Aline Gubbay

In 2005 Gubbay died of pancreatic cancer in Montreal.

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).

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).

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.

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.

Aline Gubbay (June 20, 1920 – October 21, 2005) was a Canadian photographer, art historian and writer.

Born in Alexandria, Egypt on June 20, 1920 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.