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      Dr. George Alva Carson was born in Prince Edward County, Upper Canada, on February 13, 1822. He studied medicine at Central Medical College in Rochester, New York and graduated in 1852. He attended McGill College at Montreal for one year and graduated from Victoria College, Cobourg in 1858. He came …

      Black and white negative of a photograph of a stereograph showing a view of Whitby looking south taken from the Ontario County Courthouse. The intersection of Ontario and Centre Streets is at the bottom left corner. The house in the foreground was purchased in 1864 by James Rowe Philp. The …

      Trafalgar Castle was built as the residence of Sheriff Nelson Gilbert Reynolds in 1859 to 1862. This picture was taken not long after it was completed.

      There are no buildings on the west side of Brock Street from Elm to Dundas Street because of a fire in October 1857. The holes in the ground are the basements of the burned-out stores. The Ontario Hotel was located at the north-west corner of Brock and Elm Streets. The …

      Perry's Block was located opposite the outlet at Elm Street. It was built by John Ham Perry in 1858. The building was destroyed by fire on June 10, 1864 and was replaced by McMillan's Block the same year.

      Perry's Block burned down in 1864. The first Royal Hotel was built in 1862 and burned down in 1872.

      The three storey brick building depicted in this lithograph was the first Royal Hotel at 171 Brock Street North (located on the east side of Brock Street, south of Mary Street). It was built in 1862, but was destroyed by fire March 6, 1872. The proprietor at the time of …

      Richard Snow was born in Yorkshire, England on October 8, 1825. His wife was Ellen Ann Harrison, born at Whitby Township on October 7, 1836. They had 6 children. Richard Snow opened a bakery and confectionery business in Whitby in the 1850s. In 1893 he moved to Parkdale where he …

      Thomas Kirkland was born near Tanderagee, County Armagh, Ireland on August 12, 1835. He started early on a career in teaching and took his training at the Normal School in Dublin, and the Albert National Training Institute in Glasevin, studying the theory and practice of agriculture. He then took a …

      The Whitby Chronicle Office in this photo was built in 1862 at 173 Brock Street North,(on the east side of Brock Street, south of Mary Street, one door north of the Royal Hotel). It was constructed by John Ham Perry. The Whitby Chronicle was a newspaper which contained news of …