photographs

Black and white photo of Mrs Brown and Betty sitting and Alex standing behind them.

Photo of Ian McColl as a boy in plaid overalls and a white longsleeved shirt. Ian is holding a ball in his hands. Ian grew up to be a police officer in Vancouver. He had one child, Shelly. The collection also contains a photo of him as a baby.

Handcut cropped black and white photo of Ian McColl as a baby. Ian lived in Vancouver, B.C. (c. 1979). The collection also contains a photo of him as a child.

A black and white family photo of Elizabeth Moorhouse (Hood), Margaret Moffatt (Hood), Gertrude Hood (Woolf), and James Hood.

Black and white photo of an elementary school class. Elizabeth Moorhouse is in the third row with the ribbon in her hair.

Undated, sepia photo of Elizabeth Moorhouse as a young woman.

Black and white photo of (from left to right) Edna Greene, Min Greene (nee Balkind), and Rosa Cohen Balkind are standing with interlocked arms. Edna is holding her daughter Andrea Mair (nee Greene) as a baby in her right arm. The Balkind's changed their name from Balcon at some point in the early 20th century.

Sepia photo of Elizabeth (Betsy) Woolf (née Balcon) printed on a postcard. She is wearing a black dress and leaning on a chest height table/pillar. The photo was probably taken in Glasgow as her family lived their c. 1900-1920 with the Balarskys and Balcons.

A black and white photo of Evelyn Balarsky as a young girl. She is dressed in a white dress and socks and black shoes and is sitting on a table. Evelyn Balarsky was the daughter of Josheph and Sarah Balarsky. She died at age 11 of diptheria in Scotland.

An undated, sepia-toned portrait of a young Sarah Balarsky (née Woolf).

Sol Woolf (Steve Wilson), his sister Rosa McColl (née Woolf), and another man (perhaps John McColl, Rosa’s husband) pose arm in arm for a photo outside a house.

A photo of Sol Woolf (a.k.a. Steve Wilson) posing against a rock formation on a beachfront.

A portrait of Queenie Woolf, Sam Woolf’s wife and Gertrude’s sister-in-law. The note written on top of the photo seems to indicate it was sent to either her mother-in-law, Elizabeth Woolf (Balcon). or her niece, Elizabeth Hood (Woolf).

This is a photo of James Hood with his sister, Margaret Moffatt (née Hood), standing in a garden. In the foreground is a flowering bush. James and Margaret are in the middleground. There appears to be a front or back gate in the background.

James Hood (bottom right, seated) poses for a picture with five other members of the Canadian Legion.

A middle-aged Gertrude Hood and her husband, James Hood, both smile at the camera as they walk down a sidewalk.

Another small oval-shaped photo of an adult Gertrude (Woolf) Hood standing next to a garden.

This small print, also fit for a locket, shows Gertrude Woolf (later Hood) as a young adult.

These two locket-sized photos, which are pasted together, show Gertrude Woolf (later Hood) in what appear to be her early teenage years.

Abraham Woolf, Elizabeth (Betsy) Woolf (née Balcon/Balkind), and six of their seven children pose for a portrait dated to 1898.

A photo of Susan Errington (Tolway) as a small child. The date on the back of the photo places her age anywhere from approximately 13 months to 2 years.

A colour photo of an elderly Gertrude Hood offering a leaf to a cat.