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      A cleaned up version of the map is also included in this record, courtesy of Mr. David Hobden. Click on "select" under the title above here. You can move the image around with your mouse to focus on certain parts of the photograph, or use the slider to zoom out …

      We were trying to ascertain where R.R. 1 Bronte was, what roads/streets it covered in the 1950's. Unfortunately this map doesn't have that information but it is as close as the Canada Post Archives can provide. In April 2020, we have added a 1918 Post Office "mail contract" asking for …

      This map was sent to Mr. Stuart Wark and has been kept in the original envelope. To see the envelope, either click on the map image or open up "Page 2".

      These maps are taken from the Atlas published in 1846 by W. E. Chambers & Sons, Edinburgh.

      Thank you to Halton Region, Heritage Services for this colour scan of the full map.

      This copy of the Wilmot survey map of Trafalgar Township was photographed from a wonderful display copy. It looks like Mr. Wilmot signed his name, "Sam L. Wilmot", but it is actually "Sam S. Wilmot".

      This is a partial transcript of one of 3 correspondence books kept by Kenneth D. Marlatt during his service with the 4th Canadian Mounted Rifles in France, in 1916. Kenneth Marlatt rose from Lieutenant to Major during his service. The 4th Canadian Mounted Rifles was a cavalry unit which participated …

      Please click on "reverse" to see the second page of the letter. Stationery letterhead: Office of Jay Joslin Wholesale and Retail Foreign & Domestic Dry Goods, 384 & 386 Lawrence Street, Denver, Col. Joslin Dry Goods, Callier & Cleaveland Iith, Denver, Col. Jennie's husband, Freeman Bell, worked as Head Bookkeeper …

      Miss Gladys McCleary was a long-time teacher at McCurdy's Corners School, Ninth Line and Derry Roads which was S.S.#8. She became a school inspector and later a trustee. Halton County has honoured her work by naming a school after her. Please see the link provided here. S.S. #7 was the …

      “Former Chief Dead at 74” George Wright, a founding member of the Trafalgar Township Fire Department and its chief for 20 years, died recently at the Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital. He was 74 years of age. Wright was appointed deputy chief of the department on its formation in 1939 and …

      Ethel and Eckhardt were part of a double wedding on this day. Ethel's sister Mary Grace married Harry Leedham at the same time. Eckhardt was the youngest son of Elizabeth and George Wettlaufer who had moved their family to farm in Trafalgar Township in about 1896. Their farm was called …

      St. Luke’s Anglican Church, Palermo, built 1845, is now being raised and a foundation will be built under it. Surrounding it is a quaint country churchyard in which tombstones bear the names of pioneer families of Palermo, sheltered by pine trees whose bare roots reach out like gnarled hands.

      Stanley Wood, husband of Ethel, had owned and run the Palermo general store. After Stanley's death, Mac and Myrtle McGill took it over.

      Mrs Ada Hill, a prominent resident of Palermo, through playing music entirely by ear, has marked ability in that line. She can and has filled in when the pianist of an orchestra form the city failed to turn up. She is a past president of the Palermo Women’s Institute, a …

      Information here has been taken from the Nelson Women's Institute Tweedsmuir History in which Palermo is covered in Book III, pages 41-87, which was prepared sometime about 1960. Also from the writing and documents in the collection of the Trafalgar Township Historical Society. A photograph of the Hall built in …

      The Palermo general store, W.P. Sargent, grocer.

      A Time for Romance… and invitations (Oakville Journal) Kay Craig

      Debby Graydon and Janet Lees (Centre) are two of more than a score of OTHS feminine students who are assisting recreation director Jack Ross at the day camp and eleven playgrounds in the area. Leslie and Wendy Cherington seem to feel that Debby and Janet are definitely tops. Many among …

      Forty members of Alpha Beta sorority were at Oakville Service stations, washing cars to raise money for Cancer Fund Campaign. Isabel Agnew, Wendy Milne, Valerie Wakelin, Jane Ovens, Janet Lees, and Sheena Craig.

      Official Opening of Thomas A. Blakelock High School, Thursday, Mar. 27, 1958.