Road Trip 1954

On July 31, 1954, freelance photographer Rosemary Gilliat and her girlfriends, Anna Brown, Audrey James and Helen Salkeld, packed up Helen’s Plymouth station wagon and began their 12,391-kilometre road trip across Canada. During the next 38 days, they crossed five provinces and four states, travelling through Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia, Washington, Montana, North Dakota and Minnesota, and returning to Ottawa on September 6.

Helen Salkeld, Audrey James, Anna Brown and Rosemary Gilliat (left to right) 

getting ready to leave Ottawa, Ontario for their Trans-Canada Highway trip, July 31, 1954

  

 Anna Brown, Helen Salkeld and Audrey James stopping at 

Deep River (Ottawa River), Ontario. July 31, 1954

  

Audrey James in a tent, possibly near Temagami, Ontario, July 31, 1954

 

Where do we go from here? Audrey James standing at a large road sign on 

the Trans-Canada Highway near Kirkland Lake, Ontario, August 1, 1954

 

Audrey James, Anna Brown and Helen Salkeld erecting 

tents, Moonbeam, Ontario, August 1, 1954

 

Anna Brown half asleep in a tent, Moonbeam, Ontario, August 1, 1954

 

Downtown street in Hearst, Ontario, August 2, 1954

 

Supper by deserted gold mine buildings, possibly 

near Geraldton, Ontario, August 2, 1954

 

Anna Brown cooking outdoors, possibly in the vicinity of 

Klotz Lake near Geraldton, Ontario, August 2, 1954

 

Anna Brown getting out of a lake in Northern Ontario, August 2, 1954

 

Anna Brown and Helen Salkeld on a lakeshore, Nipigon, Ontario, August 3, 1954

 

Supper beside English River, Ontario, August 3, 1954

 

 Anna Brown and Helen Salkeld erecting tents, 

English River, Ontario, August 3, 1954

  

Source: BiblioArchives/LibraryArchives Canada

Vintage Ontario

 These really look like they were taken for tourism promotion ads.

 Betty Jackson, 16, Sarnia, Ontario Yacht Club, 1949

  

Britton Danard pins apple blossoms in Betty Dixon’s hair in a 

Niagara Peninsula orchard near St. Catharines, Ontario, 1949

 

On the rocks along the shore of Lake Nipissing, Ontario, July 1950

 

St. Lawrence Islands National Park, Ontario, 1949

 

Tourist camp at Kincardine, Ontario, 1949

 

Source: Yesterday's Print

Reuben Sallows

Man pulling sled, 1917

  

Old man cooking outdoors, 1910

 

Two women in bathing costumes

 

Woman cross country skiing, 1910

 

Woman with snowshoes, 1909

 

Source: Huron County Museum

Harold McMurrich Rathbun

Group at Moira Camps, 1907

 

Group at Sandbanks, under trees, July 1908

 

Long Portage, 1-2/3 miles into Stillwater Lake, June 1909

 

Man on cart behind two horses belonging to the Burriss Lumber Company, 1907

 

Picnic at Thompson's Point. Betty telling Marjorie a joke, 1909

 

Source: Deseronto Archives

Vintage Ontario

 Act I - John Maxwell- "Not till I have a Kiss! 

my pretty one!" Julia- "Help! Help!", ca. 1892

 Canadian Light Infantry marching past Princess Patricia, ca. 1918

  Princess Patricia of Connaught was a granddaughter of Queen Victoria. She went to Canada in 1911 when her father was made Governor General, and it was there that her fame and popularity really soared.  She was known for her love of sports and her charity work, but it was an event at the start of World War I that really showed how much she had captured the public imagination.  As the conflict gathered pace, in August 1914, Captain Andrew Hamilton-Gaunt offered $100,000 to finance a new regiment as part of Canada’s overseas war effort, and asked Princess Patricia if she would lend the new troops her name.  She did and went on to design and make the first colours for the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry.  The regiment is well known now around the world.

   

 Mr. Fred H.A. Davis and Miss Anne Alexander, in his 

law office on Ramsay Street, Amherstburg, Ontario, ca. 1914

   

Nurses and doctors perform surgery at Amasa Wood 

Hospital, Elgin County, Ontario, ca. 1905

 

 Student teachers practice teaching kindergarten 

at the Toronto Normal School, ca. 1898

 

Source: Archives of Ontario

Reuben Sallows

 Haircut in snow, 1917

  

 Lumber jacks, 1917

  

 Making sugar, 1907

 

 Pouring sap, 1908

  

Unloading sap, 1907

 

Source: Huron County Museum

Harold McMurrich Rathbun

Aileen & Mr Freer at Duck Lodge, July 1909

  

 Group on Steamer Reindeer on way to Sand Banks, 

Prince Edward County, Ontario, ca. 1914

  

 The photographer's younger sister, Bunella 'Pansy' Jones, 

with her daughter, Barbara, taken in 1907

   

Two men and a canoe at the side of a lake, 1909

  

Two men manoeuvering a canoe down a set of rapids, 

possibly on the Lady Evelyn River, Ontario, 1909

 

Source: Deseronto Archives

Huron County

 Floe Sallows Saunders dancing

  

 Florence Sallows photographing daughter and dog

  

 Portrait of Flo Saunders

   

Portrait of Florence Sallows holding basketball

 

 Portrait of woman outdoors, 1908

 

Source: Huron County Museum

Vintage Deseronto

Deseronto is a town in Ontario, Canada, on the shore of Lake Ontario.

 At 12 O'Clock Park, ca. 1910

  

 Crew members of the Rapids King, June 1921

Crew members of the Rapids King, a steamship operated by the Richelieu and Ontario Navigation Company (Canada Steamship Lines after 1913). The middle decks of the ship are visible in the background. The photograph was taken by the photographic firm of Black and Bennett, 85 Bleury Street, Montreal. The Rapids King was built in Toronto in 1907 and was retired from service in 1931.

An article in the New York Times of 18 July 1921 describes the crew's rescue of passengers of this ship on the previous day, after its rudder chain was broken in the Long Sault Rapids en route from Prescott, Ontario, to Montreal, Quebec. It is possible that this picture was taken after this event. 

 Deseronto Hockey Team, 1911

  

 Group portrait of a "Citizens' Band", ca. 1900

  

 Metcalf Foods Ltd., Deseronto, ca. 1938

  

 Staff of Shannonville Canning Ltd., Shannonville, Ontario, in September 1938

  

Students and staff of Deseronto High School, 1927-1928

 

Source: Deseronto Archives