Résultats

      View of Bronte beach from the water.

      Entrance to Bronte Park.

      Two buildings with Stoneboats to the right. The Stoneboats building is constructed with lakestone. Stoneboats were flat bottomed sleds used to haul stone over short distances.

      The Bronte Historical Society dates the building to about 1840 and they know the house was built by the Bray family of stone dredged from Lake Ontario called Dundas shale. A link to the BHS photograph of the family at the house is provided for your further information. Stonehooking to …

      This photograph was taken in March 1979.

      Petrie House, at the southwest corner Jones & Lakeshore Rd, in Bronte, 1979. Demolished in 1978-79. Under the photograph in this record is a link to another photograph of Petrie House and neighbouring Magnet Inn, taken happier days in 1974. Centriller Public School was across the street. Two people have …

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      In 2021, a family descendant was able to identify some of the family members in the photo: From L to R: Unknown, Leslie Mahlon Bray, Unknown, Kate Telford (née Bray), Rhoda Ann Bray (née Hinton), Unknown, Clara Ellen Bray (née Bleakly), Unknown, Lora Edna Reid later Ostrosser (née Bray). Boy …

      The Petrie house and Magnet Inn stood at the southwest corner of Jones and Lakeshore Road, Bronte. This photograph was taken in July or August 1974 by standing across the road in front of Centriller Public School, looking east to Jones Street. Both now demolished.

      Located in the Hopedale district of Bronte at Third Line and Rebecca Street. It was built as an open strip mall in 1959 with the development of the surrounding subdivision. In 1971, it was enclosed and became Hopedale Mall.

      #19, Edith Speers was absent when the photograph was taken; she was ill with diptheria. The photographer returned to later photograph the Baptist-Methodist picnic and photographed Edith. He attached her image to the class photo in his lab. Ross Wark notes that #2, Eliza Adams father owned a good deal …

      Ed Liptay Sr. purchased the farm from Harold Cooper in 1965. Harold Cooper, a dairy farmer, had purchased Trail Farm from Major-General Greenly in 1940. Major-General W.H. Greenly was an absentee owner and was owner of the farm by 1921. Clifford Samuel Jamieson was the Major-General Greenly's foreman at Trail …

      In December 1971, January 1972, Parks Canada photographed those buildings that were 100 or more years old. This Canadian Inventory of Heritage Buildings was a Centennial Project. The Trafalgar Township Historical Society has worked with Parks Canada and Library and Archives Canada to find these photographs in the area of …