Résultats

      A photograph of a pediment in the Tippecanoe County Courthouse in Lafayette, IN, USA featuring statues of William Henry Harrison, Lafayette and Tecumseh; sometimes identified as George Rogers Clark, George Washington and Tecumseh. constructed in the 1880s.

      Photo of Halfway House on Highway 2 near McEwan Road, Hamilton Township. Source: Women’s Institute Acquired: May 5, 2005

      Photo and some notes about Hagerman’s Corners located on Lot 28, Concession 2 on the south east corner of Dale Road and Theatre Road. Source: Women’s Institute Acquired: May 5, 2005

      Article about the Williamson House on Lot 24, Concession 4, Hamilton Township. Source: Women’s Institute Acquired: May 5, 2005

      “Former Chief Dead at 74” George Wright, a founding member of the Trafalgar Township Fire Department and its chief for 20 years, died recently at the Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital. He was 74 years of age. Wright was appointed deputy chief of the department on its formation in 1939 and …

      "Cobourg & Peterborough Railway Company. Harwood Station, 20 November 1860. Received from Mr. Henry Fowlds in apparent good order, to be delivered at Cobourg subject to the Regulations established by Tariff. 220 bags flour and forwarded to Alex Pratt, Cobourg."...

      Ethel and Eckhardt were part of a double wedding on this day. Ethel's sister Mary Grace married Harry Leedham at the same time. Eckhardt was the youngest son of Elizabeth and George Wettlaufer who had moved their family to farm in Trafalgar Township in about 1896. Their farm was called …

      St. Luke’s Anglican Church, Palermo, built 1845, is now being raised and a foundation will be built under it. Surrounding it is a quaint country churchyard in which tombstones bear the names of pioneer families of Palermo, sheltered by pine trees whose bare roots reach out like gnarled hands.

      Stanley Wood, husband of Ethel, had owned and run the Palermo general store. After Stanley's death, Mac and Myrtle McGill took it over.

      Mrs Ada Hill, a prominent resident of Palermo, through playing music entirely by ear, has marked ability in that line. She can and has filled in when the pianist of an orchestra form the city failed to turn up. She is a past president of the Palermo Women’s Institute, a …

      The Palermo general store, W.P. Sargent, grocer.

      A Time for Romance… and invitations (Oakville Journal) Kay Craig

      Debby Graydon and Janet Lees (Centre) are two of more than a score of OTHS feminine students who are assisting recreation director Jack Ross at the day camp and eleven playgrounds in the area. Leslie and Wendy Cherington seem to feel that Debby and Janet are definitely tops. Many among …

      Forty members of Alpha Beta sorority were at Oakville Service stations, washing cars to raise money for Cancer Fund Campaign. Isabel Agnew, Wendy Milne, Valerie Wakelin, Jane Ovens, Janet Lees, and Sheena Craig.

      Official Opening of Thomas A. Blakelock High School, Thursday, Mar. 27, 1958.

      Official Opening of Thomas A. Blakelock High School, Thursday, Mar. 27, 1958. Thomas A. Blakelock Two feet of snow and biting wind greeted a Yorkshire lad of twenty-two when he stepped off the train in Toronto on a March day in 1906. Equipped with a kit of carpenter’s tools, ninety …

      Official Opening of Thomas A. Blakelock High School, Thursday, Mar. 27, 1958.

      Official Opening of Thomas A. Blakelock High School, Thursday, Mar. 27, 1958.

      A letter written by Governor Porter Lowrey Source: Unknown Acquired: October 2007 WRITTEN BY GROSVENOR PORTER LOWREY TO HIS SECOND WIFE, NEE KATE ARMOUR, 121 MADISON AVENUE, NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 16th, 1886 PRINTED ON FRINGED WHITE SATIN. (I've been told G.P.I. could charm a bird out of a tree). Dear …

      U-Boat Sinkings: Caribbean Area H.M.C.S. "Oakville Sinks U-94"