The Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada Regimental Museum and Archives has made available to the public thousands of photos, mostly old ones, on its Flickr account. It’s worth taking a look at this collection if only to wish your ancestors’ regiments were as well represented in online photos.
The Queen’s Own Rifles, based in Toronto, is Canada’s longest continuously serving infantry regiment, standing on guard since 1860.
The photos on Flickr are organized in albums, from Ridgeway 1866 and South Africa to Sergeant’s Mess and Uniforms. There are also two albums that contain newspaper clippings about the Fenian Raids in the 1860s and three others that hold attestation papers from the 1930s.
There is no need to set up a Flickr account to look at the photos and newspaper clippings.
