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      Information here has been taken from the Nelson Women's Institute Tweedsmuir History in which Palermo is covered in Book III, pages 41-87, which was prepared sometime about 1960. Also from the writing and documents in the collection of the Trafalgar Township Historical Society. A photograph of the Hall built in …

      A link to our record of the 1887 diary of her father, George, is provided for your further information.

      The minister was John Oakley, Amanda's uncle, a Baptist minister. Amanda had been born in Waterdown, East Flamborough (Ontario) and John in Lewiston, New York. John Foreman was named for his father. After his marriage, he was a major in the American Civil War and moved his family west to …

      The Oakville Historical Society, the Trafalgar Township Historical Society, the Bronte Historical Society and the Town of Oakville Heritage Planning Department have been able to assist.

      Please click on the MSWord document link on the right side of this page to open the pictoral text document. This document includes photographs of Orange Lawrence and wife Sarah Angelica (House) Lawrence, of their house as it was in 1911 and another of a stone wall fronting the house …

      In 1823, there was a great need for a school in the north east area of the Township of Trafalgar, Halton County. Land on the north side of Derry Road, backing onto the farm of the Richard Askin family, just west of Ninth Line was donated. The farms of Joseph …

      In 1823, there was a great need for a school in the north east area of the Township of Trafalgar, Halton County. Land on the north side of Derry Road, backing onto the farm of the Richard Askin family, just west of Ninth Line was donated. The farms of Joseph …

      The two page probate of the last will and testament of James Hopper, Trafalgar, 1854 with the first record image being the mailing envelope. As per the envelope, it was mailed to Mr. Jonathan Book, Palermo P.O. C.W. It was mailed at Hamilton in 1854. (C.W. stood for "Canada West".) …

      Colton The Funeral Of the late Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Colton will take place from their late residence Dundas St, Trafalgar, at 3:30 pm on Thursday, August 19th, 1897, to the town cemetery. Friends and acquaintances will please accept this intimation Mr and Mrs Colton were killed at the G.T.R. …

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      “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 …

      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.