Ev’s studio at 21 Gloucester Street
Toronto. Everett Roseborough became our journal editor back in 1987 and continued the task through 1997 when Bob Lansdale took over. Ev passed away at 98 in London, Ontario. Ev was a commercial photographer for many years and had studios at various locations in this city. His last studio was known as Everett Roseborough Limited and ERA Communications (ERA). Ev’s business was here when he passed the PHSC editorial duties over to our late editor, Bob Lansdale.
In Photographic Canadiana, issue 37-1, Stan White wrote a nice article summing up Ev’s contributions to photography. Stan had worked as a fellow photographer in Ev’s studio and later taught at Sheridan College before retiring.
Stan and I swapped emails recently and Stan included both his 37-1 manuscript and a few photos of Ev’s earlier studios. Of interest to me was Ev’s studio in the Yorkville area at 21 Gloucester street just east of Young. The studio became a restaurant called ‘Bumpkins’ which I attended a few time for lunch when I was working at Bloor and Yonge. Here you can click on an image and see 21 Gloucester as the studio at left and later as Bumpkins at right. When I ate there I was a member of the society but completely unaware that it was once a photographic studio.
