Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King's funeral train pulling away from Union Station, Ottawa, July 1950. Newsmen, military personnel and official dignitaries stand on the platform watching it leave.

Typed inscription on back reads "W. L. Mackenzie King, after awarded the Order of the Grand Cross of the Netherland's Lion by His Royal Highness, Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, Laurier House, Ottawa, Ontario, March 1950." From left to right are Lester B. Pearson, Louis St. Laurent, Mackenzie King and Prince Bernhard.

William Lyon Mackenzie King, Harry Truman, and other U.S. and Canadian officials on front steps of the Parliament Buildings, 11 June, 1947.

Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King seated in the Privy Council Chamber with his cabinet, Parliament Buildings, Ottawa, 1947. Two small oval photos of different unidentified men were inserted into the photo, one in each of the bottom corners.

Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King seated in the Privy Council Chamber with his cabinet, Parliament Buildings, Ottawa, circa 1926 - 1930. Almost half the cabinet is standing.

Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King surrounded by a crowd while standing on the platform of the Prince Albert railway station, circa 1926. King is alone in the foreground. A CNR train and a Royal Canadian Mounted Police are visible in the background.

Close-up of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King seated at his desk [in his House of Commons office], May 1947.

Head and shoulders of William Latshaw, Western College of Veterinary Medicine.

Artist William Kurelek contemplates his work - a 32 by 36 foot mural on the inside front wall of the St. Thomas More Chapel.

Bio/Historical Note: William Kurelek, CM (1927-1977) was born in a shack near Whitford, Alberta, north of Edmonton. Kurelek spent most of his boyhood on the family farm in Manitoba. He hated the life and grew up with an increasing sense of alienation at home and at school, and decided in his last year at the University of Manitoba to devote his life to the one talent that brought admiration: his ability to draw. It was after reading Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man at university that Kurelek decided to find out if he, too, could become an artist. He tested himself in characteristic fashion, by creating a self-portrait that involved 16 hours of frantic, non-stop painting. As the work neared completion, Kurelek recalled years later, he realized 'the painting had taken over and was directing me. I was an artist. I knew I was an artist.' But Kurelek faced a tortured journey before anyone else accepted him as an artist. He travelled to Toronto in search of an art teacher but left the Ontario College of Art after only a few months and began hitchhiking to Mexico. The artist had been plagued as a young boy by a series of frightening visions and hallucinations, all dealing with pain, suffering, cruelty. While resting under a bridge in Arizona he underwent a vision of a different kind. It was a white-robed figure calling him to be a shepherd. That figure is the someone of Kurelek's autobiography, Someone With Me, published in 1974. Kurelek failed to find an art teacher in Mexico. He returned to Canada and worked as a lumberjack to earn the money for passage to England. But his sense of 'depersonalization, of non-existence' had grown intolerable and he turned himself over to the psychiatric hospital at Maudsley. It was here and in other hospitals that Kurelek finally found himself as a painter. Later, he credited electric shock treatment and his conversion to Catholicism for his reclamation. Kurelek died in Toronto in 1977; he was only 50 years old.

William Joseph Browne as vice-chairman, Canadian U.N. delegation.

As William Hamilton, Marc Drouin, and others look on, John Diefenbaker signs a guest book, City Hall, Montreal, 1958. Microphone beside John reads CKAC.

Three images of the funeral procession of William Hamilton, who died while working as a volunteer nurse in the temporary hospital the City had set up at Emmanuel College during the Spanish Influenza Pandemic.
Photos A, B, C: Procession on campus; Dean of Agriculture's Residence at left, Saskatchewan Hall at right.
Photos D and E show a funeral procession [held around the same time as William Hamilton's; perhaps in Eastern Canada].
Photo D: Pallbearers carry a casket down a residential street. Marchers, women and men, walk behind.
Photo E: Procession on a residential street; marchers walking away from camera. People standing at far right.

Bio/Historical Note: William George Hamilton, Pharmacy student and widower with three children, contracted the Spanish Flu and died after serving as a volunteer nurse. Hamilton died on 15 November 1918, age 39. Hamilton’s wife, Mabel Isabelle (Coxworth) Hamilton, died on 28 March 1917, age 21. They are buried at Fairmede Cemetery, Wawota, Saskatchewan.

Head and shoulders of William G. Sullivan, Professor and Head of Classics, 1919-1946.

Bio/Historical Note: William Godfrey Sullivan was born in 1879 in County Cork, Ireland. He graduated from Trinity College, Dublin, with two gold medals for academic excellence. After teaching in Ireland for five years, Sullivan joined the University of Saskatchewan as professor and head of the Department of Classics from 1911 to 1946. Sullivan also served more than once as chairman of the faculty and as acting dean of Arts and Science. He retired in 1946. Sullivan died in Victoria, British Columbia, in 1951.

image of [William Eliot Walker, Agriculture graduate in 1917].