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Lady Agnes Macdonald and Daughter Mary

Lady Agnes Macdonald crouches next to a chair in which her baby Mary is propped, 1868.

Library and Archives Canada PA-033465 MIKAN 3820242

Lady Agnes Macdonald and her infant daughter Mary were photographed by William James Topley in Ottawa June 1869. Mary, diagnosed with hydrocephalus, and who would be Sir John and Lady Agnes’s only child together, would require nursing care for the rest of her life.