATUS: Commercial.
    • BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: According to the Kamloops Museum and Archives, she arrived from Orangeville, ON, in 1891 and set up shop in J.L. Browne's old studio. She married a Canadian Pacific Railway trainman, Murdoch Gordon Ross, in 1892 and closed her studio in May 1893 when she became pregnant. Her studio was purchased by W.R. Lang in 1893.

  • Sources 
    1. [S30] WIL92, (Victoria, B.C.: R.T. Williams, 1892).

    2. [S692] Correspondence, David Mattison.
      Letter, Kamloops Museum-Archives to Mattison, 3 Nov 1981

    3. [S670] BVIPA marriage registration.
      Registration no. 1892-09-138985 (microfilm no. B11383)

    4. [S670] BVIPA marriage registration.
      Registration no. 1892-09-138985 (microfilm no. B11383). Groom: Murdoch Gordon Ross. Bride:
      Minia [as indexed] Gale