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F. W. Micklethwaite

Canadian photographer (1849-1925)

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Source revisionJul 2, 2026
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Frank William Micklethwaite (1849–1925) was a Canadian photographer, professionally known as F. W. Micklethwaite, whose photographs of Toronto and the Muskoka area form an important and unique photographic record of the province of Ontario's history in the late 19th century and early 20th century. Micklethwaite specialized in outside views and landscapes, as well as architectural and commercial photography, and he was one of Toronto's best known photographers.

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This entry incorporates text from “F. W. Micklethwaite” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.