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Sunday 14 September 2014

Jack and Nick

Jack Chernoff and Nick Laktin
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Here’s a photograph in which the individuals are identified: Jack Chernoff and Nick Laktin. (I assume that Jack is on the left, while Nick stands on the right.) The handwriting is that of my father-in-law Bill, in whose collection I found this photo. Despite their names, my husband doesn’t know who they are or how they might be connected to his father’s or his mother’s family. (Since Bill wrote the names on the back of the photo, he must have known Jack and Nick.) The men pose in front of what appears to be a wood cabin, possibly at a camp or by a lake. I estimate that the photo was taken in the 1940s or 1950s, in Canada, likely in Saskatchewan or British Columbia.

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Copyright © 2014, Yvonne Demoskoff.

Sunday 7 September 2014

Men in Suits


Two Doukhobor men
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Two unidentified men pose for this postcard photo. They are unknown to my husband. The text on the back appears to be Cyrillic letters. It could be the handwriting of an adult, or could it be that of a child practising writing with a green crayon? Like the other photos on this blog, this postcard photograph was in my father-in-law's collection. These men dressed in suits are presumably Doukhobors, photographed in Canada in or after 1899.

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Copyright © 2014, Yvonne Demoskoff.