The Family Album

Turning the pages of an old family album stirs memories, transports us back to a different time, captures our imaginations and leaves us wishing we knew more … click on any photo to enter my family album …

My Great Grandmother – she was listed in Harvard University’s “A Woman of the Century” published in 1893 – Alice Isabel Blanche Pentecost

I call this Girl in the Straw Hat – this is my mother – Margaret Marion Laird

This handsome man was sacrificed to World War II – he is my uncle, a pilot with the RAF – Kenneth Malcolm Laird

This is One of the Last of the Grand Old Ladies – my grandmother – a lady of strength and grace and class – Hilda Alexandra Mary Henderson

A philanthropist and entrepreneur, this is my great great grandfather – James Beatty Grafton

My parents – Sydney James Grafton and Margaret Marion Laird

My grandfather – Sydney Gordon Grafton

My great grandmother – Jean Gordon Douglass with my grandfather Sydney Gordon Grafton

My great grand aunt – Helen Douglass – this wedding gown is now in a museum in Dundas, Ontario.

This lovely lady was once dubbed the most beautiful girl in Dinan – my grandmother, Marion Blanche Bagley

The Weekly Photo Challenge is: Nostalgic