Another candid shot from our historic photo collection. The photographer is standing on the lawn to the west of the FJ Hart building (now our museum) which originally sat on the southwest corner of Fraser & 272nd. The buildings in the background are part of the Smith & Parr General Merchants store.
We aren't 100% certain yet, but the little girl could be Iona Smith, and the man could be her father, Charles Byron Smith, owner of the store. The sign we see on the side of the building would have been advertising FJ Hart's real estate and insurance business. If the little girl is indeed Iona, then this photo could have been taken around 1912 or 1913, as she was born in 1910. The building was sold to the BC Telephone Company at the close of 1916 and FJ Hart constructed the building in 1910.
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