Title

Billy McQuire's casket

Description

MCQUIRE MCGUIRE LARGEST TWINS RIPLEY'S MUSEUM

en-CA Billy and Benny McQuire were billed as the world's largest twins, they appeared many times at Ripley's Belive-it--or--not Museum in the 1970s. On July 24 1979 Billy was riding his motor cycle on Clifton Hill when the tires caught in the tracks of the railway line at the top of the hill and he fell. Billy died at GNGH (Greater Niagara General Hospital)of a blood clot. This image shows the casket being loaded onto a truck at Hetherington & Deans Funeral Home, Victoria Avenue ;

Identifier

http://www.nflibrary.ca/nfplindex/show.asp?b=1&ref=oo&id=92681

Creator

Roels, Ron

Medium

Photograph

Extent

8.5" x 6.5"

Is Part Of

Francis J. Petrie Collection

General Photograph Collection

Date

197907

locator

12918

Subject

Niagara Falls - General

number

D12918

Format

Photograph

Date Created

2003-12-29

Date Modified

2005-02-16