Ebenezer “Aben” Nicholson

a.k.a. “Little Mac”
Born in Brockville, July 11, 1844

This well-dressed young man from Brockville was a well-known performer the day he posed for a New York photographer. Ebenezer Nicholson grew up in Brockville, and later became a Minstrel Show performer.

Brockville in 1936

This is how the business interests of Brockville described themselves in 1936:
“Brockville is the Eastern Gateway to the Thousand Islands, the Venice of America, and every day, at convenient hours, commodious sight-seeing boats make trips through the scenic beauties of the St. Lawrence, leaving from a readily accessible dock in the centre of [...]