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    In 1961, construction of this school was underway. Coincidentally, Prince Philip announced the need for a massive expansion of high school tecnical education and Canada responded with the Federal-Provincial Technical and Vocational Training Agreement with substantial grants for the composite academic, commercial and technical educational facilities. The Oakville Board was ...

    House on the n.e. corner of Trafalgar Rd. and Dundas St., c.1940.

    Front of postcard: "Jacquelyn's Bridge, Oakville". Verso: PRIVATE POSTCARD ; 10/18/16 ; THIS SPACE MAY BE USED FOR MESSAGES ; One of the old time bridges outside Oakville Town. These are fast disappearing to make room for new ones suited to automobile traffic."

    The Post Inn was opened by the Post family on the south-west corner of Dundas Street and 7th Line (which is now called Trafalgar Road), or on Lot 13 Concession 1 SDS, before 1827. The Inn was first run by the father of the Ephraim Post in the photograph here, ...

    Left to right: Albert Downs, Gordon Booth, Elmer Downs, Floyd Downs. The Downs owned and operated a portable saw mill and threshing machines in the area for many years. Elmer was one of the founders of the Steam-Era.

    This farmhouse was on Lot 31, Concession 1, SDS, Trafalgar Township. It used to be right at the corner of Bronte Road (formerly Highway 25) and Dundas (formerly Highway 5), directly north of the Palermo Community Hall. Because Dundas Street was widened several times in the 20th century, (as was ...

    The two photographs in this record show the crashed potato truck and the work to retrieve it in about 1964 (the photo was developed in 1965 but that was likely a few months after it was taken). The truck was guided onto Fourth Line, an unsuitable route for a truck, ...

    Oakville Football Club (OFC) and Officials. Season 1924 champions. Back Row, Left to Right- G. Shaw, Exec., J.M. McDuffee, Treasurer, G. McLaren, Exec., T. Blakelock, Exec., J. Taylor, Exec., I.R. Mills, Exec., A.A.P. Leiper, Pres., J. Horkins, Exec. Middle Row, Standing- H. Gilpin, Secretary, H. Stewart, Groundsman, H. Holbrook, Trainer, ...

    S.S. No. 14, Glenorchy school was also known as Pleasant Valley School. The school was on the floodplain flats of the Sixteen Mile Creek on the Fourth Line, just south of Lower Baseline. People remember the river ice pushing up against the old school. A small building on the site ...

    Glenorchy School, S.S. 14, was located on 4th Line just below the Lower Baseline Rd., Trafalgar Township in Halton County. The small building on the right is the shed that protected the well. The school was on the flats of the Sixteen Mile Creek. There is quite a cliffside that ...

    Mary Buckton and George Hardy married in England, then emigrated to Canada sometime by 1838. (Clarification of the birth place of their eldest daughter, Mary Elizabeth Hardy, is needed. Possibly in England, possibly in Canada as there seem to have been two Mary Hardy children at about the same time. ...

    St Stephen’s Anglican church, 14996 Steeles Ave, (just west of Ninth Line), Hornby. The main body of the church was built in 1837.

    Petrie House, at the southwest corner Jones & Lakeshore Rd, in Bronte, 1979. Demolished in 1978-79. Under the photograph in this record is a link to another photograph of Petrie House and neighbouring Magnet Inn, taken happier days in 1974. Centriller Public School was across the street. Two people have ...

    Store belonging to Bill Dent, on the north-west corner of Trafalgar Road and Dundas Street. The house next door belonged to a Mrs. Fisher. The photograph was taken in the spring of 1952. The Dents lived at Glenorchy.

    This bridge has been identified as "This would be the King George Arch bridge over the Sixteen Mile Creek. Looking west towards what is now Kerr Street. Ultimately demolished to make way for the QEW bridge in the 1930's." See the Comments section of this record. The sides of the ...

    This is possibly the first student body and faculty of the Oakville Trafalgar High School in 1908. OTHS was located on Reynolds Street in the town of Oakville until 1992. As well as referring to it as "Oakville High School", it is also referred to by the acronyms, "OT" or ...

    A view of the old iron trestle train bridge crossing Bronte Creek (aka Twelve Mile Creek) just south of the Queen Elizabeth Way in the southwest corner of Oakville, Ontario. This photo was taken in October 1947. The new Queen Elizabeth Way high-level bridge can be faintly seen in the ...

    The Bronte Historical Society dates the building to about 1840 and they know the house was built by the Bray family of stone dredged from Lake Ontario called Dundas shale. A link to the BHS photograph of the family at the house is provided for your further information. Stonehooking to ...

    The store at Hornby, Halton County sometime after 1940. The previous wooden store burned down in 1929. Wilmar James Thompson is second from the right. He was proprietor of the Hornby store and postmaster from about 1946 till 1963. From left to right is Rusty Robertson, Bill Robinson, Ed Robertson, ...

    Top Row, Left to Right: Roy McKay, Ivan Mcdonald, Doug McDonald, Jack Rogers, Grant Bray, Ken Lewis, Dick Scarrow. Middle Row, Left to Right: Ken Pollock, George Wright, Gord Castle, Allan Elliott, Alva Elliott, Bob Mason, Merideth McKim. Seated, Left to Right: Truman Aitchison, Percey Joyce, Chief Freeman Bray, Deputy ...