Millie Gamble (1887–1986) was an amateur photographer from

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, Canada. Her photographs from 1905 to 1920 record life in the

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area.

Biography

Gamble was born in

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on January 17, 1887. She worked as a school teacher in North Bedeque from 1905 to 1906 and in Tryon from 1907 to 1919 before leaving for Winnipeg to study nursing. After graduating from the Winnipeg General Hospital in 1922 she returned to Prince Edward Island where she worked as a nurse in Tyron until retiring in 1949. Gamble was given a Ray No. 1 camera in 1904 while visiting her uncle in Truro, Nova Scotia. Part of Prince Edward Island's first generation of amateur photographers, she took well-composed images of the Tryon area which record the way of life of the period. Rather than the stiffly posed images of earlier photographers, her shots depicted more natural scenes of people and places. Her work was first shown in 1983 by the Regional Art Gallery in

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as part of an exhibition titled ''Rediscovering Canadian Women Photographers, 1841-1941''. More recently, they have been exhibited by the

Confederation Centre Art Gallery The Confederation Centre Art Gallery (CCAG; french: Musée d’art du Centre de la Confédération) is an art museum that forms a part of the Confederation Centre of the Arts in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada. The art museum pavilion f ...

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. Millie Gamble's photographs are held in the Public Archives and Records Office, Prince Edward Island, the National Gallery of Canada Archives, and

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."Gamble, Millie"
Artist Database, Canadian Women Artists History Initiative. Retrieved 5 March 2013. In 2016 a portion of the former Trans-Canada Highway in Tyron was renamed Millie Gamble Road.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gamble, Millie Canadian photographers Canadian women photographers 1887 births 1986 deaths People from Prince County, Prince Edward Island Artists from Prince Edward Island Canadian women artists