Résultats

      Black and white negative depicting a photograph of Concession 7 (Columbus Road) looking west toward Thickson Road. Maple Shade Farm, the residence of of John Dryden, is on the left side of the image. Large trees line the roadway.

      This brick house was built in 1835 on lot 20 of Concession 7 in Whitby Township. It was located on the north side of the the 7th Concession, east of Thickson Road. A second story was added to the house in 1926. It was the residence of James Dryden (1806-1881), …

      This was the first house in Athens to have a furnace in the cellar and a cistern in the attic. In those days, the residents were slow to accept modern improvements, and Mr. Galliger was told the house would burn down and his cistern would spring a leak and ruin …

      2010 marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Sidney Paget (1860-1908), an illustrator closely associated with creating a visual identity for Arthur Conan Doyle’s character Sherlock Holmes. The lean, elegant Holmes Paget presented to readers of the Strand magazine worked beautifully with Conan Doyle’s text, and formed the basis …

      Condition: Very good copy.

      Condition: Very good. Only some yellowing.

      This 1891 photograph depicts Dr. Duncan Marquis, who has been described (by M. Smyth) as "probably the most beloved doctor the village ever had." A native of the village, he left to pursue his medical education but later returned to set up practice in the village of his youth. He …

      (Condition: Good.)

 The Canadian Album (Brantford, ON), 1891     John Joseph McEntee was born at Rochester, New York in 1847. He entered St. Michael's College in Toronto in 1860 and the Grand Seminary at Montreal in 1867. He was ordained on 18 October 1870 at St. Michael's Cathedral in Toronto and appointed assistant at St. Paul's Church in Toronto …

      Reid Barber was a photographer in Chesley, Ontario in 1891.

      The residence of Andrew Kerr was the first house close to the street on the west side of Ashburn Road. Andrew Kerr operated a blacksmith shop on the opposite side of Ashburn Road from the 1880s until 1907 when he moved to Toronto and later Agincourt. The back wing of …

      Andrew Kerr operated a blacksmith shop on the east side of Ashburn Road a short distance south of the 9th Concession. He operated the shop from the 1880s until 1907 when he moved to Toronto and later Agincourt.

      Andrew Kerr operated a blacksmith shop on the east side of Ashburn Road a short distance south of the 9th Concession. He operated the shop from the 1880s until 1907 when he moved to Toronto and later Agincourt.

      Oliver Martin was killed in a train accident west of Sudbury in 1910.

      Oliver was killed in a train accident west of Sudbury in 1910.

      John Aubrey Morphy was born on 24 Jan 1891 to Henry Edmund and Miriam Maria Morphy (nee Pellatt). He attended the University of Toronto where he gained both a degree in Mining Engineering (1911) and a Bachelor of Applied Science (1912). Morphy enlisted in June 1915, and was a member …

      The first brick school in the community of Cedar Dale was erected on the west side of the "main highway". Simcoe Street South, halfway between the centre of the hamlet of Oshawa and the lakeshore, just below the point where it jogged to the south-east to avoid the Oshawa Creek …

      Laura Gertrude Barnes was born at Whitby on July 26, 1880. She married Richard S. Cassels on February 16, 1926 at Whitby. She died on August 26, 1979 at Whitby.William Douglas Barnes was born at Whitby on August 10, 1879. He played Junior A Hockey as a young man in …

      Francis James Roche was born at Whitby on October 10, 1865, son of John Richmond Roche, Professor of Mathematics in Newton University, Baltimore, Maryland. He was educated by private tuition at Toronto Collegiate Institute, Trinity College and University of Toronto, from which he graduated in 1886, taking honours in natural …

      William Henry Huston was born at Whitby on June 17, 1859, the son of the town clerk and treasurer, Thomas Huston. He was educated at the Whitby Public School and High School and he matriculated into Toronto University in 1876. He was a teacher at the Whitby Collegiate Institute for …