Hamilton Mack Laing as student, artist, teacher, principal, traveller, explorer, naturalist
Note: Photographs market with ‘*’ are in the collection of the Comox Archives and Museum, Comox, BC.
Who was Mack Laing? A special folding brochure outlines the life of this remarkable man. It may be viewed and downloaded HERE (pdf)
The Mt Logan expedition setting out,1925Laing with box camera, 1923Laing with brother on motorcycle trip, 1915Showing off on Route 66,
1915Laing, Osoyoos Lake 1929Laing making adjustment to packs on motorcycle, 2025Laing in Mt Logan expedition base camp, 1925Laing with field gun, Ontario 1918Laing as plane spotter, Ontario, 1918Pratt Institute art class, Laing, far leftLaing (back left) with Pratt Institute class, 1911Laing as principal of Oakwood High Schoo, Oak Lake, Manitoba, 1910Laing on his loaded motorcycle, 1915Laing, teacher, in soccer uniform, Oakwood High School, Oak Lake, 1908Laing, Chitina River, Alaska 1925Laing on an early Harley-Davidson, on a trip across the US, 1915Laing painting at the Pratt Institute, NY, 1912 *
