“Family
faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people
who belong to us; we see the past, present,
and future.”
Gail Lumet Buckley
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Some of
My Family
My wife, Sylvia, and I, on my 70th birthday, 2012
Having my first beer, a month after my open heart surgery
on June 15
Mom
and Dad, Albert (Ab) Henry and Phyllis (Phyl) Yelland in
Hawaii, 1988
Grandfather, Albert Stanley, Grandmother, Edith Dorothy
Yelland, and family, in front of their home in
Peterborough, Ontario, 1919
Great Grandmother, Alice Jane
Boreham/Gill/Kempton/Montgomery and Grandmother, Edith
Gill/Kempton/Yelland, c.1910
Great
Grandparents, Joseph Henry and Sarah Ann Yelland, c.1944
Toronto
Daily Star, Friday, November 17, 1950
Great
Grandfather, Joseph Yelland with the Peterborough Fire
Brigade, 1885
Chief Thomas Rutherford is in the centre (dark hat). Joseph
Yelland is in the bottom row, second from left.
Great
Great Grandfather, William Yelland, the thirteenth mayor
of Peterborough, Ontario, 1896-97
Received
from the Trent Valley Museum and Archives.
William Yelland with Eva May Yelland, his grand-daughter
(daughter of William George Yelland), with her husband,
Edward Benjamin Colborne, and their daughter, Marion
Margaret Colborne, born 26 Apr 1909.
Received from the Peterborough Museum and Archives, from
the Roy Studio Photographs Collection, dated 1910.
Some Pictures
Concerning the Yelland Family
Yelland Monument, Little Lake Cemetery, Peterborough,
Ontario
An
Ad for William Yelland's business, from the Ontario
Almanac for Peterborough County, Smith Township, 1873
Peterborough, Ontario, Murray Street, looking east from
George Street, c.1875.
This interesting view from the corner of George and Murray
shows St. Paul’s and Central School as they looked in the
early 1870s.
The large family of William Yelland (1832-1920), the
successful carriage maker and later mayor (1896-97),
provides the nucleus for the group portrait.
William
Yelland operated a combination carriage making and
blacksmith business at this location, 462 George Street,
for 40 years from the 1850s to the 1890s. - from the
Martha Kidd Collection on Peterborough Buildings, Trent
Valley Archives.
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