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      This marriage record was taken from the records of St. Jude's Church.

      The teaching contract between Mrs. Ethel Wettlaufer and the Trafalgar school area signed April 5, 1955. The yearly salary was $3700.00 beginning September 1, 1955. Ethel Wettlaufer taught at the Palermo school, S.S. #2, Trafalgar Township, Halton County, starting in 1944 and through into the 1950s. Her teaching contracts are …

      The teaching contract between Mrs. Ethel Wettlaufer and the Trafalgar school area signed April 21, 1956. The yearly salary was $4300.00 beginning September 4, 1956. Ethel Wettlaufer was born and raised in Merton, which was near what is now the Queen Elizabeth Way and Bronte Road. As a young lady, …

      Teaching contract signed on May 21st, 1946 between Trafalgar Township School Area in the County of Halton and Mrs. Ethel Wettlaufer. The salary was $140 a month for 10 months, beginning the 3rd of September, 1946.

      Teaching contract signed on April 5th, 1949 between Trafalgar Township School Area in the County of Halton and Mrs. Ethel Wettlaufer. The salary was $190 a month beginning the 6th of September, 1949.

      Please click on the MSWord document link on the right side of this page to open the pictoral text document. This document includes photographs of Orange Lawrence and wife Sarah Angelica (House) Lawrence, of their house as it was in 1911 and another of a stone wall fronting the house …

      Colton The Funeral Of the late Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Colton will take place from their late residence Dundas St, Trafalgar, at 3:30 pm on Thursday, August 19th, 1897, to the town cemetery. Friends and acquaintances will please accept this intimation Mr and Mrs Colton were killed at the G.T.R. …

      Miss Gladys McCleary was a long-time teacher at McCurdy's Corners School, Ninth Line and Derry Roads which was S.S.#8. She became a school inspector and later a trustee. Halton County has honoured her work by naming a school after her. Please see the link provided here. S.S. #7 was the …

      A link to our record of the 1887 diary of her father, George, is provided for your further information.

      Further Information: An October 1960 "Trafalgar Day Special" insert in the local newspaper, Trafalgar Journal - The Home Newspaper of Oakville and Trafalgar, has an item "Volunteer Firefighters Mark 21st Anniversary of Acton(sic) Action". The Trafalgar Township Historical Association has this print newspaper section in their archives. Information from this …

      This house was demolished in 1965. Post's Corners was one of the first hamlets in the area known as Trafalgar Township. It was located at the intersection of what is now Trafalgar Road (or Seventh Line) and Dundas Street, Oakville, Ontario. Later, the hamlet was known as Postville.

      This store, gas station and ice cream booth on the south-west corner of Trafalgar Road (7th Line) and Dundas Street was photographed about 1940. The two-storey central building in this photograph is the original Post's Inn, according to Town of Oakville Heritage Planner, Carolyn Van Sligtenhorst in May 2016. Two …

      The front cover, back page and programme events from the opening ceremony of the new Snider's School in 1956. Snider's school was first built on land owned by Ephraim Post Concession 1, Lot 6, NDS. We know S.S. #4 was in use by 1877 and the 1878 Atlas shows it …

      The correct name of this hall is "Trafalgar Memorial Hall". The name was amended and a plaque was commissioned to honour soldiers who had died in World War II hung in the Hall for many years - it is now at the archives of the Trafalgar Township Historical Society (linked …

      Both the Dent and Bradley families ran general stores on the northwest corner of Trafalgar and Dundas. Leslie Bradley took over the store from the Carpenter family in 1925 and was postmaster. The Dent family had the B-A (British American) gas pumps. This area was at one time called Postville, …

      The Merton area (Lots 26-35 2SDS Trafalgar) was settled as early as 1810. The first settlers were David Utter, Joseph Smith, William Bates, Cornelius Tipps and Henry Cale. The community adopted the name "Merton" when the post office opened in 1852. The name was likely chosen to commemorate the battle …

      Postville was also known as Post's Corners. It was at the intersection of Trafalgar Road and Dundas Street, Trafalgar Township.

      John was one of the four sons of Emily (Gilby) and George Henry Hardy, Sheridan. John married Anne, called Annie, Livingston Cameron on January 1, 1919, in Queenston, Lincoln Co., Ontario.

      Son of George and Emily (Gilby) Hardy. "Duff" worked as City Clerk for the former city of Fort William, Ontario (now merged into Thunder Bay). He was a sport fisherman well into his '90s.

      According to Bill McDermott, Police Clerk at the time of this photograph, it was taken in the late 1950s. The police were located in the farthest left (east) part of the white building. There was a narrow office space and front desk leading to the clerk's desk, and the Chief's …