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      The Whitby Collegiate Institute was built in 1873 and was located on the south side of Colborne Street between King and Centre Streets. The school was demolished in 1975-1976.

      This barn was located between Ashburn and the Whitby-Pickering Town Line.

      This house is located at the south-east corner of Whinchester Road (Concession 6) and Garrard Road (lot 18, Concession 5).

      John Blow’s store was located at 145 Brock Street South. This brick store was built in 1883 at the north east corner of Brock and Colborne Streets. At the time this picture was taken it was operated as a coal and salt depot and express and telegraph office by John …

      The Ashburn School was located at 780 Myrtle Road West. It was built about 1861 on the north side of the 9th Concession of Whitby Township west of Ashburn Road. It was built by a stone mason named Pearson. Since 1967 this building has been used as a community centre.

      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 …

      This house was located at Lot 25, Concession 8, Whitby.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 …

      May Irwin was a Canadian singer, songwriter, and comic performer who enjoyed popularity and prestige on the American stage from the late 1890s until the end of the 1910s. Key to Irwin’s popularity was her role as a “coon-shouter” and a performer of “coon songs,” deeply racist forms that emerge …

      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 …

      The Ontario Hotel was located at 124 Brock Street North (at the north west corner of Brock and Elm Streets). Alex Whitelaw was the first caretaker of the Whitby Post Office when it opened in 1910. He had one arm and was a travelling salesman for the Buckle Factory. The …

      Reverend Christopher Roles Bell was rector of St. John's Church from 1873 to 1876.

      William Sinclair was born at the Parish of Culter, Lanarkshire, Scotland, on July 11, 1810, and came to Canada in 1833. He was hired by local farmers in Whitby Township for a few years and for 14 years farmed on his own at Almonds. In 1861 he settled on lot …

      Margaret Prentice was born in the parish of Crawford-John, Lanarkshire, Scotland, in 1812. She married William Sinclair in Scotland in 1833. The Sinclairs came to Whitby in 1833 and resided at Almonds until 1861 when they purchased Glenrath Farm at lot 18, Broken Front Concession, Whitby Township. This farm was …

      Oddfellows Hall was built in 1873-1875 on the east side of Brock Street north of Dundas Street and demolished in 1964.

      John Dryden was born on June 5, 1840 on Maple Shade Farm (a successful 200-acre property near the village of Winchester (Brooklin) at the north east corner of Thickson Road and the 7th Concession, Whitby Township, Upper Canada. He was the son of James Dryden and Elizabeth Marsh. He married …

      James Rutledge was born on July 12, 1842 in Darlington Township. He was educated at Bowmanville High School and received a Bachelor of Arts degree (B.A.) from the University of Toronto in 1864. From 1869 - 1882 James Rutledge was a partner with J.E. Farewell in Whitby and started his …

      James Benjamin Bickell was born in the parish of Stowford, Devonshire, England, on December 7, 1826 and came to Canada at age 17, in 1843. His family settled in the vicinity of Peterborough and later farmed in Mariposa Township. James Benjamin Bickell then settled at Bowmanville and went into the …

      Ontario Ladies' College is now known as Trafalgar Castle School, and is located at 401 Reynolds Street.

      This is a black and white photograph of a group of unidentified students posing for a picture.

      The passageway to the Cottage was built in 1887.