Accidents, 1950s - Margaret Leckie, Gordon Virtue Leckie, Barbara Leckie, Stanley Reginald Haney and John D. Couse
https://heritagecollections.elgin.ca/link/archives24516
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- St. Thomas Times-Journal fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- graphic material
- Date Range
- 1957
- Accession Number
- 2008-01
- Storage Location
- C8 Sh5 B1 F15 6
- 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. 105
- Storage Location
- C8 Sh5 B1 F15 6
- GMD
- graphic material
- Date Range
- 1957
- Physical Description
- 8 photographs : b&w ; 10 x 20 cm or smaller
- Scope and Content
- Eight black and white photographs used in St. Thomas Times-Journal article published June 3, 1957 concerning the death by drowning of Margaret Leckie, 40, 32 Wilson Avenue, St. Thomas, her husband Gordon Virtue (Slim) Leckie, 42, and daughter Barbara Leckie, 16, Stanley Reginald Haney, 25, 24 Oak Street, St. Thomas, and John D. Couse, 36, 9 Burrows Avenue, St. Thomas when their boat capsized in Lake Erie off Port Stanley, Ontario. Published with captions: "Barbara Leckie" (C8 Sh5 B1 F15 6a); "Mrs. Margaret Leckie" (C8 Sh5 B1 F15 6b); Stan Haney sits on doorstep of Oak Street home with his mother" (C8 Sh5 B1 F15 6c); "Orphaned By Tragedy - Three surviving sisters in Leckie family are Jean 11, Margaret 18, and Patricia 14" (C8 Sh5 B1 F15 6d); "Were Great Friends - Missing Barbara Leckie, centre, is here seen with two of her best friends, Joanne MacDonnell, 24 Wilson Avenue, and Helen Findlay, 19 West Avenue" (C8 Sh5 B1 F15 6e); "Crowd Awaits News - "A portion of the crowd outside the Port Stanley Town Hall Sunday afternoon as people awaited news on the lake tragedy" (C8 Sh5 B1 F15 6f); "Readied For Trip to London - Fifteen-foot Lake Craft which turned turtle on Lake Erie off Port Stanley late Saturday night or early Sunday, causing one known death and probably four others, is seen loaded on trailer at Port Stanley Sunday afternoon before being towed to London. Woman standing at car is believed to be Mrs. Harbourne Lamble, who drove it to London (C8 Sh5 B1 F15 6g); "Comfort For Parents - Friends and relatives comfort Mr. and Mrs. Roy Haney outside the Port Stanley Town Hall just after they had received word that their son was missing. Mrs. Haney was later helped from the car and driven home by another son" (C8 Sh5 B1 F15 6h).
- Subject Access
- Newspapers
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