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    In memory of the Rev. James Nisbet, the first foreign missionary of the Canada Presbyterian Church and the founder of Prince Albert, born at Hutchesontown, Glasgow, Scotland. Sept. 8th, 1823, arrived at Prince Albert, 1886. Died at Kildonan, Manitoba. Sept. 30th, 1874. This tablet erected by relations and friends in ...

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    Lyn (Lynda) Hart and friends

    HMCS Oakville's bell and chronometer

    The teachers and students at Oakville High School. It may well be the faculty and student body when the school opened. Oakville Trafalgar High School was founded in 1908, and located on Reynolds Street in the town of Oakville until 1992. As high school students came from all over Trafalgar ...

    The house was built about 1859 by James W. McCraney & wife Augusta [nee Leach.] It was their home until 1911. Photo dated 1905. In 2008, this house still stands as 425 Fourth Line, Oakville. James and Augusta McCraney are seated in the lower right corner of the photograph.

    A photograph taken ca 1926 - 1928 (estimated on Isobel Workman's age and the male teacher) of the students and teachers at the White School, S.S. #10. Trafalgar Township. The 1927 teacher was Jim Bonham. The 1928 teacher was Mr. O.R. Graham. (Teachers before and after were women.) In 1824, ...

    This is a hand-tinted black and white photograph of a young man taken perhaps about 1900, about whom nothing is known. There may be a connection to the southwest of Mississauga and the southeast of Oakville as it came from the estate of Myrtle Speck who lived in Clarkson, Mississauga. ...

    James Kelley Sr. was the first of the Kelley family to settle in the Oakville area. While “Kelley” may appear to be an Irish name, it is in fact a corruption of “MacKelley”, and the family can be traced to Southern Scotland. James was born in Wentworth County on February ...

    Born November 9th, 1826, daughter of William Ribble and Susan barnes. She is of old German background. James and Eliza had 10 children, two of whom were twin girls. Eliza died Feb 5th, 1901, in Oakville, cause of death “septic poisoning”.

    Eldest child of James Kelley and Eliza Ribble, Susan was born on July 30th, 1849, and died January 21st, 1893. She married Captain Daniel Williams, a sailor, on June 26th, 1869. They had one child, James Edgar, who died of Cholera aged 1 year 5 months.

    Born Feb 9th, 1856, died June 4th, 1943. Eldest surviving son of James Kelley and Eliza Ribble. (Their first son, James, died at age 8). Owned the furniture store at the corner of Lakeshore (then Colborne St.) and Dunn. Peter married Catherine Hewitt, granddaughter of Duncan Milloy, builder and resident ...

    L – R. Amy Breckon, Isabel Luscombe, James Breckon, Julia Luscombe, Emma Luscombe Breckon, John L. Breckon, Thomas Luscombe Sr, Jock Luscombe, Jon Luscombe Jr.

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    Handwritten on the bottom of the frame: Thos. French, ?Hewitt, W. Herbinson, Jno. Spencer, J? Jamieson, Nelson ?, J. Cameron, W. Tomilson, Alex Campbell, W. Charger, J. Robertson, Jos. Burrows

    Frances Barber says that her family lived on the Dundas Highway from the spring of 1946 to late in 1949. She remembers going inside an old, dark, dusty abandoned building with her brothers and other neighbourhood children. On the floor of this old building were shoe heels and soles as ...

    Working in the schoolhouse garden. Either the Palermo or Tansley schoolhouse, 1917. Clara Norton is the tallest girl in dark clothes, holding a rake or hoe, to the left of the teacher.