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Piano

Walnut-cased Palace Grand upright piano by Uxbridge, ca. 1892

This piano belonged to David and Annie McDougall (Georgie’s parents).
Eleanor Luxton’s manuscript about her grandmother, Annie McDougall, says that in 1892 David McDougall sent to Oxford, Ontario for a piano. One was sent out, but he and Annie did not like the tone so they returned it. The Oxford people wrote to say that they had a piano at the Columbia Exposition and it had taken first prize. They went on to say that if David was willing to wait, he could have it when the Exposition closed. So in 1893 their first piano came. It became Georgina’s when she married and went with her to her new home in Banff.

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