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    Wilbert Henry Biggar was a hard working farmer with a renowned mixed farm. He was also Halton County Council Reeve, representing Trafalgar Township. His grandfather, Michael L. Bigger had been the Deputy Reeve - Oakville on the Halton County Council earlier in 1890-1891, and his father, Albert, had also held ...

    2457 Dundas Street West, Oakville is on Lot 30 Concession 1, NDS Trafalgar Township. The Crown Patent for all 200 acres of Lot 30 was issued to John Shaw in 1808. In 1876, three quarters of an acre in the southeast corner were sold by William Henry Hagar for a ...

    Hettie and her older sister Jennie, married in a double wedding ceremony at the church in Munn's Corners in 1883. Jennie went out west to live in Manitoba with her husband W.H. Reid. The family says they went "west with William Henry Spearin". In 1898, Hettie and her husband, Albert ...

    A copy of the farmer's, Mr. J. C. Cunningham of Hornby in Halton County, Ontario, sale of wool to the Canadian Co-Operativve Wool Growers Limited company. The company representative was Mr. A.N. Stark and the grader signed his name, "Fraser".

    Belinda Cronkrite Bigger

    Ron and Oscar were neighbours and through marriage, related. Ron and Ruth (Cullingworth) Powell farmed the "old Caverhill" farm on 4th Line and Upper Middle Road. Haying in the 1920s.

    The girls are feeding the turkeys at Glenclare Farm, their home. The picture was taken circa 1934.

    Truck Door: W.H. Biggar. Truck Side Panel: Glenclare Farm Oakville.

    Preparing the field for planting. The wooden scraper is just for levelling the field. It can't deal with rocks because it is just a wooden board and has no metal edge to protect it. Glenclare Farm was Lot 15, Concession 2 NDS Trafalgar. This land had been settled by Michael ...

    Wilbert Biggar is driving the tractor and grandson Harold Biggar can be seen on the hay binder, Hettie Biggar is to our right behind the tractor. The hay binder takes the hay, bundles it into a sheaf and ties binder twine around it. Harold has put his hat on a ...

    Two photographs taken at different times, with different people and different horses but in the same spot with the same wagon at Glenclare Farm, on work days. The primary photograph shows brother and sister, Wilbert and Clara Biggar. The secondary photograph is of father Albert and son Wilbert.

    The main picture is of baby Lois with her mother, Ethel Biggar, likely on the day of her christening. Ethel and husband, Wilbert Biggar, had a two year old son, Harold, at this time. They lived near Munn's Corners, and the christening was likely at Munn's Methodist Church. The second ...

    A wonderful picture showing the diversity of the Biggar family farm, Glenclare Farm. Albert Biggar's grandfather, Michael, had first owned the property, Lot 15, Concession 2 NDS Trafalgar Township, running north from Burnhamthorpe Road on the east side of 6th Line. Acreage was added to expand this property as the ...

    Mary Eva Biggar was born on September 25, 1880 in Trafalgar. She married Maurice Bruce McCausland on July 21, 1908 at St. Judes Church in Oakville. They went west to live in Trehern, Manitoba. She died on June 23, 1976 in Oakville, Ontario and is buried in St. Judes Cemetery. ...

    Elmer Downs was a thresher as well as owner of a portable saw mill. He and his brother took the machinery to the farmers and set up shop where required. The photograph sowns the threshing machine steam engine and water tank - the power that operated the threshing machine. (The ...

    W. C. Inglehart is standing behind the cows. Note the milk maids, farm hands and family members. "Oakhurst" was built by William Cyrus Inglehart in the late 1800’s. William Cyrus and his wife Eleanor (McLaren) can be seen sitting on the porch in this photograph. Their son, Herbert also farmed ...

    Sheep at Cliffview Farm

    Haystacks at Cliffview farm.

    Front of Card: Canadian Indians picking raspberries at the Walker House Farm, Oakville & Toronto, Ont. Back of Post Card: Post Card ; This Space for Correspondence only ; This Space for Address only ; Postage Canada - 1c. U.S. - - 1c. Foreign - 2c.

    This binder references the materials in the Tweedsmuir History microfilm collection. It is part of the Access to Oakville History Project - an index for the Oakville Public Library's nine microfilm collections. The index is extensive, both outlining the contents of each microfilm reel and providing researchers with a direct ...