Figure 1.-- We note a photograph from Toronto, Ontario in 1947. Note the heavy British influence with the one boy on the right wearing a traditional English school peaked cap with shorts and suspenders. All the boys are wearing sweaters and rubber Wellington boots. The boots have always been very popular in Canada and they still are today. However, traditional English school caps have since totally disappeared in Canada. The picture was probably taken in the early Spring or in the Fall of 1947. They are playing marbles, a popular schoolboy game.

Some boys in the 1940s wore short pants or knickers with both long stockings and kneesock. Older boys commonly wore long pants. A photograph came across a photograph of typical Anglophone Canadian boys shows boys wearing a variety of clothings. Some boys looked rather like English boys and others more like American boys. We note a photograph from Toronto, Ontario in 1947. Note the heavy British influence with the one boy on the right wearing a traditional English school peaked cap with shorts and suspenders. All the boys are wearing sweaters and rubber Wellington boots. The boots have always been very popular in Canada and they still are today. However, traditional English school caps have since totally disappeared in Canada. The picture was probably taken in the early Spring or in the Fall of 1947. They are playing marbles, a popular schoolboy game.

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