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      The William Dow (1777-1855) settled at Whitby Township in 1833 after having arrived in Canada from Banffshire, Scotland. They took up residence at Glen Dhu farm on Concession 3. William Dow was well known throughout Ontario for his agricultural improvements, especially in the production of great crop yields. William Dow …

      George Cameron was born at Picton on 12 February 1839 and came to Whitby about 1846 when his father, Alexander Cameron, was appointed Chief Constable. George trained as a shoemaker and for 40 years taught ballroom dancing at schools in Whitby, Oshawa, Bowmanville, Brooklin, Prince Albert, and Picton. He was …

      See also record #22-000-023. Ontario Ladies' College is now known as Trafalgar Castle School, and is located at 401 Reynolds Street.

      The Barclay family arrived in Canada in 1817 from Fifeshire, Scotland. George and Janet (nee Tullis) were among the first settlers of the Township of Pickering. Lyman T. Barclay was a lawyer in Whitby and became clerk of the County Court in 1881. In 1882 he married Mary Stockton McDonald …

      In May 1939 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth made a royal tour of Canada. They stopped in Whitby for about ten minutes.

      This frame house was built as the residence of John Watson (1798-1897), a resident of Almonds. The house burned down in the late 1930s or early 1940s. The house was located on lot 35 of Concession 2.

      The original Whitby Dunlops were founded in 1954 when the 1952-53 Oshawa Generals were disbanded after their arena burned down. Some of the players, along with coach and manager, Wren Blair, formed the Oshawa Truckers for the 1953-54 season. In 1954, the Oshawa Truckers relocated to Whitby and were temporarily …

      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.

      The new office for the Whitby Public Utilities Commission was built in 1948-1949 at 128 Brock Street South, the north-west corner of Brock and Colborne Streets.

      The addition to the sewage treatment plant was built in 1948 adjacent to the plant built in 1914. It is located south of Highway 401, east of the Victoria Street crossing.

      This house was built in 1857 by James Wallace as quarters for the officers of the Whitby Highland Rifle Company. It later became the home of Robert Wilson, a local lawyer. From the 1880s until 1974, the house was owned by the Barton family.

      This house at the north-east corner of Dundas Street and Euclid Street was built as early as 1828 at 408-410 Dundas Street West. From the 1830s until about 1860 it was operated as a tavern and hotel by Thomas Bennett, Thomas M. Scripture, and others. In the 1960s the lower …

      This house was located at 319 Green Street in Whitby. This home was built in 1861 at the south east corner of Green and Dunlop Streets. It was demolished in July 1964.George Cormack was a Whitby lumber dealer.Whitby’s house numbering system was provided by Rev. Dr. James Roy Van Wyck …

      This house was located at 1234 Dundas Street East. One of the first brick buildings in Whitby, this house stood on the north side of Dundas Street, east of Anderson Street. It was built as early as the 1830s and at one time was known as Spurril's Hotel. It was …

      This house was located at 1111 Dundas Street East. One of the first brick buildings in Whitby, this house stood on the south side of Dundas Street, west of Hopkins Street. It dates possibly as early as 1833 when William Till established a furniture and undertaking business at Hamer's Corners. …

      This home was located at 721 Dundas Street West. This brick house dating from the 1850s, was located on the south east corner of Dundas Street and Annes Street. It was demolished in 1972, to make way for the widening of Dundas Street.

      Black and white negative showing the Mercantile Department Store Tigers hockey team. Back row: Donald Dickson, Bill Mowat, Jack Lovell, Art Ashton, Jim Ross, Donald Brown, Dick Sundin. Front row: Mike Mikicel, Jack Adair, Jim Corner, John Shephard (mascott), Gerald Fletcher, Harold Brown.

      The Methodist Tabernacle was built in 1875-76 at the south-east corner of Centre and Colborne Streets. It became the Whitby United Church in 1925 and St. Mark's United Church in 1962. On April 1, 1929, a storm blew down the church steeple. The steeple fell onto Colborne Street.

      William P. Ashton (1893-1980) was born at Leeds, Yorkshire, England on September 23, 1896 and came to Grand Valley, Ontario at the age of 15. He was a veteran of the First World War and he served overseas in the Second World War. Mr. Ashton was caretaker of the Whitby …

      A black and white photograph of Dr. Hodgson.