00-0126

Melvin C. Boese

1910 - 1962 ~ 4 cm of textual records; 7 b&w photographs (copies) 13 cm x 9 cm                          and 1 colour photograph 10cm x 15 cm

Mr. Melvin Boese was born in Fitzroy Harbour in 1918.  He worked for Gillies Brothers and AF Campbell and Sons of Arnprior after serving in the Canadian Army.   When he returned from living in Waterloo in 1966, he and his wife Estella Steinke bought land on the 11th concession of McNab ( formerly Sam McComb farm ).  He took photographs of the Madawaska River and the Arnprior Grist Mill with his Brownie camera which was free from Kodak to all eleven year olds with birthdays in July 1929.  The collection also consists of three Arnprior Chronicle newspapers: July 29, 1919; January16, 1925; July 8 - 14, 1962.