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    People line the streets for a parade to mark the Coronation of H.M. Queen Elizabeth II. A parade of CGIT girls, the Union Flag at the head, pauses opposite the cenotaph at Main Street at Guelph. The Texaco Station in the background is now The George Pub.

Oakville Record-Star, 12 Jan 1950, p. 1     ...

    Dufferin School, School Section #10 on Highway #25, south of the village, showing the girls and boys entrance and the bell tower.

Hamilton Spectator, Nov 21, 1953     Mr. W.J.L. Hampshire prepares to use an axe, at age 81. He is a former Sheriff of Halton County.

    Miss Charlotte Moore, John Moore and Mrs. Moore.

Hamilton Spectator, 19531121     Crawford Douglas and Mrs. William Douglas, owners of the Speyside General Store and Reliance gas station on Highway #25 at 15 Sideroad.

    Henry Shepherd acting as Parade Marshal for the Coronation Day Parade in 1953. Photograph taken on Guelph St. in Georgetown.

    Henry Shepherd and his wife Susanna Maude sitting together with fellow Legion members at a Legion Banquet.

Georgetown Herald (Georgetown, ON), 8 Feb 1956, p. 12     ...

    Two couples flank an elderly lady outside a brick home. On the back is written “Shain?” and “from Dora Martyn”.

Oakville Record-Star, 12 Jan 1950, 1 cont'd on pg. 6     From a labor camp, where soup vats were overturned on hungry men as punishment, to a land in which people do not ask where you come from, but welcome you instead, is the saga of Richard Wawrzonek and his wife, Irena. They came as New Canadians to Oakville two years ...

    A large group of children, one with a baseball bat, pause for a group photo before going to play, probably at Ashgrove United Sunday School picnic.

    Ashgrove area ladies gather at the home of Minerva (Howson) Ruddell (1857-1955) at 24 Charles Street, Georgetown. Seen with Mrs. Ruddell are Floella Ruddell, Ida Hood, Olive Ruddell, Florence Wright, Sadie Ruddell, Dell Dawson, Estelle Laidlaw and Ada Thompson.

    Hauling hay with the big fork on the tractor at Ashgrove farm.

    Ladies and children from Ashgrove gather for a group photo at the wedding Of Ismey Kean to John McLean Bird at Eden Mills Presbyterian Church. Miss Kean was the teacher at Ashgrove School (SS#3) for the past 8 years.

Georgetown Herald (Georgetown, ON), 31 Oct 1956, p. 10     Legion Notes from the Georgetown Herald that feature sections mentioning Henry Shepherd as Parade Marshal and as an attendee at a Milton event honouring World War I veterans.

Acton Free Press (Acton, ON), 1959     Mary Ann Craine (July 23, 1882 - September 05, 1973), married, June 07, 1900, Thomas Lewis Helson (December 18, 1881 – May 05, 1963). The Helsons lived in Kelso near George Gulles who married their daughter. Tom Helson worked at the lime kilns.

    ASHGROVE: A group of former students gather for a photo at the Ashgrove School reunion on the occasion of its closure. L to R are Gilbert Wrigglesworth, Clayton Dick holding Paul, Elsie McCurdy, Violet Anderson, Marion Lawrence, Betty Brownridge, Ruth Coxe (behind), Bob Alexander, Doris McNabb and Howson Ruddell. See ...

    ASHGROVE: Women's Institute members on an outing to Stanley park were L to R Back: Isobel Bird, Helen Wilson, Una Cunningham, Violet Brigden, Florence Giffen, Jessie Dick, Jessie Wingfield, Mac Archer, Olive Ruddell; MIDDLE: ?, ?, Evelyn Barnes, Elsie Bird, Ismey Kean, Mary Bird; FRONT: Bernice Wilson, __ Bird, Margaret ...

    Two girls read in the Oakville Public Library's new Children's Library.