130 University Avenue West, Cobourg, Ontario. This house belonged to Andrew Elvins. Photo taken in August 1983 by Peter Broughton.

The house is still standing in 2025, right next to a car dealership. The house next door (on the right) is gone now, part of the parking lot at the dealership.—WM

Andrew Elvins in 1872.

Picture published in JRASC, 1919.

Picture published in JRASC, 1919.

At Mr. Howell's house, 218 Bleecker Street, Toronto. (About 1888).  The object shown on the table is a Wimshurst influence machine made by Mr. Moore.  With this machine and Leyden jars, they were able to get a spark about 13 inches long, which they photographed.

Left to right: Mr. Barters (a friend who came occasionally but whose name does not appear on the list of members), A. Elvins, A.F. Miller, G.G. Pursey, W.J. Moore (who for many years was a workman with the instrument maker James Foster).

Photograph taken at a meeting of the Toronto Astronomical Society (probably 1888).  This meeting was held at the home of Samuel E. Roberts, 1 Avenue Street (a short street that ran from the head of Elizabeth Street to University Avenue), Toronto.

From left to right: G.G. Pursey, A. Elvins, S. Roberts, D.J. Howell, A.F. Hunter, A.F. Miller.

Mars, as seen in 1868(?). Sketch by Andrew Elvins.

These sketches, undated, were formerly attributed in our Archives to Andrew Elvins. They are in fact lithographs of observational skecthes by Warren De la Rue from 1856 April 20, as can be found in Camille Flammarion, La Planète Mars et ses conditions d'habitabilité, synthèse générale de toutes les observations..., vol. I (Paris: Gauthier-Villars et fils, 1892), p. 128, fig. 76, and p. 129, fig. 77, among other places.

Mars as seen in 1892(?). Sketch by Andrew Elvins.