Studio portrait of the Sharpe Family. Pictured in the centre are Mr. John and Mrs. Nellie (née Gray) Sharpe with their children Kate (front left) who married W.D. Henry (first marriage), and Lizzie (front right) who married W.D. Henry (second marriage). In the back row from left to right are William (father of Zeta, Muriel, and Kaye), Ann who married Thomas Lucas, George (father of Scott), Mary (married Doc Patterson, the Allandale druggist), Matt (father of Telford and Winnifred), and Margaret (married Jack Gordon). Further information is available at the Document Centre at Knock. The women in the photo are all wearing long sleeved dark coloured dresses and the men are wearing dark wool suits. The Sharpe family came from Sligo, Ireland and were some of Innisfil's earliest pioneers. John and Nellie met in Rawdon, Quebec after both moving to Canada with their parents and together they moved to Innisfil in about 1843. They had twelve children and celebrated their diamond wedding anniversary. The original spelling of Sharp when the family came to Canada was without an E, but the E was added because it was considered fancier by John Sharpe's mother, Florence Ingham.
