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      Ross Johnston was born near Gretna Green in Dumfrieshire, Scotland on August 3, 1827. His parents died when he was a child and he was brought up and raised by his grandfather. The family moved to the Eastern Townships of Quebec in 1841 and to Whitby in 1848. Mr. Johnston …

      Frederick Samuel Allin was born at Whitby Township on May 16, 1874. He was the first station master at the new Whitby Junction station in 1903. He died at Oshawa on December 28, 1933 and is buried at Union Cemetery, Oshawa.

      Dr. Robert John Gunn was born on February 14, 1815 at Caithness, Scotland. He came to Canada in the autumn of 1842 and settled in Whitby where he was a physician and surgeon for 58 years. He was mayor of Whitby in 1862 and 1867-1868. He died at Whitby on …

      Andrew Miller Ross was born at Edinburgh, Scotland on October 9, 1851 and came to Whitby in 1856. As a young man he moved to Rockford, Illinois where he was married in 1875. He returned to Whitby about 1879 where he worked as a dry goods merchant for over forty …

      Dr. Robert John Gunn was born on February 14, 1815 at Caithness, Scotland. He came to Canada in the autumn of 1842 and settled in Whitby where he was a physician and surgeon for 58 years. He was mayor of Whitby in 1862 and 1867-1868. He died at Whitby on …

      A view of the first two Syndicate houses being 60 and 71 Bower (left) with 75 and 77 Bower Avenue. There are five Syndicate semi-detached buildings built in 1882.

      Étretat is a small seaside town flanked by dramatic chalk cliffs about 26 kilometres north of Le Havre on the Upper Normandy coast. It was the location of a British General Base Hospital for five years during World War I.

      Étretat is a small seaside town flanked by dramatic chalk cliffs about 26 kilometres north of Le Havre on the Upper Normandy coast. It was the location of a British General Base Hospital for five years during World War I.

      A cabestan is a wooden winch used to manually haul a boat onto a beach. Two long wooden poles are inserted into holes in the vertical post. Groups of people push and pull the poles clockwise while another person winds the cable from the boat. To the right of the …

      Étretat is a small seaside town flanked by dramatic chalk cliffs about 26 kilometres north of Le Havre on the Upper Normandy coast. It was the location of a British General Base Hospital for five years during World War I. The seaside L’Hotel des Roches Blanches was converted to this …

      Étretat is a small seaside town flanked by dramatic chalk cliffs about 26 kilometres north of Le Havre on the Upper Normandy coast. It was the location of a British General Base Hospital for five years during World War I.

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      A piece of farm machinery being pulled by 2 horses. A man sits on the machine and another man stands in front of it.

      A watercoloured photograph of King St. Beamsville (Reg. Rd 81) looking east.

      See reverse for correspondence and postage stamp. Postmarked 1900.

      The town hall was located on the south west corner of Richmond and Simcoe streets. The Williams Piano Works was located on Richmond Street at Church Street (now Centre street.

      Main Street, Georgetown looking north; taken from the Knox Presbyterian Church bell tower.

      An earlier church pre-dated this structure which was built in 1896. Earliest mention of the church is 1877.

      Cobourg had developed a ‘House of Refuge’ near the corner of James and George streets in the early 1890s. The home took in the elderly, indigent and destitute of the community. Soon there was a need for a hospital and a portion of the home was turned over to that …

      In 1856, Ebenezer Perry sold this corner property to the Bank of Montreal who then built this building around 1860. In 1881, it was conveyed to W. D. Burn who sold it to the Crown in December 1882 and it became the Cobourg Post Office. In 1889, after the addition …