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      Digitized by Brendon Baillod with the support of the Historical Collections of the Great Lakes at Bowling Green State University and C. Patrick Labadie

      Postcard featuring a black and white photograph of a lighthouse in Oakville.

      This frame house was built as the residence of John Watson (1798-1897), a resident of Almonds. The house burned down in the late 1930s or early 1940s. The house was located on lot 35 of Concession 2.

      John Blow was born in Humberstone, Lincolnshire, England on November 13, 1819. After leaving school he farmed with his father and then went to Hull, England to learn the business of shipping clerk, wharfenger and warehouse man with the Hull Dock Co. In 1854 John Blow came to Whitby and …

      Mary (Needham) Blow (1825-1901) was born in Humberstone, Lincolnshire, England on 12 August 1825. She married John Blow on 10 February 1845 and had seven children, Martha Helen (1848-1905), Mary Alice (1851-1928), Emma, John Needham (1855-1915), Ezekiel Richard (1860-1930), Ernest Alfred (1862-1936) and Lucy. Mary died on 13 December 1901 …

      Location: Scrapbook # 1 - Page 122 Date of Scrapbook 1876-1922 Teresa Vanderburgh was one of St. Catharines' most prominent musicians and teachers for many years. The scrapbooks contain newspaper clippings, musical programs and pamphlets for St. Catharines and other places of interest to Miss Vanderburgh. She died on January …

      Location: Scrapbook # 1 - Page 123 Date of Scrapbook 1876-1922 Teresa Vanderburgh was one of St. Catharines' most prominent musicians and teachers for many years. The scrapbooks contain newspaper clippings, musical programs and pamphlets for St. Catharines and other places of interest to Miss Vanderburgh. She died on January …

      Location: Scrapbook # 1 - Page 123 - Item 1 Date of Scrapbook 1876-1922 Teresa Vanderburgh was one of St. Catharines' most prominent musicians and teachers for many years. The scrapbooks contain newspaper clippings, musical programs and pamphlets for St. Catharines and other places of interest to Miss Vanderburgh. She …

      Location: Scrapbook # 1 - Page 123 - Item 1 Date of Scrapbook 1876-1922 Teresa Vanderburgh was one of St. Catharines' most prominent musicians and teachers for many years. The scrapbooks contain newspaper clippings, musical programs and pamphlets for St. Catharines and other places of interest to Miss Vanderburgh. She …

      The Heron family came to Canada from Ayrshire, Scotland. William Heron (1792-1884) married Jane Crawford (1796-1877) at Ayrshire in 1818. The came to Canada with their family of two daughters, Elizabeth and Jean, and two sons, William and John, in the 1840s. They settled at Dalmore farm at Ashburn. John …

      David Mathison (1819-1883) was a tailor in Aberdeen, Scotland. He married Agnes Frost in 1846 by whom he had John Tait Mathison (1851-1929). In 1853 David Mathison married Elizabeth Tait and shortly after the couple came to Whitby where they had six children: Margaret, Jean, Peter William, David, George Tait, …

      Black and white negative of a photograph of a print of Whitby that appeared in Picturesque Canada: The Country as it was and is. The image shows a group of people standing on the roof of the Ontario Ladies' College looking west over the Town of Whitby. The college itself …

      (Condition: Good.)

      George Henry Wilkinson 1842-1916 and wife Maria Patterson 1863-1939. George Wilkinson was one of the seven sons and three daughters of francis Wilkinson and Clarissa Simons.

      A photo of Zavitz Mill standing beside the sand dunes which were once located there. The mill was built by Christian Zavitz and was operated by his son, Jesse, at the Lake Shore outlet of the Mill Pond (Eagle Marsh Drain at Gravelly Bay in Port Colborne) from 1780-1830. It …

      Eastern Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada is one of five synods of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada, consisting of more than 200 member congregations and 78,000 baptized members. The territory of the Eastern Synod runs from Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario to Halifax, Nova Scotia. In July …

      Land for the first Anglican Church was purchased on October 16, 1890 on the north side of Algoma St. East. A small church was built shortly thereafter, however this church was later deemed too small for the congregation. A new property was purchased in January 1912 on Main Street East, …

      (Condition: Good.)

      The picture looks like it's a copy of an earlier photographic format, possibly a tin-type.

      Black and white portrait photograph of Mrs. Wheatley. She's turned to her left. The picture is only of her head and shoulders. She's wearing earrings and a broach.