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      Artist's drawing of the Eastern bank of the Sixteen Mile Creek in Oakville

      The technology embedded in today's digital camera photographs such as GPS location, compass orientation so we know which way the photographer was facing, date, even time of day will do more to help historians with these questions in the future.

      A lovely silk hand-stitched and embroidered postcard sent from France by Canadian soldier George Hawkins to his friend in Trafalgar Township, Ruth Cullingworth. These postcards were made by French people trying to exist in the thick of the war to sell to soldiers.

      A postcard sent from England by Ron Powell who had enlisted in the Canadian Forestry Corp. He came back to work on the farm in Oakville in April 1919 and married Ruth Cullingworth that October. They bought the "old Caverhill" farm on Fourth Line just north of Upper Middle Road, …

 Oakville Beaver, August 26, 1981     A photograph depicting the shipbuilding and lumber businesses along the Sixteen Mile Creek in Oakville.

      The ceremony was performed by Rev. C.D. Farris. Although Carol was born in Toronto, her parents moved their family to Trafalgar Township when the children were still young to join their King family relatives. Carol's parents were Ettie (King) and Ern Hopper. Ettie was the 8th child of George and …

      The children of this happy family spanned 24 years.

      George and Polly King had 11 children. They enjoyed many family gatherings over the years on the family farms along Dundas at the Sixteen, and on the Sixteen flats. When they all got together with their children and grandchildren, it was a large gathering.

      Laura's parents were George and Mary Ann, called Polly, King who owned the property on Highway 5 (Dundas Street) in Trafalgar Township called The Pines. Laura married George Lockhart Spence on April 8, 1909 and their children were Hester Louise Spence, Lillian Mary Spence and William Kenneth Spence. Extended family …

      Laura's parents were George and Mary Ann, called Polly, King who owned the farm on Highway 5 (Dundas Street), Trafalgar Township, called The Pines. Laura was born the year after her father had joined the Toronto Police force. He had been a policeman in London, England before emigrating. Laura's mother, …

      This photograph was probably taken at a family home in England just before they emigrated to Canada as family labels say F.R. Powell is 16 years old in the photograph and the family emigrated in 1908.

      Mary, my mother, remembered walking up and down the Sixteen "hogsbacks" to reach her grandparents who lived on the Jemmima Biggar farm, on the north east side of the Sixteen and the "Dundas highway". King and Joyce families were also relatives living in the area. I'm dating the picture as …

      The girls are dressed in practical playclothes and shoes.

      Ron was also often called by his first name,Frank. Mary married Thomas Kenyon Harold Choate on June 30, 1948. Mary and Ken lived happily in Ken's home town of Peterborough, Ontario. Muriel married Kenneth Edward Gordon on April 23, 1949 and they lived happily in Toronto. Ron married Jean Hastings …

      Picture is hand dated 1917.

      Note the horse and buggy going up the hill in the top picture, and it's hard to see, but possibly two people with a car to the right. These steep valley hillside roads were sometimes referred to by local people as "hogback" roads.

      The above information is taken from http://www.oakvillehistory.org/pdf/1841%20census.pdf

      Ruth Mary Ann Joyce was the daughter of George and Esther (Brown) Joyce who emigrated from Ireland in 1856-7, settling on a farm south-east of Milton, near Omagh, Ontario. Mary's parents died when she was a young girl. She had 11 brothers and sisters in the Halton area. My mother, …

      Jemmima Bigger, born September 9, 1826 died May 9, 1909, buried in Munn's Cemetery, Trafalgar, Ontario. Richard and Elizabeth's son Joseph Edward and his wife, Mary Anne, were my mother's grandparents. Joseph Edward, born April 29, 1843 died March 29, 1916. Mary Anne (Joyce) born March 11, 1863 died March …

      Joseph died in March 1916 and his son, George, is not in uniform here so we know it was taken before the fall of 1915. Hazel would have been about 10 years old in 1913 and I think she looks a little bit older than that while I think Ruth, …