Seven Oaks Album, pages 15-22

Nora

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c.1890s
The back reads "With love from Nora - "
...but so far she is unidentified.

Mary Sinclair Inkster

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Photo by Simon Duffin
Winnipeg
​1874-1875
Picture
This photo shows matriarch Mary Sinclair Inkster at the age of 70 or 71. She is wearing an expensive, imported, watered-silk gown that would have glimmered as she moved. Around her neck is a brooch that is still in our museum: It holds a braid of hair under glass, likely belonging to a deceased family member.

an Inkster-Sinclair woman?

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c.1890-1910
This photo as often shared as an image of Margaret Nahovway Sinclair. It is more likely one of her grand-daughters: Jane Inkster Tait or Marak Inkster near the end of their lives.

Nahovway died in 1863, when photography was still virtually unknown in Red River. The building behind her appears to date from around 1900 as does her clothing and the chair she's seated in.
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Photo by Hall & Lowe
​Winnipeg
1881-1887
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Photo by Duffin & Co.
Winnipeg
1877-1881

A Sinclair grandson

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Photo by Dore Gallery
San Francisco, California
c.1890-1900
"To grandma with the warmest affections of a distant grandson."
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Given its origin in California, this photo may be linked to Captain Colin Sinclair or his brother James Sinclair, but it's not clear who "grandma" could be.
The Dore Gallery operated from the late 1800s until at least 2019.
3/22/2475

Photo by Knight & Johnson
San Francisco, California
c.1880s
As in the previous photo, this young woman is likely connected to the family of Captain Colin Sinclair or the descendants of James Sinclair. As far as we know Colin did not have children, and there are no identified images of his wife.

Jessie Sinclair Copely

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Photo by Elite Photographic Studio
San Francisco, California
after 1879
Jessie (Feb 14, 1844 - Aug 1, 1924)  was the daughter of James Sinclair and Elizabeth Bird. She would have been Captain Colin Sinclair's niece.
Her father was commissioned by the HBC to lead a party of early settlers to Oregon. On Aug 31, 1865 she married Alexander W. Copely, a veteran of the US Civil War. Around 1872 they moved to Oakland, California. Her husband died in 1886 and at the time of her death she resided in San Luis Obispo. They had no children.