“Service on the Skeena: Horace Wrinch, Frontier Physician” will be published by Ronsdale Press in the Fall of 2019.
Mary Wrinch the artist
Mary E. Wrinch the artist (1877-1969) was Horace Wrinch's sister. She was exhibiting with the Ontario Society of Artists as early as 1894 and with the Royal Canadian Academy of Art in 1895. She was elected as the first female executive of the Ontario Society of Artists in 1913. She became an Associate of the Royal Canadian Academy in 1918. She was prominent in the Ontario Art community for many years, marrying the artist and teacher George Reid in 1922.
The photograph below was taken in 1892, at the start of her career.
Mystery Photo
Horace Wrinch is standing second from the left. But when was the photograph taken, and who else is in it? In view of the patriotic sentiments, it could well have been taken on Dominion Day, July 1, some time before Queen Victoria died on January 22, 1901. Note the maple leafs on their jackets. Was it at Albert College, Belleville, Ontario? Or Trinity Medical College in Toronto? And why are there no women present? Was it, perhaps, a gathering of missionaries before leaving for their missions? Could the man on the far left be the Rev.J.C.Spencer?
