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1995.10.7

ID Number: 1995.10.7
Category: Communication Artifacts
Sub-category: personal symbol
Item Name: patch
Materials: TEXTILE, UNKNOWN TEXTILE, FELT
Description: green and white crest; horseshoe shape; background white; lettering green
History: Bruce Irvine (b.29th March, died October 30, 1968) owned the Horseshoe Hotel at Howard and Cataraqui (where Aylmer and Glengarry join form a horseshoe shape - hence the name of the hotel). Emily Irvine worked for a dry cleaner and then c.1959 went to work for Community and Social Services. J. Bruce Irvine's parents, Margaret (nee Carriere) Irvine and William C. "Red" Irvine owned the hotel prior to their son. They had taken over management of the hotel in 1913-1914 and later (probably before the end of the first World War) had purchased the hotel. Donor says her husband was tending bar from an early age. Donor says that the Horseshoe Hotel was one of the first to get a legal liquor licence when they came out in the 30's This creast probably came off a jacket of a sports league jacket, Bruce had made up a design for the new hotel, but the plans never worked out.
Collection Name: Museum Windsor
Subject (Fre): Y

Subjects

Horse Shoe Hotel / Hôtel Horse Shoe organization

Sports subject

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