Jamie Linton

I DON'T KNOW if George Lilley saw her in the viewfinder of his camera on that summer afternoon of 1952. After all, there was plenty of action taking place that day in Macdonald Park, about a 10-minute walk from downtown Kingston, Ontario. About 60 people are visible in the photograph, most of them sitting on benches or standing along the shoreline, looking out over Lake Ontario. Several children are playing on a raft anchored metres off the shore at the place known as Richardson Beach. Even though she appears near the centre of the photograph, her presence may have escaped Lilley. But he managed nevertheless to snap his picture at exactly the right moment – for my purposes, at least. …