Aline Gubbay


Aline Gubbay was a Canadian photographer, art historian and writer.
Gubbay was the author of four non-fiction books, Montreal's Little Mountain, The Mountain and the River, A Street Called the Main and A View of Their Own.

Biography

Born in Alexandria, Egypt on June 20, 1920 Gubbay was the daughter of a Turkish mother and father who was a Russian Jew From Georgia.
In 1924, at the age of four, Gubbay moved with her family to England.
Despite earning a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London in 1935, Gabba pursued a career in photography at the urging of her parents. She studied under photographer Germaine Kahn and had a successful career as a portrait photographer in England. Notably, her photograph of Charles de Gaulle was used on a Free France propaganda leaflet.
In 1948 she married Eric Gubbay and they emigrated to Winnipeg. At that time Gubbay abandoned her photography career.
In 1956, with her children grown, the Gubbays moved to Montreal and Aline returned to her education, obtaining a degree from McGill University in social work. In 1978 she received her master's degree in art history from Concordia University.
Gubbay wrote for the Westport Examiner on the topic of local history. She was the author of four non-fiction books, Montreal's Little Mountain, The Mountain and the River, A Street Called the Main and A View of Their Own.
In 2005 Gubbay died of pancreatic cancer in Montreal.

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