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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.

      Please look through all the pages to your right of unknown photos of family members in the Wilkinson Norton Family Album. They are most likely relatives of Robert Wilkinson of Palermo and Louisa Norton of Saltfleet.

      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.

      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 …

      Early land registry records and Trafalgar census records from 1851, 1871, 1881 use the family surname spelling, "Hagar". However, the 1861 census and the family gravestones in the Palermo cemetery use the spelling "Hager". Please research under both spellings.

      Because this clearly shows the bridge having 4 supports, it is likely the bridge over the Sixteen between Cornwall Road to the south and Cross Avenue on the north, just west of Trafalgar Road.

      In the early 1900s the Independent Order of Foresters or I.O.F. chose Oakville as the location for their orphans' home. It was located at 53 Bond Street. The home was part of their plan to care for children of deceased members.

      John Bingham Colton was the son of Jacob and Mary Ann Colton.

      George William Colton 1856-1907 Lot 3 Concession 4, Omagh

      James was born in Halton County in 1885 but later moved to Woodbridge which is where this farm was located. The sketch was done by a friend of the family.

      Guy was the son of Hannah and John Bussell. They are buried at St. Stephen's Anglican Church, Hornby, Trafalgar Township.

      The 1881 Census spelling of Post is "Poast". Thompson Egbert, son of Ephraim and Jane, is listed as "Thomas" and in the 1871 Census, Ephraim is spelled "Ephrom". A relay of horses was kept at the Inn for the mail coach. On the same property, behind the Inn, there was …

      This intersection was called Post's Corners, later Postville.

      A link to the Heritage Mississauga information on the lost village of McCurdy's Corners and the arrival of the Bussell family is provided here for your further information.

      Children’s choir, Palermo United church, Palermo, Ont. Mrs Darlington on the organ, Ethel Wettlaufer directing. The girl at top left is Janice Bullock. Her brother Murray is in the second row on the far right. April 6th.

      Thanks to several people commenting on this photograph, we are slowly adding names. Front Row, sitting: 2nd from left wearing a tie is Kenneth Vivian, Tim King is at the far right end of the row. 2nd Row, kneeling: the child second from the left is Sandra Brown with Monica …

      It has been suggetsed this is actually. ROBERT COVERDALE (1824-1906) and not HARMON HENRY INGLEHART (1827- 1917 ) 5th child and second son of John Peter Inglehart and Elizabeth (Betsy) Fisher and husband of Helen Biggar (1798 - 1870), daughter of William Biggar and Rebecca Glover. Harmon Henry was born …

      Alfred Inglehart was the oldest son (second child) of William Cyrus Inglehart and Mary Bray. He was born Jan. 15 1852, died July 19, 1940, in Burlington. On June 29, 1929, he married Mary Ellen Ford, (1865-1957, daughter of Andrew Ford and Mary Featherstone. Mary Ellen was the widow of …

      From the collection of Ruth Baldwin Inglehart Kelly.

      Matthew Durant.Fourth daughter of Herbert Inglehart and Margaret Elvira Coverdale Marion was born 11 August 1907, Bronte, Ontario, died 19 August 1992, Eden House Care Facility, Eden Mills, Ontario. She married Melville Hicks, about 1927 - 28, and divorced. He died before 1992. Marion married (2) Matthew Durrant , after …