| Summary: | Lieutenant-Colonel T. Ashmore Kidd, M.P.P., Grandmaster and Sovereign of the Grand Orange Lodge of North America, and Mrs. Kidd, arrived in Newfoundland at St. John's on October 1, 1931. They visited Conception Bay on October 2, Grand Falls on the 14th and Corner Brook the following day. Therefore it is likely that this photo was taken at Bonavista between October 3rd and the 13th, 1931. Dr. C.A. Forbes is marked by the X, and it appears that Col. Kidd is standing to his immediate right. Mrs. Kidd may be to the right of Col. Kidd. The note on the back of the post card reads, ''These are all people I know but the one with X on it is Daddy. He is much shorter now though. This is the Orange Hall and its members who greeted Col. & Mrs. Kid [sic] when here three years ago.'' The Forbes Family Photograph Collection contains 449 family photos of Dr. Robert E. Forbes and his son, Dr. C.A. Forbes, both physicians who collectively served Bonavista and nearby communities for over 80 years from ca. 1874 to 1955. Most of the photos are in albums, although they have been digitized as separate items, and are predominantly from the 20th Century. Many of the photos from the 1940s-50s are of two of Dr. C.A. Forbes' daughters, Vivian (Forbes) Osterhaut and Kathleen (Forbes) Deir, as well as Kathleen's husband Jack Deir who served in the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps during World War II. A small number of images appear to date from the late 19th Century and include coverage of the family of Irene Matthews, wife of Dr. C.A. Forbes.
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