Huron-Perth Boomers Summer 2024

y Colleen Maguire
HISTORY
the brass radiator, all polished and shining, and the
black box on the back was a familiar site to Huron
County residents,” Boyle said.
Unfortunately, in 1916, Flora died. On Sept. 15,
1917, Reuben married Clara Alberta Bamford when
he was 60 years old, and she was 25. She had worked
with him at the studio as a receptionist, colorist,
retoucher, and in the darkroom. Reuben and Clara
honeymooned in Algonquin Park just two months
after the mysterious death of Canadian artist Tom
Thompson, on Canoe Lake.
On March 29, 1929, his youngest daughter, Nancy
Jean Sallows, was born. In 2016, I had the pleasure
of interviewing Nancy.
She reminisced, “My father was a very happy man.
He and my mother never quarrelled. He, of course,
took lots of photographs of me and the family. My
mother was interested in everything. She played the
piano, painted for pleasure and enjoyed needlework
and smocking. She worked in the studio with my
father, doing everything including darkroom printing,
and hand tinting, everything really.
internal injuries and died the next day, 14 hours after
the accident.
The July 28, 1937, edition of the Signal gives thorough
details of his professional, civic, and private life. The
funeral service was conducted at the Sallows home
on Church Street by Rev. D.J. Lane and a list of
the pallbearers reads like a who’s-who of Goderich,
including P.J. McEwan, son of the famous salt man,
Peter McEwan, who had discovered salt in Goderich
in 1866.
Reuben Sallows is buried with his wife Flora and
sons Darius and Albert in the Maitland Cemetery.
A Goderich Signal Star editorial written at the time
reads, “His landscape studies were photographic
masterpieces… Here is a man who leaves an indelible
imprint on the lives of the community in which he
lived and laboured and achieved worthwhile things.”
Colleen Maguire is the Chairperson, researcher, author and
presenter for the R.R. Sallows Gallery, in Goderich. You can
follow the gallery on Facebook.
“The year my father died, I had pneumonia and my
half-sister Flo looked after me. She was wonderful.
I was just eight years old when my father died, but
I can still remember riding around in the car with
him.”
In describing her father, Nancy said, “He had a very
good sense of humour, was very likable, and not
mean spirited at all.”
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On July 23, 1937, on his way to Camp Kintail to
photograph some Knox Church camp children, his
1916 Model T Ford overturned into a ditch, pinning
him underneath. He was conscious at the scene, and
the car was lifted up so he could be pulled out and
transported to the Alexandra Marine & General
Hospital where he walked into the hospital unaided.
Unfortunately, he had suffered fractured ribs and
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