PHOTO GALLERY
FRED & SADIE (nee LUDLOW) REES
Fred Rees (1915-2001) was the Resident Manager of the Wabana Mines from 1965 to 1966 when the mines ceased operation, and remained in the position for another year to wind down the business. Read Fred & Sadie Rees' biographies on the "People" page in section "R." The photos below were provided by two of their children: Brian and Anna-Clare.
|
A portrait of a young Fred Rees, perhaps his graduation photo from Nova Scotia Technical College, where he received his Mining Engineering degree in 1938.
|
|
|
|
The photo on the left above is from the Submarine Miner, V. 1, No. 1, June 1954, p. 2 on the occasion of his being promoted to Assistant General Superintendent of Mines at Wabana. The photo on the right is some years later, perhaps when he was Director of Personnel at Memorial University, where he worked from 1967-1981.
|
|
The photo (painting?) on the left above is of Fred Rees' father, Ananias Rees (1878-1965), who was Mechanical Superintendent with DOSCO. On the right above is Fred Rees as a child.
Above is Fred Rees and son Brian, c.1968.
In the photo above, Fred and Sadie are travelling to her childhood home in Fogo following their wedding in St. John's, July 1942. Below is a letter "Miss" Ludlow received from her students, "the pupils of Grades 6 & 7," as she was leaving the teaching profession "to get married."
|
Two early photos of Fred and Sadie, c.1940s-1950s.
|
A dream of Sadie's came true in the Spring of 1973 when she graduated with her degree in Special Education alongside her youngest daughter, Anna-Clare.
|
On the occasion of their 50th wedding anniversary, July 1992, Fred & Sadie Rees are surrounded by their children, clockwise starting from the bottom right: Anna-Clare, Cheryl, Diane, Alvin, Brian and Janet. |
|