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Albert Edward was my great grandfather and worked as a locomotive fireman in London. Some time in the early 1900s he went to the Yukon in search of gold (or so the family lore has it).
He never returned.
Now a photograph of him has surfaced, dressed in an imposing uniform resembling that of a cossack - tall brimless hat with a metal badge on the front, long, calf length coat with badhes on the collar and seven silver(?) buttons, puttees and leather boots. He carries a baton in his left hand.
The name of the studio is shown on the cardboard mount: WD McVey, 314 Queen Street W., Toronto.
More family lore has also appeared: that he died in a train crash in Canada.
Can anyone suggest a way of establishing when or where he died, and what the uniform represented?
This has been a puzzle for years.
John
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