"A" Company, 72nd Regiment, Seaforth Highlanders, August, 1911. They are dressed In full scarlets and feather bonnets on the steps of a building. The sign on the window states: "The ___ Stock and ___ Mining ___" . Believed to be at the R.V. Winch Building at 739 West Hastings Street, Vancouver which has been part of the Sinclair Centre since 1986. The Winch Building was located on the corner of Howe and Hastings this building was started in 1908 and completed in 1911 by cannery pioneer Richard Vance Winch. It was designed by Thomas Hooper and was completed for $700,000 and sold to the federal government in 1925. The Richard Vance Winch (R.V.) Winch Building is associated with the North American trend towards larger and higher commercial office buildings. The Winch Building was at the forefront of the general movement which saw an increasing concentration of major commercial buildings along West Hastings, West Pender and Granville Streets in downtown Vancouver. Owner and builder R.V. Winch was a Vancouver based entrepreneur whose firm was engaged in such diverse activities as shipping, insurance, real estate, and consular representation for Norway and Sweden” (historicplaces.ca) This photo MAY have been taken by George Alfred Barrowclough who was a Vancouver photographer who spesialized in postcards and was active in the 1910s-early 1920s.