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      The Whitby Collegiate Institute was built in 1873 and was located on the south side of Colborne Street between King and Centre Streets. The school was demolished in 1975-1976.

      This stone farmhouse was built by the Pearson family of Ashburn for Jeremiah Lick in 1884. It is located on lot 20 on the south side Concession 1 (Highway 2) between Kendalwood Road and Thickson Road. Since the 1950s it has been a nursing home and is the current location …

      This granite fieldstone house was built in 1884 by William Pearson of Ashburn for Jeremiah Lick. At the time this photograph was taken, the Stone Lodge was a tourist home. It is located on lot 20 on the south side of Concession 1 (Highway 2) between Kendalwood Road and Thickson …

      The Ashburn School was located at 780 Myrtle Road West. It was built about 1861 on the north side of the 9th Concession of Whitby Township west of Ashburn Road. It was built by a stone mason named Pearson. Since 1967 this building has been used as a community centre.

      Myrtle school was built in 1880 on the south side of the 9th Concession of Whitby Township, a short distance west of Highway 12. It was a board and batten building covered with insubrick in the late 1940s. In July 1940 the building was raised and a basement was built …

      May Irwin was a Canadian singer, songwriter, and comic performer who enjoyed popularity and prestige on the American stage from the late 1890s until the end of the 1910s. Key to Irwin’s popularity was her role as a “coon-shouter” and a performer of “coon songs,” deeply racist forms that emerge …

      This building was located at 128 Brock Street South on the north west corner of Brock and Colborne Streets. It was a one-storey building. At the time of this picture, the left store is owned by W.B. Pringle, Grocer, centre store by Fred Jones, Harness Maker and on the right …

      This is a black and white photograph of a group of people posed outside the front of the Ontario Ladies' College. Seated in front are Lord Aberdeen's daughter Lady Marjorie Gordon, Lord Aberdeen, the Governor General, and Lady Aberdeen. Ontario Ladies College is now known as Trafalgar Castle School, and …

      Lord Aberdeen (Governor-General of Canada) along with his wife, Lady Aberdeen, and daughter, Lady Marjorie Gordon, visited the Ontario Ladies' College on October 19, 1898. Ontario Ladies' College is now known as Trafalgar Castle School, and is located at 401 Reynolds Street. Printed in Ontario Ladies' College brochure, 1907.

      Richard Hatch was born at Darlington Township on October 7, 1839 and in 1864 started a hardware business at Whitby in partnership with his brother, Samuel Brown Hatch. In 1889 he moved to Toronto where he set up his own hardware business. He died at Toronto on July 26, 1936, …

      A black and white portrait photograph of Mr. George Rodd and Mrs. George Rodd (Melinda O. Lynes).

      Mrs. Thomas Paxton (Eliza Huckins) was born on October 18, 1825. She was the wife of Thomas Paxton, sheriff of Ontario County from 1881 to 1887. She died at Whitby on November 8, 1907 and is buried in the Dryden Baptist Cemetery, Whitby Township.

      The Lick family came to North American from Westerwald, Germany. The family of William and Zeviah (nee Selter) Lick moved to Canada from Jefferson County , New York. The couple had four children. Jeremiah Lick (1830-1906), was the youngest son of Zeviah and William. He was born in Richmond Hill …

      The Lick family came to North American from Westerwald, Germany. The family of William and Zeviah (nee Selter) Lick moved to Canada from Jefferson County , New York. The couple had four children. Jeremiah Lick (1830-1906), was the youngest son of Zeviah and William. He was born in Richmond Hill …

      This house was located on the west side of Centre Street between Colborne and Dundas Streets at 108 Centre Street South. It was originally a frame house covered with brick in 1896. This building was demolished in 1979.Whitby’s house numbering system was provided by Rev. Dr. James Roy Van Wyck …

      This house was located on the west side of Centre Street between Colborne and Dundas Streets at 108 Centre Street South. It was originally a frame house covered with brick in 1896. This building was demolished in 1979.Whitby’s house numbering system was provided by Rev. Dr. James Roy Van Wyck …

      Frederick Thomas Rowe was born at Whitby Township on 6 January 1873 and lived in the Almonds area until he moved to the Town of Whitby in 1929. He married Mary Ann Kemp at Whitby Township on 27 December 1899. Frederick Rowe was involved in Whitby Township and Town of …

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      Black and white photograph of a picnic at Corbett's Point, called Thickson's Point since 1947, at the end of Thickson Road on the shore of Lake Ontario Left to Right: , , Beatrice Dartnell Saunders, Evelyn McArthur, , , ,

      Black and white photograph c. 1898 of Miss Josephine M. Thornton (1852-1941). Josephine M. Thornton, the seventh daughter of Rev. Robert Hill Thornton, the first Presbyterian minister in Whitby Township, was born in Whitby Township, Canada, West, on November 23, 1852. She died in Toronto, Ontario on May 19, 1941. …