Profile Photographs, General Interest - Abigail Becker
https://heritagecollections.elgin.ca/link/archives138300
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- St. Thomas Times-Journal fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- graphic material
- Date Range
- 1954
- Accession Number
- 2008-01
- Storage Location
- R8 S4 Sh6 B1 84
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- St. Thomas Times-Journal fonds
- Creator
- St. Thomas Times-Journal
- Description Level
- Item
- Accession Number
- 2008-01
- Storage Room
- Archives Storage Rm. 110
- Storage Location
- R8 S4 Sh6 B1 84
- GMD
- graphic material
- Date Range
- 1954
- Scope and Content
- Clipping, Simcoe Reformer, November 24, 1954, describing the story of heroine Abigail Becker, who swam out to save sailors on a cap-sized boat around Long Point, Lake Erie. She was awarded a gold medal from the Life of Savings Benevolent Association of New York for her bravery (R8_S4_Sh6_B1_84.pdf)
- Name Access
- St. Thomas (Ont.)
- St. Thomas Times-Journal
- Subject Access
- Newspapers