Photographer Mr. Frank Cooper

Portrait of Anne McCormick Porte

Datec. 1900

Credit LineGift of Anne Porte, London, Ontario, 1990

Object number1990.019.003

Label TextAnne McCormick Porte and her family arrived in London in 1829 from County Down, Ireland. Between 1847 and 1854, hundreds of thousands more Irish arrived in British North America, some settling in London. They were fleeing the potato famine that devastated the country.

NamePhotograph, Cabinet