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| Photo Title: | Marie (Smart) Penny with two unidentified people standing on a wharf looking up at a boat |
| Image No.: | PF-312.1062 |
| Image Location: | Lake4/pf312_1062.jpeg |
| Date of Creation: | [between 1965 and 1970] |
| Physical Description: | 1 photograph : col. ; 8 x 11.5 cm |
| Biography/Admin History: | Marie (Smart) Penny (1897-1970) married George J. Penny in 1927. They has a daughter, Margaret, who later married Spencer Lake. After her husband's death in 1949, Marie took charge of the family business, John Penny and Sons, which had by then been converted to a frozen fish enterprise. In 1967 Mrs. Penny was elected president of the 400-member Fisheries Council of Canada, the first woman to hold the position. Marie Penny died in 1970. |
| Collector: | Harold L. Lake |
| Source Donor: | Donated by Mrs. Robin Lake, 15 December 1994 |
| Collection Title: | Harold L. Lake Photograph Collection |
| Associated Material: | Harold L. Lake fonds |
| Restrictions on Access: | Copyright held by the Maritime History Archive. No image from the fonds may be reproduced for research or publication without permission from the archivist. |
| Copyright: | c-mha |
| Physical Condition: | Fair |
| Notes: | Title based on contents of image. |
| Subjects: | Penny, Marie (Smart), 1897-1970 / Wharves. |
