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Black and white photo of three people in conversation, looking at each other.
Photograph: Conrad Poirier
Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec

Hortense Douglas (right) with R. Forrest Angus and his wife Isabella Cantlie, November 16, 1940. Hortense was the daughter of an American, Henry P. Douglas OBE, manager of the Prudential Insurance Company of America in Montreal. The family was well connected in the business community in Canada and the United States.