Millie Gamble

Millie Gamble (1887–1986) was an early amateur photographer from Prince Edward Island, Canada. Her photographs from 1905 to 1920 record life in the Tyron area.

Born in Cascumpec, Prince Edward Island, Gamble graduated as a nurse in Winnipeg in 1922. She then worked as a nurse in Tryon until her retirement in 1949. Active in the local community, she had the means to make photography her hobby.

Gamble was given a camera in 1904 by an uncle from Truro, Nova Scotia. Part of Prince Edward Island's first generation of amateur photographers, she took well-composed images of the Tryon area which record the way of life of the period. Rather than the stiffly posed images of earlier photographers, her shots depicted more natural scenes of people and places. Her work was first shown in 1983 by the Regional Art Gallery in London, Ontario as part of an exhibition titled Rediscovering Canadian Women Photographers, 1841-1941. More recently, they have been exhibited by the Confederation Centre of the Arts in Charlottetown.

Millie Gamble's photographs are held in the Public Archives and Records Office, Prince Edward Island, the National Gallery of Canada Archives, and Library and Archives Canada.