Résultats

      Condition: Copy is very good.

      This photograph shows railway employees Val Lemieux and Myra Smilski standing in front of Engine 8407. Both women worked in the shop calling crews to work. The ladies were referred to as 'call girls' and men were referred to as 'call boys.' Today employees at this job are called crew …

      This Alter was removed when Father Panicka was the priest here along with the Assam brothers. There is are no remnants of it left, this would have been in the 1980's.

      This building was built in the early 1900s and changed hands often. It has been a bakery, furniture store and grocery store.

      condition: good, but slightly warped in places.

      Black and white photograph of the original Joy family homestead's front door. There are three trees in the foreground. The homestead looks like it is abandoned.

      The photograph was done by Joesph Ardiel. The hotel opened in 1887 and prospered as it was along the Grand Trunk Railway. The hotel burned down in 1909. The hotel boasted hot and cold baths, steam heat and electric lights. The rates were $1.00 to $1.50 a day.

      The picture is slightly out of focus.

      Notes indicate that Jack Creor lived on this site as of 1991.

      Black and white photograph of three people, Jim & Hilda McAmmond and June Mater, grabbing fish off the rocks in a shallow part of the river.

      Mr. Charles Ray emigrated from Lurgen, Ireland and Mrs. Mary Ray (nee Brown) came from Kincardine, Ontario. Mr. Ray purchased the 160 acre farm in 1897 for $160. The photograph was taken at the Ray family farm, Thessalon, in October, 1950. The occasion was the gathering of the children of …

      The Vorvis Trophy was annually presented to a person who has consistently contributed to sports in Whitby. Harry Vorvis, the trophy's creator, was the owner of Maple Leaf Billiards. He first presented the trophy in 1948.

      A laser print of an original photograph.

      "Gramma Allen, Aunt Maud, Aunt Annie in a boat, circa 1950." This photo is located in the Gardiner/Allen scrapbook 1700'2 - 1954. A comment received shares that Emma and Annie were sisters and Maud was their sister-in-law, married to their brother, Bert.

      This is the oldest stone church in Muskoka, built in 1885 of local stone on a one-acre piece of property donated by Charles William Johnson the village storekeeper, who asked that it be named after his favourite daughter Mary, and that it not include a cemetery. After his death his …

      The Pedlar People Ltd. began as a small store on the corner of Bond and Simcoe Sts. in the 1840s by Henry Pedlar. Eventually a sheet metal plant was built behind the store, which was taken over by his son, George H. Pedlar. George Pedlar bought a large piece of …

      Black and white photo of four men next to a docked fishing boat in the Oshawa Harbour.

      Aerial view looking north of uptown Waterloo showing many businesses including Waterloo Manufacturing Company, Snyder Brothers Upholstering Company, the town hall with bandstand, Devitt's Block and Waterloo Park and Silver Lake. At top right is the spire of St. John's Lutheran Church. Far right at bottom can be seen Queen …

      Reverse: [stamped] "Herbert J. Holtom, 544 Bayview Ave, Toronto, Ont. HU.8-8530" Grey Roots Museum and Archives holds the evening dress and the rotating pendulum clock in their archives.

      Harry Mercer, who lived around the corner on Maria Street, was also an employee of the water works, as was his son Walter.