Jeremy Taylor photographer

Taylor weds Ilona Susgin July '68

 The ever-clever and resourceful Martin MtlTV purchased a load of amazing photos at a flea market recently and attempted to figure out from whence they cameth.
   Well, it seems that an envelope with the name Taylor gave it away and Martin came up with the name Jeremy Taylor.
   During the early 60s a photographer named Jeremy Taylor made a name for himself by snapping photopix of the city.    He eventually devoted his faith to the religions of the east and gave away his camera equipment.
   We know this because Taylor received some attention in a biography written about his father, whose claim to fame was being the brother of E.P. Taylor, Canada's most successful business entrepreneur for several decades.
   The book suggests that Jeremy and his brother had a hard time under dad Fred, who eventually got old and ill and killed himself, as he said he didn't want to deteriorate slowly as his brother E.P. did.
   Jeremy's brother Paul managed to scrape out a career at CKGM (once almost getting into an on-air fistfight with Rene Levesque) then as a federal MP in Toronto before moving out west.
   Jeremy himself was given some sort of shock therapy in his youth, so he didn't have it easy either.
   Jeremy Taylor quit the Maharji cult after four years and returned to Montreal and repurchased photographic equipment with the help of uncle Edward.
   He and his wife split in 1973 but she apparently went back to India for seven years, presumably with their son Malcolm Taylor, who is now a photographer at the Ottawa Citizen.
   The photo of the fire below shows a cop watching a fire, possibly in St. Henri, surely part of his collection that was turned into a NFB film.
   The photo of the flooded hardware store is also a mystery but it sure looks like the basement of the Rona on Notre Dame near Vinet, which still looks almost exactly like that.