I shared this photo in a post about music back in October 2019. I had found it in our archives (a fancy name for the unlabeled boxes of papers and photos that had been lugged back to the church when the Mission closed earlier that year). The picture was identified as “Men’s Club Choir, 1954” but the individuals’ names were not given. At the time I obtained a few names by posting the photo on the Crawford Park Kids Facebook page, and I shared what I learned with you.
Then last spring, a member of the Crawford Park Kids group, Andrew Smith, posted a copy of the same photo that he had found while engaging in a popular lockdown activity: going through stuff in one’s closets. His copy had all the names! My favorite discovery is that the sweet-faced young man kneeling at left is Harold Grace, who appears approximately a quarter century later in another post on this blog.
There’s a good chance Len Storey was the photographer.
Back row: Rev. A.E. Jones, Bill Metherell, Eric Humphrey, Arnold MacInnis, Marvin Smith, Randy West, Herb Fleet, Murray Beesley, Jim Hutchinson.
Front row: Harold Grace, George Gray, Bill Morgan, Alan Boyle, Bill Bryce.