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      The Hornby Mill was located at the corner of Derry Road and Trafalgar. It was demolished c. 2005

      The Hornby feed mill was situated at the hamlet of Agerton on the corner of Trafalgar Road and Derry Road. It was demolished circa 2005.

      The Hornby Mill was situated at the corner of Derry Road and Trafalgar. It was demolished c.2005

      Two photographs of the bride and groom on their wedding day in 1932.

      Perhaps the writer of the note on the photograph meant that this particular photograph was taken in 1928, and added the information about the couple using their car on their wedding trip for interest.

      Miss McCann married Robert Brownridge.

      Jeanette and Sonny Hall at the Agerton Mill on Derry Rd. This photograph was taken in the late 1930's. Jeanette Hall d. 2007, Sonny Hall d. 2000.

      House at Agerton built by Robert Emery Hall. The 100th birthday of the house was celebrated in 2005. This house has been in the Hall family for many decades, but has recently been sold.

      Agerton, also known as Auburn, was settled about 1869 with the establishment of a blacksmith shop by John Saunders. The inn was constructed in 1877. The area was part of Trafalgar Township at the time.

      Saunders home on the farm at Lot 11, concession 7, Trafalgar, c. 1898. Back Row, l-r; Aunt Sophia Montgomery, John Saunders, Mrs. Geo. Saunders, Ed Saunders, Jennine Montgomery, Sid McMurray, Millie Hooper, Grandma Dent, Mary Frawley, John McMurray, John Saunders. Front row; Mrs. John Saunders, Gladys Saunders, Carl Saunders, Lizzie …

      Back l-r; Martha, Annie, Dolly, Lizzie, Agnes front; Annie and John Saunders

      S.S. #7 was located at Derry and Sixth Line. It was built in 1870 and closed in 1968. Unlike many other schools, it did not have another name.

      Compared to other early photographic techniques, tintypes were simple and fast to prepare. A photographer could prepare, expose, develop, and varnish a tintype plate in a few minutes, quickly having it ready for a customer. Wikepedia notes that the tintype process was invented in 1853 and patented in the United …

      Clarence married Jessie Doreen Gillies in the Presbyterian Church at Omagh on September 14, 1963. Evelyn (McCann) Gillies married Graham Brown Gillies November 13, 1959 and lived on Highway 25 in a home built by Graham. It's beside the century home - 5507 Highway.

      Five generations of the McCann family have farmed in Omagh at 1427 Britannia Road West. Margaret's husband was Cecil McCann.

      Similar photos of other area men doing road work can be found by searching under the surnames of Ford, King and Gorman in the Trafalgar Township Historical Society Digital Collection.

      The family of Thomas had come from Ireland in the 1830's to settle in Peel County, Upper Canada. Thomas had one sister, Mary Jane, and his three brothers were Robert, William and Charles. Charlotte had numerous siblings as her mother died young and her father remarried twice more. Thomas was …

      Some family children attended the Omagh Public school. The Hornby railway stationmaster in about 1910 was a Mr. Stout and Morley Stout was involved with the Loyal Orange Lodge in Hornby about the same time. The family surname is usually spelled "Stoutt" in legal documents but in less formal writing …

      This barn is from a collection of photographs of barns from Postville at Dundas Street up to Hornby around Hwy. 401 along the Seventh Line aka Trafalgar Road taken in about 1988. This particular barn is unidentified. It is not the Hall family's Auburn farm barn at Derry Road as …

      In 1823, there was a great need for a school in the north east area of the Township of Trafalgar, Halton County. Land on the north side of Derry Road, backing onto the farm of the Richard Askin family, just west of Ninth Line was donated. The farms of Joseph …