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      This is a photograph of three people standing in front of their home.

      In 1943, the Town of Whitby sponsored the construction of the Corvette H.M.C.S. Whitby, which was launched on September 18, 1943 from the shipyards at Midland, Ontario. This photograph was published in the Daily Times Gazette.

      The Martyrs Shrine is a national shrine to honour eight Jesuit Saints who worked and died in Ontario over 350 years ago. It is a tourist attraction for thousands of tourists each year. Leonard Beckley was born in Bude, Cornwall, England on 17 September 1905. He immigrated to Canada in …

      The Martyrs Shrine is a national shrine to honour eight Jesuit Saints who worked and died in Ontario over 350 years ago. It is a tourist attraction for thousands of tourists each year. Leonard Beckley was born in Bude, Cornwall, England on 17 September 1905. He immigrated to Canada in …

      The Midland elevator was built in 1881 and burned on 24 April 1904 according to Geo. R. Osborne, 'Midland and her Pioneers (1939; reprint ed. Mika Publishing., Belleville, 1975). This illustrates the elevator after it was enlarged in 1886/87 and before the next elevator was constructed in 1898.

      Coloured postcard of the shipyards and dry dock at Midland, ON

      ex MAUD and AMERICA, the MIDLAND CITY was moved to Georgian Bay in 1921 and converted from a paddlewheeler to a screw propeller in 1933. Divided back. Letter on back but not stamped or postmarked. Note dated "Bala, Ontario Sept. 4"

      Used to illustrate Ivan S. Brookes, Hamilton Harbor, 1826-1901.

      Photograph of the W. D. MATTHEWS unloading at the Town House elevator in Midland, ON

      Photograph of MIDLAND QUEEN unloading coal at Midland, ON

      Photograph of lumber carrier RESOLUTE docked at Midland. Note the sail on her mast, the stocked anchor hung from her starboard bow and the lifeboat suspended above deck on the kingpost.

     

      The canallers GLENMAVIS and GLENLIVET and some of the rest of the Great Lakes Transportation Co., Ltd fleet in winter quarters at Midland in the early 1920s.

      EMPRESS OF MIDLAND, a wartime loss, unloads at Midland c. 1908.