Collection SCA283-GA318 - Percy S. Keeting photograph album.

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Percy S. Keeting photograph album.

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    SCA283-GA318

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    • 1897-1922 (Creation)

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    120 photographs : b&w

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    Name of creator

    (1914-1963)

    Biographical history

    Percy Stewart Keeting was an English born salesman. The only son of Percy Stewart Keeting and Florence Mary Vickers (ca. 1880-1930), he had an older sister named Florence Mary "Billie" (1907-1928).

    Keeting immigrated to Canada in 1930 and worked as a bookkeeper at a lumber company in Bancroft, Ontario. He married Reta Schickler (1915-2003) of Lindsay, Ontario in 1932. He died from injuries sustained in a car collision in 1963. At the time of his death Keeting was a sales representative with Orenstein Paper Products Ltd. in Toronto.

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    One photograph album owned by Percy S. Keeting (1918-1963) with 120 photographs of daily life in Britain including trips to Isle of Man, Scotland, and Wales.

    The inclusion of photos pre-dating Keeting's birth in 1914 and his parents marriage in 1906, suggests the album may have been made by Keeting's mother, Florence Mary (nee Vickers), or an aunt. Annotations appear in two hands. The first is that of the creator, and the second is possibly that of Keeting's sister Florence Mary "Billie" or a cousin who seemingly left "daft" comments next to photos in which they appear.

    Annotations included by the creator of the album appear throughout identifying locations and dates. Names appear only occasionally and include Norman [Keeting?]; Adeline, Dorothy/Dot, [Billie] or [Pollie], Stewart [Keeting], Kathleen, and Annie.

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    Some page mounts ripped and photos missing.

    Immediate source of acquisition

    Found in the walls of the Ali Baba Steak House in Waterloo during renovations. Originally given to Owen Lackenbauer at the Waterloo Region Record.

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        Scanned as TIF files August 2025.

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        Percy Steward Keeting's (1878-1918) sister Annie Adeline (1875-1953) married John Woolley Symington, and together they had three daughters: Kathleen, Dorothy, and Dora. It is likely the Symingtons are some of the adults and children present in the photographs.

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