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    Front: I. O. F. Orphanage, Oakville, Ont.

    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 ...

    Portrait of Major John Kaitting (1836-1928) who was a widely esteemed member of early Oakville society. He was a veteran of the Fenian Raids on Canada and was an Adjutant Captain of the Halton Battalion Rifles of Volunteer Militia. He died on Oct 12, 1928 of pneumonia in Brampton, Ont.

    Physician's Notice of Birth for an unnamed child (name would have been on Official Return of Birth card). Last name for Father is illegible. Maiden name of mother is Howes...

    Photo of Ralph Wakely (L) at a banquet dinner in the 1950s.

    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 ...

    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. ...

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    The King George Arch Bridge can be seen from the Red Cross Tea Rooms.

    Canoe races on Sixteen Mile Creek in front of the Oakville Club in Downtown Oakville

    Photo of the Oakville Train Station, which was also referred to as The Grand Trunk Depot. Date of postcard unknown.

    Postcard featuring an image of some livestock at the Walker House Farm. Date of postcard is unknown.

    Postcard featuring Knox Presbyterian Church located at 89 Dunn St in Downtown Oakville.

    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".

    Hettie was the church organist at Munn's United Church at the young age of 13! She played the organ at Munn's church until age 98 when she fell down the stairs and broke her hip. She lived to age 103. A photograph of her piano at the house shows that ...

    The back of this photograph is most interesting because someone has written all the names of the people in the photo and they have also written, "Attendants of Victoria Academy - 1896. Merton - County of Halton". This is the same building as S.S. #15, Merton, as evidenced in other ...

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    This would be an early version of the Middle Road bridge over Sixteen Mile Creek, later to be replaced by the QEW bridge in 1939. The later QEW bridge preserved the graceful arch design. Postcard of unknown date from the Robert J. Sandusky Collection

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