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Mrs. Ann Elizabeth Benton, Nanaimo coal miner's widow, and her seven children: Jane (10 years old), Bramley (9), Elizabeth (7), George (6), Emily (3) and Edwin (6 months). The picture was taken in a Nanaimo photographic studio in December 1887.

Mrs. Ann Elizabeth Benton, Nanaimo coal miner's widow, and her seven children, 1887.

Photograph courtesy of the Nanaimo Community Archives, Accession I2-272.