Mary Riter Hamilton collection [graphic material]

Acquired from Mary Riter Hamilton, Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1926 and from Mrs. Stanley Smith, Ottawa, Ontario in 1983. Acquired at auction in 2017., For many years Mary Riter Hamilton's birth year was thought to be 1873. An examination of the 1871 Canada Census, however, reveals that she is listed as a three-year old. Analysis of the 1881 Census and the 1891 Census, as well as Mary Riter Hamilton's marriage record, further confirms that she was born in September of 1867. In April of 1871 when the census was taken, Mary would have been 3; in April of 1881, she would have been 13; in April of 1891, she would have been 23. When Mary married in July of 1889, she would have been 21. Mary Riter Hamilton died on April 5, 1954, at the age of 86. Her death certificate lists her birth date as September 7, 1869, but the evidence from other records suggests that this date was incorrect.

Many of the images in accession 1988-180 (DAP) were exhibited in a 1923 exhibition in London, England entitled "Impressions of the battlefields after the Armistice". Several were also loaned for an exhibition at the Armando Museum in Holland, curated by Petra Halkes, in 2002-2003.

Refer also to Rudolph Martin Anderson and Mae Bell Allstrand fonds, MIKAN descriptive record 106977.