The typewritten captions to these three photographs state: (top left): “January 1953. 3 ton Colllis truck for man-handling lift vans.” And (top right): “Lift van from Australia reloaded with a very valuable library for the Canadian government”. And (bottom LHS): “Removal from Kidlington, Oxford, to Canada, September 1919, professor Whitnall”.
So now we know that the reference in the preceding page of the scrapbook to “W. Whitnall” is to Professor W. Whitnall, who thus moved about as detailed in that note, over the period from 1919 to 1962.
An online search suggests professor Whitnall may be as follows:
"Dr. Samuel Ernest Whitnall - 1876-1950
In 1919 McGill appointed Dr. Whitnall the Robert Reford Professor of Anatomy and Chairman of the department.
Whitnall’s relationship to ophthalmology was due to his interest in and research on the orbit. His book, the well known Anatomy of the Orbit, was published in 1921. He was the rst to describe what became known as Whitnall’s ligament – a structure which supports the levator aponeurosis.
Whitnall left a large collection of orbital dissection specimens which were used by the residents in ophthalmology for some 60 years. Unfortunately, they were lost when loaned to another university for teaching purposes. "