| Aline Gubbay | |
| Birth Date: | June 20, 1920 |
| Birth Place: | Alexandria, Egypt |
| Death Place: | Montreal, Canada |
| Nationality: | Canadian |
| Education: | McGill University, Concordia University |
| Field: | Photographer, Writer |
Aline Gubbay (June 20, 1920 – October 21, 2005)[1] was a Canadian photographer, art historian and writer.
Gubbay was the author of four non-fiction books, Montreal's Little Mountain (1979), The Mountain and the River (1981), A Street Called the Main (1989) and A View of Their Own (1998).
Born in Alexandria, Egypt on June 20, 1920[2] Gubbay was the daughter of a Turkish mother and a Russian Jewish father From Georgia. In 1924, at the age of four, Gubbay moved with her family to England.[3]
Despite earning a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London in 1935, Gubbay pursued a career in photography at the urging of her parents.[1] She studied under photographer Germaine Kahn and had a successful career as a portrait photographer in England.[2] Notably, her photograph of Charles de Gaulle was used on a Free France propaganda leaflet.[1]
In 1948 she married Eric Gubbay and they emigrated to Winnipeg.[1] At that time Gubbay abandoned her photography career.[2] 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.[2] [1] In 1978 she received her master's degree in art history from Concordia University.[2] [3]
Gubbay wrote for the Westmount Examiner on the topic of local history. She was the author of four non-fiction books, Montreal's Little Mountain (1979), The Mountain and the River (1981), A Street Called the Main (1989) and A View of Their Own (1998).[1]
In 2005 Gubbay died of pancreatic cancer in Montreal.[2] [1]