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      The front cover is missing from this linen book for children published in 1895 but the title is, "The ABC of Animals". A few pages as well as the back cover are shown. This paper book was owned by the Smith family who settled and farmed Lot 34, Con 1 …

      Canada Games was formed in 1886 by its British parent, Copp Clark.

      In another TTHS digital record, you can read the essay written in about 1902 that Dr. Anson Buck wrote on the history of Palermo in Trafalgar Township. About one of the major village businesses, the Palermo Creamery, he wrote "In the year 1895 Harry Heeks established a creamery and ran …

      A list of the honourary members of the (London, England) Royal Geographical Society as at September 30, 1921 includes in its list, "Greenly, Major-Gen. Walter Howorth, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O. Titley Court, Herefordshire ; and Trail Farm, Palermo, Ontario."

      The village of Palermo was at the intersection of Dundas Street and Old Bronte Road. The Palermo community is referenced back in the 1841 census. Palermo is one of the many Halton name connections to the life and times of Lord Horatio Nelson, British Admiral (1758-1805). Nelson was in Palermo, …

      As early as 1817, settlers in Trafalgar Township were proud of their butter and cheese making businesses. In 1817, Robert Fleming Gourlay, a Scot whose sympathy lay with farmers, not British government and who had previously provided information on the poor in the United Kingdom at the request of the …

      This paper book was owned by the Smith family who settled and farmed Lot 34, Con 1 SDS (near Palermo) in the 1800's through to the early 1970's when the farm was expropriated for Bronte Provincial Creek Park. Only those pages shown here were photographed; the whole catalogue was not …