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May
Day - 1870-1900
#2728
Date:
c. 1887
Source: Isabel Macmillan Latta, donor
Photographer: S.J. Thompson, photographer, Columbia Street
Information: The May Queen and her court. Girl at top left
is Adelaide Ewen born in 1877. She was the daughter of Alexander
and Mary Rogers Ewen. Isabel Macmillan Latta, the donor of the
photo, was the daughter of Isabella Ewen whose sister is in this
photo. Alex and Mary Ewen had three daughters: Adelaide, Isabella
and Alexandria. According to the donor of the photo, Ewen's old
cannery was at the site of the C.P.R. Station at Columbia Street.
As the city expanded there were objections to the smell of the
salmon cannery. Ewen moved his operations to Lion Island. In exchange
for building a road to his cannery, he was given substantial land
holdings in Queensborough.
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May
Day - 1901-1930
#2428
Date:
1901
Source: Mr. D.W. McPhee, donor
Photographer:
Information:
May Queen, Aldyen Irene Hendry, later Mrs. Eric Hamber. She was
May Queen in 1901, at the age of 16. Before her death on October
3, 1988, she was thought to be the oldest living New Westminster
May Queen. She married Eric Werge Hamber in London on May 14,
1912. In 1936 Eric Hamber became the Lieutenant Governor of British
Columbia and later became the Chancellor of the University of
British Columbia. Aldyen attended St. Ann's Academy (New Westminster),
Annie Wright's Seminary in Oregon and finished school in Germany.
In her twenties, while on vacation in England, she was presented
at court. Her father was John Hendry, a pioneer British Columbian
and owner of the Hastings Saw Mill in Vancouver. In 1937 the Hambers
represented British Columbia at the coronation of King George
VI in London. The Hambers' were the only Canadians that were private
guests when Queen Elizabeth married in 1947.
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May
Day - 1901-1930
#3010
Date:
1908
Source: White Rock Museum
Photographer:
Information:
May Queen suite of 1908. This was the 1st year that J.J. Cambridge,
a yearly participant in May Day, became Master of Ceremonies.
He is the man seated in the middle and the person who succeeded
the later J.T. Scott in becoming M.C.. The person in top row second
from right was Belle Hood whose full name was Marion Rosabelle
Hood. Belle was Maid of Honor in the 1907 May Day Suite. The original
donor of the photo was Marion Wilson, niece of Belle Hood and
the daughter of Lily, Belle's sister. Lily Hood married Hugh Wilson.
According to the "Columbian" newspaper, May 1, 1908, p.1, the
suite included Her Royal Majesty Queen - elect, Kathleen Dashwood-Jones,
with her maids of honor - Misses Naomi Rolph and Ruby Fletcher.
Her majesty Queen Anne Tidy (bottom row, far right), who was 1907
queen, with her maids of honor Misses Dorothy Reichenbach and
Belle Hood. The Queen-elect, Kathleen Dashwood-Jones, is in the
bottom row, at far left.
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May
Day - 1901-1930
#1728
Date:
May 3, 1929
Source: Phil Smith, donor
Photographer:
Information:
Portrait of Miss. Phyllis Burr, who was the Maid of Honor May
Day 1928. This photograph was taken when she was part of the 1929
May Day court. Phyllis Burr was the daughter of Mrs. P.R. Burr
at 739 - 8th Street. She was a pupil at Lister-Kelvin School.
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