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    Jim, Isobel, and Hank Ford on a sled at their house on 5th line. “Growing up on a farm we always had things to do – we learned to skate on a pond or creek, rode horses, had hills to go sleigh riding. In the summer we swam in the ...

    Hank and Isobel sometimes rode this horse to and from their one-room school, S.S.#9 Coyne, which was over 2 miles away. Hank's father had also attended the same school. The Ford farm was on 5th Line at Lower Base Road, Trafalgar Township. Their house had been built by their Great-Grandfather ...

    Isobel Davison says, "One of these dogs was a pet named Gyp. The other was a working herd dog, simply called “Collie”. The dogs brought in the cows each night at 5 pm. All you had to say was “Go and get the cows, Collie”, and the dog would run ...

    Eckhardt Wetlauffer with his wife, Ethel, and his sisters. L-R; Charlotte Waterbury, (?), Rosetta Wilson, (?) Ada Hill, Eckhardt Wettlaufer, Ethel Wettlaufer. The younger men/lads in the photograph are likely the sons of Ethel and Eckhardt, Harold and George Wettlaufer.

    A photograph of Bert Langtry, as he was called, possibly taken at the time of his engagement to Annie McKay. The notice of Bert's death in the January 7, 1926 Milton Canadian Champion newspaper, page 3, col.5, says that their residence was on the Middle Road in Bronte (Merton area), ...

    Orphanage, Oakville Ont.

    In the spring and summer of 2015, the Trafalgar Township Historical Society took on the project of photographing the historic houses from the North Service Road north to Burnhamthorpe Road, from Ninth Line west to Tremaine Road. S.S. No. 16 schoolhouse sits on the west bank of the Sixteen Mile ...

    Map of the County of Halton, showing proposed County Good Roads System, marked in red. Compliments of Higginbotham Drug Co. Map of Halton County, 1904.

    The teaching contract between Mrs. Ethel Wettlaufer and the Trafalgar school area signed April 5, 1955. The yearly salary was $3700.00 beginning September 1, 1955. Ethel Wettlaufer taught at the Palermo school, S.S. #2, Trafalgar Township, Halton County, starting in 1944 and through into the 1950s. Her teaching contracts are ...

    Certificate of Marriage This is to certify that I solemnized the marriage of Eckhardt Reiner Elton Wettlaufer and Ethel Irene Giles At Merton in the province of Ontario, on the 17th day of September, A.D. 1924. Witnesses; Harry Leedham, Mary Grace Giles. George W. Moore, Bronte Ontario, Methodist.

    Reproduced here are two of the daily log pages showing the activities of Janet's group for the day as well as two pages of games that the group leaders could use. To view all the pages, click on "Pages" "Select". The daily log was so neatly typed after the camp ...

    This is the transcript of a newspaper article from the Oakville Beaver, September 17, 1975, written by Wilma Blokhuis. Full text of this newspaper is not online at time of writing this record so no link can be provided; only the transcription. There is no image with this record. In ...

    The bridge at Glenorchy crossed an arm of the Sixteen Mile Creek at 4th Line just below the Lower Baseline Rd., Halton County. The site is particularly remembered for the old school which had been built nearby in the river floodplain - people remember the river ice pushing up against ...

    Oakville Summer Day Camp Memories by Ross Wark: This is a collection of photographs and memories about the Leadership Training Camp held in late June for the training of young people who were to be the camp leaders for the Oakville Recreation Commission summer day camps in the years 1957 ...

    Oakville Summer Day Camp Memories by Ross Wark: This is a collection of photographs and memories about the Leadership Training Camp held in late June for the training of young people who were to be the camp leaders for the Oakville Recreation Commission summer day camps in the years 1957 ...

    Oakville Summer Day Camp Memories by Ross Wark: This is a collection of photographs and memories about the Leadership Training Camp held in late June for the training of young people who were to be the camp leaders for the Oakville Recreation Commission summer day camps in the years 1957 ...

    Photographs and printed leader manuals courtesy of Janet Lees and Ross Wark, group camp leaders 1957-1959. This is one of a series of photographs and memories of working as a leader at one of the Oakville Recreation Commission summer day camps in the late 1950's. To see all the records, ...

    This is an example of the materials used by the young people who were the day camp leaders for the Oakville Recreation Commission summer day camps in the years 1957 to 1959. The collection also includes photographs taken of children and leaders at the day camp in August 1959, and ...

    This is a transcription of documents from Volumes 16 and 17, two of thirty-nine volumes of pay records and accounts of the Upper Canada Militia during the time of the War of 1812 as transcribed by Fred Blair from the digital document copies published in 2012 on the Collections Canada ...