Railroad Lantern

DateLate 19th Century

Dimensions34.3 × 12.1 × 18 cm (18 cm)

Credit LineGift of Ethel Stephens, London, Ontario, 1967

Object number1967.002.001

Label TextJohn Weyman Price and his wife, Elizabeth, immigrated to London from England in 1855. John used the lantern in his job as an engineer with the Great Western Railway, later the Grand Trunk Railway. Because of the Crimean War (1853-1856), immigration rates to Canada dropped in the mid-1850s. Great Britain needed men for its army and male and female industrial and agricultural workers to fuel the war effort.

NameLantern, Railroad