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      Larry Cond was born at Trenton on 30 September 1916. He served during the Second World War for the Royal Canadian Navy on the HMCS Spikenard and HMCS Ottawa. Following the war, Cond was employed by Canadian Industries Ltd. in Oakville and served three years on Trafalgar Township Council. In …

      Willard Dodd was born at Chapleau, Ontario in 1902.He moved to Whitby in 1950 from Kingston to become the district manager for the Empire Life Insurance Company. He retired in 1959 after 40 years of service. Dodd was a member of Whitby Town Council from 1953-1959 and vice president of …

      Terrance Moore was born at Toronto in 1920 and grew up in Weston. He attended Upper Canada College and served during the Second World War in Britain and the Middle East as a navigator with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He received is law degree from Osgoode Hall and in …

      John Harkness was born at Whitby in 1913. From 1937-1972 he was a supervisor at the Ontario Hospital and in the 1950s and 1960s he was president of the Civil Service Association at the Hospital. Harkness was the founding president of the Port Whitby Ratepayers' Association and managed a ladies' …

      Donald Gilchrist was born at Whitby on 2 July 1916. From 1957-1967 he worked for the Department of Public Works at Ontario Hospital and later became its accountant until he retired in 1981. For ten years he was a volunteer fire fighter with the Whitby Fire Department. Gilchrist was involved …

      John Moss was born in Liverpool on 2 April 1909. He was sent to Canada as an orphan to live in a home established by British doctor and philanthropist, Dr. Thomas Barnardo. Moss was sent to a farm near Belleville in 1920 and came to the Whitby area in 1922. …

      John Franklin Batty was born near Brooklin on 14 October 1915 and took over the family farm, Crescent Stock Farm, in 1931, raising Clydesdale horses and Jersey cattle. He was a breeder, exhibitor, and livestock judge. In 1954-55, Batty was president of the Clydesdale Horse Association of Canada and its …

      Harold Mace was born in Toronto 16 August 1915 and came to Whitby in 1938 to work as an attendant at the Ontario Hospital. By the 1940s, he was president of the Whitby Branch of the Civil Service Association of Ontario and from 1951 to 1958 he was District Director …

 Unknown, Whitby Weekly News, ca.1960     Edward Coath was born at Toronto on 26 August 1931. He graduated from the University of Toronto in 1954 and from Osgoode Hall in 1958. In 1959, Coath moved to Whitby to open a law office and was appointed to the Queen's Counsel in 1971. Coath was a member of …

 Unknown, Oshawa Times, 1960     Robert Nicholson was born at Whitby on 22 April 1890. At the age of 16 he joined the staff at the Martin Manufacturing Company (buckle factory)and was one of the company's last three employees when it closed in 1964. Nicholson was also a music teacher from 1907 to 1955, choir …

 Unknown, Oshawa Times, August 1960     William Hewis was born at Hamer's Corners (Dundas and Anderson Streets) on 8 August 1865. He worked at his father's butcher on Brock St. S. and in 1882 he and his brother, George, took over the business. They moved the butchers to the McMillan Block (later called Hewis Block) at …

 Unknown, Oshawa Times, September 1960     John Cormack was born at Whitby on 19 July 1892. He worked as a stationary engineer at Ontario Ladies' College from 1910 until the 1950s and received an award from the school for his 40 years of service. Cormack was also a member of the Whitby Bras Band. Participating from …

 Unknown, Whitby Weekly News, ca.1960     Maxwell Rich was born at Little Britain, ON on 23 February 1919. He was a service manager at Whitby Motors Ltd. and its successor, H. Dick Pontiac-Buick, and later at Gus Brown Motors. Rich died at Ajax on 21 December 2003 and is buried at Mount Lawn Cemetery.