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Above: This may be the only existing photo of Ottawa horse cab drivers. In 1877 these gentlemen garnered a bit of favourable publicity for themselves and their trade by presenting a gold-headed cane to Canada's Governor General, Lord Dufferin, and a silver card case to Lady Dufferin. Below: The event as recorded by Lady Dufferin in her diary. She says there were 14 cab drivers present but only nine showed up for the commemorative photo at the Topley studio.

Source: Top: Page from the Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava album, showing a group of Ottawa cab drivers who presented a gold headed cane to Lord Dufferin and a silver card case to Lady Dufferin, 1877. The Topley Studio / Library and Archives Canada / e0083113405. Bottom: Harriot Georgina Blackwood, Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava, My Canadian Journal, 1872-8: Extracts from my letters home written while Lord Dufferin was Governor-General (London, J. Murray, 1891), pp. 306-307. University of Toronto Robarts Library copy via archive.org.