Résultats

      Sinclair School was built on the north side of Concession 4 (Taunton Road) east of Garden Street in 1874. It was used as a school until it closed in 1979. Sinclair School was demolished in 1992.

      Black and white negative of a photograph of the Guthrie family. The photograph appears to have been taken in a parlour. Back row: William Henry Guthrie, Henry Madill, Miles Chapman, Florence Chapman. Middle row: Ira Lawrence, Edyth Guthrie, Sadie Guthrie. Front row: Winnie Chapman.

      Composite displays 84 business and professional men. Each portrait was taken individually and then pasted onto a backdrop. It was then rephotographed. Underneath the the portrait photographs are three photographs of Whitby landmarks. On the left is Burr Lodge which was located at Centre and James Streets. Jeffrey Flats at …

      Sylvester E. Briggs was born in Whitby Township, east of Myrtle, on April 10, 1846. He moved to Toronto in 1873 and joined the firm of Steele Brothers with R.C. Steele with whom he had worked in Oshawa. The company became the Steele-Briggs Seed Company in 1900 and Sylvester E. …

      The Methodist Tabernacle was built in 1875-76 at 201 Centre Street South. It became the Whitby United Church in 1925 and St. Mark's United Church in 1962. This photograph was copied by Thomas Bouckley Collection, Oshawa.

      Joseph King was born at Prague, Austria-Hungary, on November 4, 1835. In 1863 he came to Whitby where he and his brother Charles established the King Brothers' Tannery. In 1866 he did sentry duty at Whitby Harbor during the Fenian Raid scare. In 1883 he left Whitby and moved to …

      Charles King was born at Prague, Austria-Hungary in 1837. In 1857, he joined his brother Joseph in New York for five years and then met up with Joseph in Whitby, Ontario. Together Joseph and Charles bought out the former proprietor of the tannery and founded the King Brothers' Tannery at …

      Mrs. Thomas Jackson (Mary Ellen Wilson), was born in Ireland in 1841 and lived at Port Whitby. She died at Whitby on March 2, 1923 and was the mother of Albert Wilson Jackson, an important political figure in Whitby. Mrs. Jackson is buried at St. John's Anglican Cemetery, Port Whitby.

      George Tait Mathison, son of David and Elizabeth Mathison, was born in Ontario about 1862. He died at Whitby on December 27, 1929 and is buried at Union Cemetery, Oshawa.

      Margaret Eliza Foote, daughter of Dr. Jonathan Foote of Brooklin, was born on July 20, 1842. She married Dr. Henry Warren at Whitby Township on September 28, 1864. After Dr. Warren died on July 11, 1872, Mrs. Warren lived for many years at Orillia. She died at Toronto on May …

      Joel Bigelow was born in Tecumseh Township, near Newmarket, Upper Canada, November 9, 1828 and came to Whitby in the 1850s. He was a twin brother of Joseph Bigelow, one of the founders of Port Perry. On April 18, 1856, he married Mary Ann Dryden, daughter of James Dryden, at …

      Mrs. Joel Bigelow (Mary Ann Dryden), daughter of James Dryden of Whitby Township was born in 1830. She married Joel Bigelow, a Whitby merchant, in 1856. Together they left Whitby in 1864 and in 1866 they settled in Chicago where they remained the rest of their lives. Mrs. Bigelow died …

      Mathias Whitney Collins was born in Frontenac County, Canada West on December 23, 1859. He came to Whitby in 1871 where his uncle, Matthew B. Collins was a shoemaker. He and Ada Emily Bryan of Whitby were married at St. James' Cathedral in Toronto on March 27, 1889. Mr. Collins …

      Sylvester Earl Briggs was born in Whitby Township, east of Myrtle, on April 10, 1846. He moved to Toronto in 1873 and joined Steele Brothers firm with R.C. Steele. R.C. Steele and S.E. Briggs were coworkers in Oshawa prior to joining the firm. In 1900, the company became the Steele …

      William James Luke was born at Whitby on September 29, 1859. He was a member of the Public Utilities Commission of Whitby for 28 years, retiring in 1934. He was a member of the town council, a prominent Mason and secretary-treasurer of the Methodist Tabernacle Sunday School. He worked for …

      This frame house was built between 1875 and 1880 by Andrew M. Ross (1851-1936) at the south-west corner of King and Colborne Streets (at 401 Colbourne Street West). Mr. Ross was a dry goods merchant in Whitby and a former mayor of the Town. His daughter, Miss Marcia Ross (1889-1979) …

      May Irwin was a Canadian singer, songwriter, and comic performer who enjoyed popularity and prestige on the American stage from the late 1890s until the end of the 1910s. Key to Irwin’s popularity was her role as a “coon-shouter” and a performer of “coon songs,” deeply racist forms that emerge …

      Flo Irwin was the sister of May Irwin, a broadway performer born in Whitby, Ontario. May Irwin was a Canadian singer, songwriter, and comic performer who enjoyed popularity and prestige on the American stage from the late 1890s until the end of the 1910s. Key to Irwin’s popularity was her …

      The Frances Hall at Ontario Ladies' College was named for Lillian Frances Massey after her father, Hart Massey, donated ten thousand dollars to build an addition to the College. Lillian Frances Massey laid the corner stone for Frances Hall on June 19, 1895 and attended the opening of Frances Hall …

      The Ashburn School was located at 780 Myrtle Road West. It was built about 1861 on the north side of the 9th Concession of Whitby Township west of Ashburn Road. It was built by a stone mason named Pearson. Since 1967 this building has been used as a community centre.