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Stories and More from the People of Kingston and Frontenac County

Her beautiful fancy dress with the hand-tatted lace never got put on her; her mother was so mad!

Interview with Margi McKay

August 30, 2012

Margi McKay shows Jo Stanbridge a 1921 studio photo of her mother Ruth Marion White, aged 2, and describes how it came to be taken and why it wasn't the photo it was meant to be. 

Ruth's great-uncle Sir William Hearst has the dubious distinction of having been the Ontario premier who brought in Prohibition.

Margi McKay shows Jo Stanbridge a 1921 studio photo of her mother Ruth Marion White, aged 2

Listen to Margi McKay talk about her mother and the White and Hearst families.