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      The Whitby Junction Station was built at the foot of Byron Street on the Grand Trunk Railway in 1903 near the current GO Transit platform. In 1914, it was the scene of an unsolved murder. It closed in 1969 and in 1970 was moved to the north-east corner of Victoria …

      Whitby’s house numbering system was provided by Rev. Dr. James Roy Van Wyck (1877-1941), a retired Presbyterian minister. Van Wyck provided this service to the town, free of charge, during the Great Depression. By the summer of 1935, Whitby had a population of about 4,000 people and a house numbering …

      The present day address of the house is 6 Elgin Street, Galt, Ontario. The man and woman shown are believed to be William and Mary Gray. This postcard is part of the Gray Family Collection.

      Looking south on Brant Street towards Lake Ontario. On the right, at the southwest corner of Ontario Street, Dr Weaver's house. On the left, Dr Fraser, Dentist ( 2nd floor office); unidentified business; Burlington Bakery, which was owned and operated by Fred Keller.

      The photograph was taken in the school yard. The school is now a private home.

      Black and white postcard of George's Square with the Cenotaph in Oakville. The postcard inscription names the Square incorrectly, a commonly made mistake. George's Square is bounded by Trafalgar Road on the west, Palmer Avenue on the north, Sumner Avenue on the south and Reynolds Street on the east.

      Black and white postcard of the main lodge at the Knoepfli Inn at a earlier date. The building in the background of the image have not been built yet. Some of the additions to the main building itself have not been added yet either. There are a couple of automobiles …

      Black and white postcard of a waterfall coming down between walls of rock on either side. The Standard Chemical Company's smokestack can be seen in the background. Trees can be seen on the rocks on either side of the falls.

      Black and white postcard of a small waterfalls. There's no way to see where the water comes from. The water looks like its pooling. There's snow on the ground. There are trees behind the waterfalls. There's a man made structure in the trees, it could be a silo.

      Black and white postcard of the National Wood Factory in South River. There's a field leading into factory buildings. Some of the buildings have piles of wood made into planks.

      Black and white postcard of rapids and waterfalls. There's forest on either side of the river. There's also some rocks on either side of the river too. The rapids make a zig-zag pattern down a steep hill.

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      The technology embedded in today's digital camera photographs such as GPS location, compass orientation so we know which way the photographer was facing, date, even time of day will do more to help historians with these questions in the future.

      The Canadian Army Medical Corps operated its General Hospital No. 9 at Shorncliffe from Sept. 1917 to Dec. 1918. The General Hospital No. 11 operated there from Sept. 1917 to Sept. 1919.

      Rev. John Cameron (1817-1907) became the Presbyterian minister in Elmsdale, Nova Scotia in 1844. He moved his family from Nine Mile River in 1862 to a large home (not a manse) in Elmsdale the same year that Elmsdale Presbyterian Church was completed. Cameron practiced his sermons by bellowing them out …

      Looking west through downtown Beamsville. Telephone and hydro poles line both sides of the street. Two horse-drawn buggies are moving toward the camera.

      It has been suggested that this might be the Berlin & Bridgeport Street Railway line, with the sugar refinery (located at Maple and Arnold Streets) in the background and overhead trolley lines along the railway line.

      digital image from an original postcard.

      A laser print of an original postcard. The sign with the incorrect name Waterdown was changed to Aldershot ca 1918.