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Duncan Macnamara
1896
Marshalls Bay, Ontario, Canada

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Duncan Macnamara was born in 1873. He married Kate Harkness from Irena, Ontario in 1902. They had two children; Charlie and Jean. Duncan went into banking with the help of his father's friend Mr. David M. Finnie. Duncan was a talented musician, playing the flute and horn and singing baritone in the church choir. He died at age 27 after contracting Tuberculosis while working for the Bank of Ottawa in Prince Albert Saskatchewan.

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Charles (Charlie) Harkness Macnamara
1907
Arnprior, Ontario, Canada

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Charles Harkness Macnamara (Charlie) was born in 1904 and died three years later of summer fever, only one year after his father. Charles Macnamara photographed his namesake with the loving eye of a proud uncle.

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Jean Macnamara
1909
Arnprior, Ontario, Canada

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Jean Graham Macnamara was born in Arnprior in 1906. Her mother Kate had taken a room at the Murphy house across the street from the Macnamara home when her husband Duncan became ill. Jean was photographed more than any other person by her uncle Charles until her daughter Judith was born in 1934.

Uncle Charlie's preoccupation with scientific investigation might have influenced Jean Macnamara's decision to study Household science at the University of Toronto from 1924 -1928. She graduated with an honours BA, received a Masters of Psychology and was working on her PhD in Developmental Psychology with Dr. William Blatz when she married Franklyn Finch Cunningham in 1933. Their three children, Judith, Jamie and Alison were enriched by their mother's interest in children's literature, nutrition and theatre.

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Armond Burwash and Charles Macnamara
July, 1909
Arnprior, Ontario, Canada

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Charles Macnamara and Armond Burwash went on several excursions together in the area surrounding Arnprior and up the Madawaska river. When this photograph was taken in 1909, Charles Macnamara was an experienced photographer. In an essay on Pictorial Photography in Canada that appeared in Photograms of 1905 by H. Mortimer Lamb, Macnamara was given special mention for his understanding of pictorialism and technical skill. Others from the Ottawa area were criticised for producing merely "pretty-pretty" work. In 1907, Macnamara exhibited "Pines and Snow", "Sunset and Pines", "The Long Road" and "For The Night Cometh" at an Exhibition of Pictorial Photographs arranged by the Photographic Club of Canada in Montreal.

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Jean Macnamara
1912
Arnprior, Ontario, Canada

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This evocative portrait of Jean Macnamara was taken around 1912. It is one of the few formal portraits ever taken by Macnamara using classic studio lighting techniques. It is not know whether this photograph was ever exhibited. The child staring directly into the photographer's lens seems wiser than her 6 years. Perhaps Macnamara had in this photograph, captured the steady gaze of a solitary child who's brother and father had both died within a year of her birth.

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Jean Macnamara
1916
Arnprior, Ontario, Canada

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In 1916, when Jean came to live with the Macnamara family so that her mother Kate could teach school in Ottawa, she was given this grey, lamb's wool, winter outfit. She regularly trekked through McLachlin's Grove (later Gillies Grove) and along the railway tracks to the lumber yards. Macnamara wrote 'The Young Snowshoer' beside this print.

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Marian and Lewis Macnamara and friends
1899
Marshalls Bay, Ontario, Canada
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Lewis Macnamara, seen here with family friends at Marshall's Bay, was born in 1865 and apprenticed at sea. He returned to Arnprior and worked as secretary/treasurer of the Sanitarus beverage company from 1898 to 1932. Water from the Diamond Park Springs resort near Arnprior was carbonated, bottled and shipped to destinations in Canada and the United States. He left the Daniel Street home around 1926 to live elsewhere and died in 1941.

In this 1899 photograph, Marian Macnamara is seen in profile next to Mr. & Mrs. Harry Walker (close friends of Duncan and Kate Macnamara's). Beside Lewis Macnamara is Della Cranston. The unidentified woman reclining in the centre might be Kate Macnamara.