Résultats

      This farm on lot 29 of Concession 3 (Rossland Road) at the north-west corner of Rossland and Chocrane Street was also known as Broadfield. It was settled about 1837 by James Tweedie (1803-1857). The brick house on the property was built in 1845.

      The Whitby Junction Station was built at the foot of Byron Street on the Grand Trunk Railway in 1903 near the current GO Transit platform. In 1914, it was the scene of an unsolved murder. It closed in 1969 and in 1970 was moved to the north-east corner of Victoria …

      Jabez Lynde (1773-1856) was born in Brookfield, MA. He married Clarissa Woodruff (1774-1830) in 1796. In 1803 Jabez and Clarissa emigrated to Canada, settling at the area now known as Lynde Creek in 1804. Sylvester Bernard Lynde (1800-1883), eldest son of Jabez and Clarissa, married Louisa Mary Smith in 1822 …

      Donald McKay (1837-1914) and Alice Noble ( -1924) had six children. Donald taught at Markham Township for a number of years before retiring to mercantile life. He was appointed Ontario County Treasurer in 1890 and held the position until his death. Following her father's death, Emily Alice McKay was appointed …

      Joshua Crawforth (1819-1898) married Ann Atkinson (1823-1888) at Yorkshire, England in 1844. The came to Canada in 1845 and settled at base line in Whitby. Joshua and Ann had eleven children: Sarah (1845-1913), Matthew (1847-1913), Samuel (1849-1851), Hannah (1851-1888), Martha (1853-1923), Mary (1855-1926), Mark (1857-1934), Susan (1859-1943), William (1861-1870), James …

      Thomas Hall Wilson (1837-1913), eldest son of James (1807-1890) and Elizabeth (1818-1889) Wilson, married Catherine DeGeer (1837-1913) at Whitchurch Township in 1858; they had six children: Mary Hannah Wilson (1860-1942), William James Wilson (1862-1915), Amanda Elizabeth Wilson (1864-1952), Charles Herbert Wilson (1866-1943), Kate Annett Wilson (1869-1953), George Iolum Wilson (1872-1954). …

      Thomas Hall Wilson (1837-1913), married Catherine DeGeer (1837-1913) at Whitchurch Township in 1858; they had six children: Mary Hannah Wilson (1860-1942), William James Wilson (1862-1915), Amanda Elizabeth Wilson (1864-1952), Charles Herbert Wilson (1866-1943), Kate Annett Wilson (1869-1953), George Iolum Wilson (1872-1954). Thomas was a harness maker and operated a toll …

      Thomas Hall Wilson (1837-1913), eldest son of James (1807-1890) and Elizabeth (1818-1889) Wilson, married Catherine DeGeer (1837-1913) at Whitchurch Township in 1858; they had six children: Mary Hannah Wilson (1860-1942), William James Wilson (1862-1915), Amanda Elizabeth Wilson (1864-1952), Charles Herbert Wilson (1866-1943), Kate Annett Wilson (1869-1953), George Iolum Wilson (1872-1954). …

      The house at left was demolished in 1974.

      James Ironside Davidson (1818-1902) was born in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. He married Barbara Hendrie (1819-1900), also of Aberdeenshire, in 1841 at Monquhitter, Aberdeenshire. In 1842 the couple immigrated to Canada settling at Balsam. James and Barbara had five children: John (1842-1913), Andrew (1845-1935), James (1847-1934), Mary Ironside (1849-1939), George (1853-1915). James …

      Dryden School, so called because it was on the James Dryden farm, was officially known as Union School Section No.6 and it combined Whitby and East Whitby Townships. The school house was built in 1880 on the north-east corner of Concession 7 and Thickson Road. It was closed by the …

      Union School Section Number Four was located on Base Line in East Whitby Township.

      James Hamilton Nicholson was born in Ireland in 1853 and was married at Belfast, Ireland on February 1, 1876. He then went to Iowa in the United States and arrived in Whitby about 1878. From 1904 until his death he was a furniture dealer and undertaker. He died at Whitby …

      James Ironside Davidson was born at Monquhitter, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, on June 8, 1818, settled on Lot 1, Concession 8, Pickering Township, near the village of Balsam, in 1842. He began breeding Clydesdale Horses and Shorthorn Cattle in 1859. In 1871 he began importing animals from the famous breeder, Amos Cruickshank, …

      Reverend A. Fordyce Barr was Rector of All Saints' from 1907 to 1911. A surplice choir was formed by Rev. Barr in 1909.

      Samuel Robert Wickett was born at Milton-Demarel, Devon, England, on June 21, 1844, and came to Canada in 1855. He was in business at Geneva, near Oshawa from 1866 to1870 and in 1870 purchased the Powell Tannery in Brooklin. When his tannery at Brooklin was destroyed by fire in 1881, …

      Frances Eliza Armstrong, daughter of James Rogers Armstrong and Hannah Dougall, was born in 1832. She and Nelson Gilbert Reynolds (Sheriff of Ontario County from 1854-1881) were married in 1852. Together they had a family of 12 children and lived from 1862 to 1874 in Trafalgar Castle (now known as …

      Mary Shaddick was born at Hartland, Devonshire, England, on March 25, 1800. She remembered the bonfires on the coast of the English Channel when Lord Nelson won the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, the great comet of 1811 and the great snowstorm of 1813. She was married in 1819 to …

      Reverend Matthew Gold was born at East Nurcott Farm, Winsford, Somerset, England, on February 28, 1835. He came to Canada about 1855 and worked on a farm while gaining a teacher's certificate. He took a course at Woodstock College and became a Baptist minister with charges at Whitby, Whitevale and …

      Mrs. Ezekiel Richard Blow (Edith May Correll) was born at Whitby on November 9, 1879. She and Ezekiel Richard Blow were married at Whitby on October 7, 1903. She was an active member of St. John's Anglican Church, Port Whitby and was treasurer of the Cemetery Committee. She was also …