c1988 Title page: The Story of Our Sanctuary, Knox Presbyterian Church of Oakville, 1888-1988. See link to images on right hand side for subsequent pages of this booklet.

  Trafalgar Township hall se corner of Trafalgar rd and Dundas St

  The White Oak diner, which now occupies the space where Peter Kelley's Furniture used to be.

  In the late 1970's when this photo was taken, the side wall of the McGregor Hardware Store, with its murals advertising the store, was still visible. As the area has been built up however, the wall has been blocked from view.

  House built by the King family (who at one point (pre-turn of the century) owned every house along the South side of Steeles Ave. between 6th and 8th line). The house sits on the property which also contained the Hornby hockey rink, directly across the street from the Hornby school and general...

  Home of Adam and Alexander Dick, circa 1870's. One of the brothers was so sick that his brother had to go fetch the doctor. He stopped at a neighbour's house on Derry Rd, and asked a man named MacDougall if he would go and get the doctor while mr. Dick went back to stay with the sick sibling....

  Oakville Journal Record, 2 Jan 1973 The Architectural Conservatory of Ontario adds the preservation of Oakville's Erchless Estate to this list of projects.

  Bob Pennycook, Chisholm estate: will it be preserved?, Oakville Beaver, 19 May 1976 "The placing of an historical designation on the entire Chisholm estate on Navy St. at the Oakville Harbor, could ring the death bell for the century-old house built by the founder of Oakville."

  Daily Journal Record, 18 Jul 1992 The Oakville Historical Society recommends 5 steps for a special committee to put into action in order to preserve the Chisholm Estate.

  Kathy Yanchus, Historic gardens at Erchless, Oakville Beaver, 19 Sep 1986 The restoration of the Erchless Estate landscape was as important as the building itself. It was designed to mimic the flowerbeds as they would have been in the mid 1920s.

  Oakville Beaver, 7 Feb 1979 "A decision on provincial funding for a master plan study on possible uses of the historic Chisholm property...won't be made until the end of March."

  Unknown A view of the old Oakville Granary in the winter.

  Unknown Paintings of the old Oakville Aquatic Club (top) and an Oakville historical house (bottom).

  Unknown A painting featuring the old Oakville Post Office.

  Unknown A painting of The House, a fine dining restaurant in Palermo, Oakville.

  1865 Oakville's first Town Hall and offices. Upstairs housed the community hall and the basement housed the local jail. It was built in 1862, but was destroyed by fire in 1913. The original building was located on Navy Street.

  c. 1945 Built in 1881, the Trafalgar Township Hall served as council chambers, Township office, and community hall. The Town moved into the new community hall building in 1950.

  1967 The Hammond House, as it was known, was a Sheridan Nurseries home located on the NW corner of the Town line (Winston Churchill Blvd) and the lower middle road. This house was a boarding house during the war for Japanese men moved from the West Coast to work at the Sheridan Nurseries. Most remained...

  1985 A photograph of the Old Post office Museum and Thomas house, which were relocated to Lakeside Part and restored.

  A sketch of the old Library building that was located at 216 lakeshore Rd. E.

  1974 Front (west) and south elevations, showing part of 441 Elizabeth Street on the left. Built in 1855 for Richard Mortimer, a butcher. Later the residence of Charles Ogg.

  The railway crossing sign and tracks to the Freeman station at right. Reproduced on note paper.

  1 November 1988 Built of rubble construction in 1850 by Andrew and Daniel Pickett, according to the principles of O. S. Fowler's Home for All: or Gravel Wall and Octagonal Mode of Building. The octagonal design was believed to promote good health. Orson Squire Fowler (1809-1899) was a "practical phrenologist"...

  1933 Standing in front of the Octagonal House built in 1850 by Andrew and Daniel Pickett, L to R: Keitha (nee Pickett) Henry, William Pickett,his wife Barbara Ann (nee Harvey), and George Henry. Photographed on the occasion of William and Barbara's 60th Anniversary. William was the son of Thomas E. and...

  circa 1980 Exterior view, from the northwest, of "Pine Hall", the Van Norman - Breckon House. Designated under the Ontario Heritage Act in 1986, with an easement to the Ontario Heritage Foundation, after a long campaign conducted by the Burlington Historical Society. Records of the campaign were collected...

  ca 1905

  ca 1910 The Regency style house in the background was owned by Mrs Adam Begg, widow of a shoemaker. It stood at the south-east corner of Brant and James Streets and was demolished ca 1910 for the construction of a commercial building by William Kerns. A 1980s note accompanying the photograph states that...

  ca 1950 Built in 1875 by James Cushie Bent, an important early builder who also constructed the neighbouring frame houses, 1442 and 1436 Ontario Street. From the 1850s, the Regular Baptists of Wellington Square met in Bent's small frame house by Rambo Creek, now 507 Elizabeth Street. In 1875 the land for...

  1986 Paul Duff's painting of the front (south) elevation was commissioned by Joan and Allan Ireland in 1986. It was to include the resotration of the front portico, based on photographs taken in the 1920s. "It also includes a walnut tree with a limb used by Allan and the other children for a swing. The...

  ca 1985 From a note dated Nov 1/88 from H. Harbottle: George Harbottle built the farmhouse in 1840. His son George Jefferson, grandson Elmer, great-grandson Rosslyn, great-great-grandson Ronald, and great-great-great-grandson Bryan all lived in the home. Ronald built a new house on the farm. At the time...

  ca 1950 The front (east) and north elevations. Built for Joseph, the sixth child of Joshua and Elizabeth Freeman. His youngest son, Smith Freeman, took over the farm and house and lived here until his death in 1932. The house was demolished ca 1960 - 1965 when the property was purchased by Holland Motors...

  1980s John Lucas purchased this farm in 1830, when he was 30 years old, from the blacksmith Thomas Douglas. Some of the farm buildings, including one with forged door hinges marked "TD", were relocated to the Ontario Agricultural Museum in Milton in the 1980s.

  ca 1910 At the front door, Minerva and Gladys Rogers, their mother at the side door. The school was demolished in 1929. Reproduced in Dorothy Turcotte, Places and People on Bronte Creek (1993), p. 70.

  1804

  n.d.

  1877 Located on Concession 2 South of Dundas Street (SDS), Lot 2, later 5355 North Service Road.The house was demolished ca 2000.

  ca 1980 Demolished.

  1974 Showing the front (east) and south elevation of the house on its original site, with the tower of the City Hall on Brant Street visible in the left background. Built in 1856 for Alexander Chisholm, the house was later owned by David Reynolds Springer and inherited by his daughter Eliza Madden,...

  1974 The front (east) elevation of the original house. Part of the later addition can be seen on the left. Built in 1862 for Captain Daniel Henderson. In 1897 owned by J. W. Henderson, a bailiff, later a real-estate agent. In the 1930s the residence of Harry Graham, owner of the Brant Street shoe...

  1974 Built ca 1873 for James and Christina Laing and their family, who sold the property next door (490) to Jacob Harmon Fisher and moved to this house. After Christina Laing's death it was purchased in 1902 by Dr Austin Hager Speers. In 1952, the property was purchased by the City from his estate and...