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Rev. William Proudfoot's Walking Stick

Rev. William Proudfoot's Walking Stick

DateBefore 1851
DimensionsOverall: 91.4 cm
Credit LineGift from the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, 1962
Object number1962.051.001
Label TextScottish immigrant Reverend William Proudfoot (1788-1851) owned this walking cane. A Presbyterian minister, Proudfoot pictured below, preached his first sermon in London in the temporary courthouse on November 11, 1832. That day, the building hosted ministers of two other denominations: Reverends James Jackson, a Methodist, and Benjamin Cronyn, an Anglican.
NameCane