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      This house was built before 1877 by William Robinson on lot 29 of Concession 8 in Whitby Township. It's current address is 920 Brawley Road West.

      At the Lynde family reunion, a stone commemorating the settlement of Jabez Lynde was placed beside the house by Whitby Mayor, John W. Bateman. Other dignitaries present at the reunion included: Ontario Minister of Highways, George Henry; MPP, W.E.N. Sinclair; MP W.H. Moore; and Ontario County Sheriff, J.F. Paxton. A …

      King Street School was built in 1921 on 300 King Street. It was built to replace Henry Street School which burned down in 1920. In 1979 it was renamed R.A. Sennett Public School in honour of its first principal who served from 1921-1952. R. A. Sennett Public School closed in …

      St. Bernard's Separate School was opened in 1926 at the north-east corner of Centre and Dundas Streets. An addition was constructed in 1950. The school closed in 1975 and demolished in 1987.

      King Street School was built in 1921 on 300 King Street. It was built to replace Henry Street School which burned down in 1920. In 1979 it was renamed R.A. Sennett Public School in honour of its first principal who served from 1921-1952. R. A. Sennett Public School closed in …

      The Jabez Lynde family home was located at the north-west corner of Dundas Street West and MQuay Blvd. A commemorative stone was unveiled by the Whitby Mayor John W. Bateman. George S. Henry, Ontario Minister of Public Works, was also present. Sylvester B. Lynde was the chairman for the reunion.

      James and Annie Nicholson were married at Belfast, Ireland in February 1876 and settled at Whitby shortly thereafter, around 1876. They had nine children. James Nicholson and Cephas Seldon were town undertakers who also operated a furniture store called Nicholson & Seldon.

      James Milton Kenny was born at Aylmer, Canada East, on April 9, 1867. He lived on a farm near Guelph until 1899 when he went to northern Manitoba to homestead. He worked for the Canadian Pacific Railway when it was being built through Manitoba and Saskatchewan, and later managed and …

      Charles Fothergill McGillivray was born on lot 1, concession 4, Pickering Township on December 26, 1857 and moved to Whitby in 1870. He graduated in arts from the University of Toronto in 1880 and received his M.A. degree in 1883. he graduated from the medical course in 1890 and interned …

      Thomas Grierson Whitfield was born in Ontario County on April 24, 1854 and moved to Whitby at an early age. In 1871 he became an apprentice for James Byrne, a Whitby druggist. In 1877 when Mr. Byrne died, Mr. Whitfield started his own drug store in Whitby. After several years …

      Frank Lloyd Beecroft was born at Saintfield in Reach Township on February 16, 1868. He worked on his father's farm until 1886 when he attended Lansdowne Model School and Jarvis Collegiate. He attended the British American Business College and went into the dry goods business in Toronto. He joined the …

      George Alexander Ross was born at Whitby on July 11, 1858 and from 1878 to 1924 was a partner with his brother Hugh Ross in Ross Brothers, dry goods and clothing store on Brock Street South. He died at Whitby on June 13, 1936 and is buried at Union Cemetery, …

      William Frederick Harden was born at Chatham, Kent, England, on May 19, 1883. He came to Whitby in 1914 and was head Chef at the Ontario Hospital until he retired on January 1, 1944. He developed the canning and preserving department at the hospital and was a member of the …

      A black and white photograph of the Inverlynn Chicken Coop. There are several chickens on the grass in front of the poultry house.

      Staff for the "Inverlynn" estate lived in the house at 243 Wellington Street. Whitby’s house numbering system was provided by Rev. Dr. James Roy Van Wyck (1877-1941), a retired Presbyterian minister. Van Wyck provided this service to the town, free of charge, during the Great Depression. By the summer of …

      A.T. Lawler's grocery store was the first store south of the Dominion Bank on the east side of Brock Street. The Lawler family operated the store in this location from 1878 to 1928. The delivery truck is from c.1925.

      This house is located on the east side of Brock Street South near Pitt Street. The address is 701 Brock St. S.

      This is a black and white photograph of the crowning of the May Queen at the May Court Festival.

      Dundas Street School, also known as the model school, was built in 1875 on the north side of Dundas Street west of Garden Street. It was demolished in the early 1960s but additions from the 1950s were renamed Florence Heard Public School in 1974.

      Alexander Whitelaw was born at Whitby Township on 30 May 1840. He operated a number of hotels at Myrtle and Ashburn before settling in Whitby in 1889 and operating the Ontario Hotel at Brock and Elm Streets. From 1910-1929, Alexander was a caretaker at the Whitby Post Office. He was …