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      Early surveyors, like William E. Logan, used Rochon micrometer telescopes and targets (disk on a calibrated pole) to measure distance. Each microscope had a different calibration and therefore a different range. The instruments were calibrated against a distance measured with a surveyors chain (also known as Gunter’s chain). One chain …

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      Commencée sous le ministère du Curé Guillaume en 1876, cette église fut démolie et remplacée par l'église actuelle en 1891.

      Il est situé en face de l'église actuelle. Il a été construit en 1856. Il s'agit du plus ancien édifice connu d'Embrun. Il a d’abord servi de première chapelle avant d’être converti en presbytère en 1864. Une partie fut convertie en couvent à l'arrivée des Soeurs Grises-de-la-Croix en 1887. L'autre …

      Condition: Very good. Yellowed and aged, but looks pretty good.

      A black and white photograph of a group of men at a lodge meeting on the third floor of the building at the north east corner of Brock Street and Dundas Street. No information is available on what lodge this is or who is in the picture.

      Efforts to put together a Whitby Brass Band were started in 1863 and attempts were made to secure public funding. In June 1863, town council decided that it was not advisable "to appropriate any money for the purpose of organizing a band in this town." (Whitby Chronicle, June 4, 1863). …

      A black and white photograph of the Whitby Young Men's Club members. In the front are two small light coloured dogs. Back Row: E. Ray; William E. Hewis; Wess Anorrish; Anthony Bandel. Middle Row: W. Greening; Charles Stevens; John Foley. Front Row: William Wilkinson; Charles Roberts.

      Thomas Paxton was born in Whitby Township in 1821 and in 1847 was one of the founders of Port Perry. He was a businessman in that community for many years. He was Reeve of Reach Township when the Provisional Council of the County of Ontario was formed in 1852 and …

      St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church was built as the Church of Scotland in 1859 at 508 Byron Street South. It served as a Presbyterian church until 1968 when a new church on Cochrane Street was opened.

      This photograph is unidentified, but it may be a photo of a Sunday school group from St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church.

      Members of this Whitby Fire Brigade were volunteers.

      James Tinwell Thompson, sexton of All Saints' Anglican Church, died on January 10, 1884 at Whitby, and was buried on January 12, 1884 in St. John's Anglican Cemetery. This gravestone disappeared before 1971 and the grave is now unmarked.

      All Saints' Anglican Church was built in 1865-66 at 300 Dundas Street West. This photograph was taken in W.E. O'Brien's studio in Whitby.

      This photograph shows the extreme terrain construction crews had to deal with in construction rail lines across Canada. Rock had to be blasted and then hauled out of the way. This photograph also appears in the books 'Building the Railway' by Rosemary Neering, Fitzhenry and Whiteside c1974, and in 'Railways …

      Also P3465

      Soldiers pose on a CPR train at Port Arthur, Ontario in 1885. They are en route to Saskatchewan to aid in the suppression of Riel's North West Rebellion. Troops that used the rail-lines at this time faced arduous travel through the many gaps in the line before they could reach …

      Also P3472

      A street scene, in 1885, looking down Brown St. into what is now Westfort (Town Plot) and toward Mount McKay.

      A group portrait at the First Annual Shuniah and St. George Snowshoe Race, March 17, 1885, Port Arthur, Ontario.