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Here we have another all boys French Canadian First Communion group. Presumably they are a school group although are photographed outside the church where they are doing their First Communion. Allwe know for sure about the group is the boys ae French Canadians and the portrait was taken n 1936. Some schools/chrches did not give the children instructions about how they should dress. We see that in the 1930 Halifax group above. And other churches gave very detailed instructions as we can see in the 1932 Lituanian church on the previous page. Here the parents were clearly given some instructions. The boys all wear suits. This is more formal rhan some groups, but less formal than the black suits and black long stockings that we see some boys wearing. We see various styes both single- and double-breasted suits. The colors seem to be mid-range colors, but two boys seem tonbe wearing white or very light-colored suits. They are mostly long pants suits, although ome boys wear short pants and knee socks. THe long pants may reflect suggestion from the church because we do not believe that long pants were this common for boys this age. We do see more long pant in the late-1930s, but such a predominance seems rather unusual. Notably none of the boys seemn to be wearing knickers which were common at the time. It is also interesting that the boys wearing shorts are wearing knee socks. Long stockings were still very common in Canada at the time.
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