Résultats

      This chair while called a barber chair appears to be more of an early office chair perhaps for a telephone operator.

      This was one of two units in the Canadian Expeditionary Force that recruited from Grey County, along with the 248th unit.

      1915 pitcher made from an 84mm shell used in an 18-pounder field gun.

      The Charles Kempthorne Residence was located at the south-east corner of Highway 2 and the Whitby-Pickering town line. It was part of the community of Almonds. The house was demolished in March 1969. Charles Kempthorne was a blacksmith at Almonds.

      The Lynde farm, also called Maple Dell Farm, was located on Concession 4 east of Coronation Road in Whitby Township.

      This frame house was built by Henry Hannam (1811-1873) about 1853 and was demolished in December 2000 after a number of renovations had been made. At the time of this photograph the house was occupied by his son Alfred Hannam (1858-1943). The house was located on lot 22 of Concession …

      This brick house was built for John Allin before 1877 on lot 23 of Broken Front Concession in Whitby Township. It was demolished in 1980.

      This brick house was built for John Bradley in 1864. It was located on lot 25 of Concession 5 in Whitby Township. The house was later owned by Thomas Coakwell and William Franklin Batty. The veranda around the house was destroyed by Hurricane Hazel in October 1954. This house was …

      The station was on the south side of the track. It was built in 1913 and closed in 1971 being demolished in 1977.

      John H. Reble (1887-1975) was a Lutheran pastor who served as President of the Canada Synod from 1945 to 1953. John Reble was born in Kropp, Germany on December 14, 1887. He was educated at Kropp Seminary, moved to Canada in 1909. Reble was ordained in Hamilton, Ontario in 1909. …

      Annual Report for 1915 of the Waterloo Public Library.

      An assessment roll is a public record of taxable property. The headings for each column on a page is listed under full text.

 Shortt, Rev. C.H., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1915), 8 Apr 1915, 134-142     The speaker's experience living in Japan for the last 14 years. The difficulty of generalising about a nation of 54 million people with such a long history. The speaker's good luck to have been in almost the whole of "the sixty-six provinces," and to have met a great many different …

 Sommerville, Norman, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1915), 12 Apr 1915, 143-155     [This address given under the auspices of The Empire Club of Canada, Exhibition Military Camp, Toronto.] The speaker's experiences in Austria and Germany after the outbreak of war. Last year to have been Germany's great year; the year of years in which Germany was on exhibition, whether in the field …

 Dent, J.M., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1915), 15 Apr 1915, 156-165     A picture of the Homeland at this time. One or two cases which bear striking evidence to the long determination and preparation of Germany for the war in which they have involved the world. The inward life of England. The reaction of the English people when war was declared. A …

 O'Hagan, Thos., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1915), 22 Apr 1915, 166-172     A story which makes appeal to humanity. The story of a little kingdom, a small people before whom last July there lay two courses, the one leading to peace, preservation, and dishonour, the other leading to the horrors and devastations of the most unhallowed war that has ever enveloped the …

 Rowell, N.W., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1915), 29 Apr 1915, 173-182     The great conflict in which we are engaged. Two of the ideals back of this war, expressed and exemplified by the German Empire on the one side and the British Empire on the other. The ideals of militarism as domination and conquest by the power of the sword, its watchword …

 Riddell, Hon. W.R., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1915), 6 May 1915, 190-196     The difficult in determining the real causes of the present war. The invasion of Belgium. The war in any case inevitable, and how that was so. The real and efficient cause of the war to be found in the ideals of the Prussian governing class, and the irreconcilable conflict between …

 Harper, Dr. J.M., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1915), 6 May 1915, 197-207     The need for the war that is on in Europe at the present moment to be fought out to a finish with the Hohenzollerns of Germany. The need to deal with the militant marauders of Germany as were the pirates and ruthless iconoclasts of old. Taking up the plea for …

 Boyd, Commissioner E.J., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1915), 6 May 1915, 208-216     The work of the Juvenile Court, practically speaking, to make men who will be fitted for anything that may life in front of them in life, and to make men out of material that is not always the easiest to work with. The establishment of the Court some three years …