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Shearer Family fonds

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Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
1911
Collection/Fonds
Shearer Family fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Physical Description
1 photograph (jpeg)
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of one photograph of Jim Shearer, his wife Katherine (Dormer), and their daughter, Katie, posed in front of the temporary shelter erected at 5573 Buckingham Avenue during the construction of their home on that site, which was commissioned by Katherine's father, Francis Joseph Dormer.…
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
1911
Collection/Fonds
Shearer Family fonds
Physical Description
1 photograph (jpeg)
Description Level
Fonds
Accession Number
2012-05
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of one photograph of Jim Shearer, his wife Katherine (Dormer), and their daughter, Katie, posed in front of the temporary shelter erected at 5573 Buckingham Avenue during the construction of their home on that site, which was commissioned by Katherine's father, Francis Joseph Dormer. The image was taken shortly before their son James Francis was born.
History
James Dykes (Jim) Shearer, his wife Katherine (Dormer), and their daughter, Katie, immigrated to Canada in 1910. Their son, James Francis Shearer, was born on April 11, 1913, and died Aril 24, 1997, in London, England. Their house at 5573 Buckingham Avenue was commissioned by Katherine's father, Francis Joseph Dormer, who published newspapers in South Africa. The couple later divorced and returned to the U.K. around the end of the decade.
Media Type
Photograph
Notes
Photo catalogue 530
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