Résultats

      This building (cottage) was built in the 1850s at 926 Byron Street South on the west side between Keith and Burns Streets. The house at left was the residence of Robert J. Wilson, built in 1857 at the south east corner of Keith and Centre Streets. Both Mr. Gordon and …

      This house is located at 201 Pine Street on the north-east corner of Mary and Pine Streets. It was built in the 1850s and demolished in 1976. Owners of this house were the Armstrong family, W.H. Higgins, C.F. Stewart, J.B. Laidlaw, and Frank Lloyd Beecroft. The home was called "The …

      James Wallace was born in Kincardineshire, Scotland on March 3, 1814 and came to Whitby before 1840. He was a businessman who worked as a contractor, newspaper editor and owner of a soap works and clock factory. He organized and financed the Whitby Highland Rifle Company and took part in …

      Mrs. Peter Gordon Meldrum (Mary Alice Fisher) was born at Whitby Township on January 31, 1852. She and Dr. Peter Gordon Meldrum (a physician) were married in Oshawa on December 23, 1873. Mary Alice Fisher died in 1947.

      Also P3454

      Sketch of the town plot (West Fort) about 1875. Sketch shows Mt. McKay, Neebing Hotel, Government dock, railroad and telegraph wires.

      A photograph of the Ontario Bank, which opened at Prince Arthur's Landing (later called Port Arthur) in 1875. The bank served a population of 500. One of the bank tellers was Samuel Wellington Ray, who went on in later years to open his own private bank and become Mayor of …

      Sarah Whatmough (1847 - 1910) visited Toronto with her parents, Frederick and Sarah née Holt, from 1872 to 1875.

      Major Harper was born in Whitby on November 1, 1835. Throughout his life he worked as a carpenter and builder of woodworking machinery. In 1853 Mr. Harper and Stephen Gross established the Whitby Planing Mill and Sash Factory at the south west corner of Brock Street and Mary Street. Mr. …

      James Dryden was born at Sunderland, England in April 1806 and while an infant moved with his parents to Walsingham in the county of Durham, UK. The family settled in Whitby Township in 1820 and in 1832 James Dryden established a farm of two hundred acres on lot 19, concession …

      David A. Brown was born in Whitby Township on September 12, 1847. About 1873 he went into partnership with David Leslie Briggs. After teh store burned down in 1889, he joined with his partner David L. Briggs and his brother Sylvester E. Briggs in the Steele-Briggs seed company in Toronto. …

      Mrs. Jeremiah Palmer (Mary Ann Washer) was born in Darlington Township in 1831. She and Jeremiah W. Palmer married. After her husbands death in 1897, Mary Ann moved to Toronto. She died at Lauder, Manitoba on April 19, 1906 and is buried in Groveside Cemetery, Brooklin. Jeremiah W. Palmer was …

      Condition: two copies available - the print is very good; whereas the copy negative is only good.

      Thomas Hobson was married to Jane Jackson at Dublin, Ireland on July 11, 1844. In 1848, he emigrated from Hackettstown, Ireland to Whitby, Canada and settled on the north side of Watson Street East at Port Whitby. He was likely born in Ireland and likely died at Port Whitby, on …

      William Heron Sr. was born at Wighton Shire, Scotland, on January 12, 1792. Jane Crawford was born at Dailly, Ayr Shire, Scotland in June 1796. Together they came to Canada in the 1840s and settled near Ashburn on lot 29, concession 9, Whitby Township. They called their home Dalmore Farm. …

      John Campbell was born at Newark, New Jersey on June 2, 1794. His father, Hugh Campbell, served as a British soldier in the American Revolutionary War and settled at Kingston about 1796. John Campbell was elected to Parliament for the County of Frontenac in 1830 and moved to Whitby Township …

      Hannah Bicknell, daughter of Nathan Bicknell, was born in New York State in 1798. She and John Campbell were married in 1816 at Napanee, Upper Canada. They settled in Whitby Township in 1832 and became leading citizens of Brooklin, where John Campbell operated a mill and general store. Mrs. Campbell …

      Adeline Blair was born possibly at Guildhall, Vermont, U.S.A. in 1825. She was first married to Robert Morrow of Whitby Township, and secondly to William Wiggins Caldwell.

      William Warren was born at Kinsale, County Cork, Ireland, on October 18, 1800 and came to Whitby Township with his brother John Borlase Warren in 1821. They farmed on the third concession for about a year and opened a store at Hamer's Corners in 1823. He married Clarissa Lynde on …

      Yeoman Gibson was born at Ebberston, Yorkshire, England, on March 21, 1828 and came to Whitby in 1847. He started out as a clerk and bookkeeper and then went into the grocery business for himself in 1857. He was a strong supporter of the Methodist Church and presented a silver …