Photo of Wilhelmina "Mina" Henderson (left) and Jean Rowe (later Jean Casselman Wadds) picking berries in 1932. Both girls are dressed in loose blouses and pants with pails at their feet. Jean was the daughter of William Earl Rowe. During his political career, Earl Rowe served as reeve of the township of West Gwillimbury from 1919 to 1923. Rowe served as a Member of Provincial Parliament from 1923 to 1925, and was then elected to the House of Commons, where he served until 1935. From 1936 to 1938, he was leader of Conservative Party of Ontario though, as he did not have a seat in the legislature George S. Henry remained Leader of the Opposition. He also served as Ontario's twentieth lieutenant governor from 1963 to 1968. His daughter Jean was also a Member of Parliament and from 1958 to 1962 Earl and Jean were the only father and daughter to sit together in parliament. Jean Casselman Wadds also served as Canadian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1983, playing a role in the government of Pierre Trudeau's negotiations with the British government of Margaret Thatcher in Trudeau's successful effort to patriate the Canadian Constitution in 1982. The Rowe family lived on a farm in Newton Robinson, and Earl's wife Treva remained close with Mina Henderson, whom the family had hired to help with running the household from 1928/9 until 1932. This photo was donated by Mina's daughter, Elizabeth Carson.
