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      The brick engine house is located at 400 Mary Street East on the north-east corner of Mary and Hickory Streets. It was built in 1876 to replace an engine house that burned down in 1875. The building was altered in the 1960s and made into a garage.

      Early morning at Pakwash Bay, 1946. These cabins were used to house the highway construction crews for the Red Lake highway that opened August 17, 1947. The camp at Pakwash Bay housed 100 men on the gravel shore of Pakwash Lake. Five hundred men were hired through Manpower (Federal Employment …

      David Jacques Kean was born at Gambridge in Thorah Township on 1 April 1884. He taught school at Sonya before entering railway work in Toronto. On 15 March 1919, he was appointed Road Superintendent for Ontario County and moved to Whitby where he had an office in the Court House. …

      "Harvey on Main St. Iron Bridge, circa 1946. Harvey and Mary (McLean)Allen were married 56 years before he died in 2008. They were married on Sept. 30 ,1952. This photo can be found in the Gardiner/Allen Scrapbook 1700's-1954.

      This group of men are in the tunnels under the old water tower. The water tower was built in 1904 and was demolished in 1950. Another water tower was built in Kinsmen Park in 1947 and demolished in September 1979. Today there is no water tower in Whitby.

      The children in this photo have a cross marked on their foreheads. This may be because it is traditional custom in the catholic religion to have an ashen cross marked on one's forehead at the beginning of Lent (40 days before Good Friday).

      Myrtle school was built in 1880 on the south side of the 9th Concession of Whitby Township, a short distance west of Highway 12. It was a board and batten building covered with insubrick in the late 1940s. In July 1940 the building was raised and a basement was built …

      Black and white negative showing a trophy presentation at a hockey banquet held in the Legion Hall. The young man accepting the trophy on the right is Les Moore, he was the captain of the Whitby Junior C team that won the Ontario Championship.

      Another copy of this postcard (in another collection) has "1946" written on the lower margin. However, by 1946 the trees seen in this view of lower Brant Street had been cut down, and the cars on the road were of more recent vintage.

      Gerald Bracey was born at Oshawa on August 26, 1929, and he moved to Whitby in 1936. He attended the Whitby High School where he was a champion athlete, specializing in running. He won the Langevin Cup for the quarter mile race three times, 1945-1947. He competed in local, provincial …

      The Honour Roll commemorates Oakville servicemen William Archibald; Edward Ashbury; George Atkins; James Bedlington; Patrick Blackham; Lorne Bray; Nat. Buchanan; Roland Montgomery Bull; Ralph Emerson Featherstone; Arthur Butler; Jackson Cook; Richard Dowding; Laurie Dynes; Harry P. Farr; Bruce Fox; Charles Duncan Bremner Green; Charles Herson; Bill Marshall; Kenneth Kemp; John …

      The caption underneath the photograph reads "Grade 8 in 1946 included these young scholars: Front row, Ken Shannon, Keith Fay, Joe Nova, John Willmott, Keith Akins, Don Mills, Roy Wilson. Second row, Helen Heslop, Jo-Ann McKay, Patsy Teasdale, Merle Thompson, Mary Gooch, Alice Tight, Betty Allen, Joan Harris. Third row, …

      The caption underneath the photograph reads "Grade 7 was pictured in 1946 in this photo loaned by Mrs. Merle Mitchell (June Mountain). In the front row are Ron Marshall, Bob Cross, Ken Buck, Harvey Pettigrew, Irwin DeForest, Jack Smillie, Dennis Marchand, Ron Ryder, Keith Twiss. Second row, June Mountain, Donna …

      Mr. Peters (right), an accountant for Colner Fair, and unidentified man next to truck, Hemlock Park Farms, Kingston ON.

      McCormick-Deering WD-9 Diesel

      A landscape view of Hemlock Park Farms in Kingston, Ontario. Visible in the photo are a large house, barns and bird baths scattered across the lawn.

      IHC catalogue number: 89A

      IHC catalogue number: 72A

      Hemlock Dairy Ltd velvet ice cream factory.

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