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      Postville was also known as Post's Corners. It was at the intersection of Trafalgar Road and Dundas Street, Trafalgar Township.

      This house was demolished in 1965. Post's Corners was one of the first hamlets in the area known as Trafalgar Township. It was located at the intersection of what is now Trafalgar Road (or Seventh Line) and Dundas Street, Oakville, Ontario. Later, the hamlet was known as Postville.

      This store, gas station and ice cream booth on the south-west corner of Trafalgar Road (7th Line) and Dundas Street was photographed about 1940. The two-storey central building in this photograph is the original Post's Inn, according to Town of Oakville Heritage Planner, Carolyn Van Sligtenhorst in May 2016. Two …

      The front cover, back page and programme events from the opening ceremony of the new Snider's School in 1956. Snider's school was first built on land owned by Ephraim Post Concession 1, Lot 6, NDS. We know S.S. #4 was in use by 1877 and the 1878 Atlas shows it …

      Further Information: An October 1960 "Trafalgar Day Special" insert in the local newspaper, Trafalgar Journal - The Home Newspaper of Oakville and Trafalgar, has an item "Volunteer Firefighters Mark 21st Anniversary of Acton(sic) Action". The Trafalgar Township Historical Association has this print newspaper section in their archives. Information from this …

      At least one official record interprets Andrew's middle name as "Pettah".

      Ruth (Dixon) Taylor is at the front door of "Sprucedale", the 200 acre home farm on Lot 14, Concession 4, Trafalgar Township. John Dixon, sometimes spelled Dickson first built a log home, then a frame house and then in 1861, the beautiful brick home seen in this record. The farm …

      The red brick Omagh school was built in 1876 and demolished in about 1968.

      The brick from the school is now the facade of the new building in the same location, likewise the school cornerstone, which was sold by previous owners Doug and Betty Ann LeRich in November, 2005.

      Ontario archival histories show that the Loyal Orange Order came to Ontario with military men and others with Irish Protestant connections. The Lodges were an opportunity for men to socialize although in the early 1800's some, such as the Cavan Township Blazers, could be rough in their idea of righting …

      Hornby Garage & Machine Shop, 1937, located north of Steeles on Hornby Road. Cady Heatly & Herb Foreman are on the grader. Garage owner was Gordon Brigden. This wooden building was originally a church - Farlton Methodist. It had been located at the end of Andersons Lane on 7th Line …

      The Loyal Orange Lodge, Hornby No. 165 was taken into the Oakville Orange Lodge in later years.

      Miss McCann married Robert Brownridge.

      Lina and her sister Rebecca were both born in Halton County, Ontario. They were the daughters of John Dixon 1836 – 1901 and Matilda Ford 1837 – 1908.

      The correct name of this hall is "Trafalgar Memorial Hall". The name was amended and a plaque was commissioned to honour soldiers who had died in World War II hung in the Hall for many years - it is now at the archives of the Trafalgar Township Historical Society (linked …

      Both the Dent and Bradley families ran general stores on the northwest corner of Trafalgar and Dundas. Leslie Bradley took over the store from the Carpenter family in 1925 and was postmaster. The Dent family had the B-A (British American) gas pumps. This area was at one time called Postville, …

      Susanna's parents were Reuben Oakley who had come to Canada from England and his second wife, Mary Inglehart Colanda, the sister of his first wife, Elizabeth Inglehart who had died ca 1832. Reuben and Mary are also buried in Palermo United Cemetery, Trafalgar Township.

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      John was one of the four sons of Emily (Gilby) and George Henry Hardy, Sheridan. John married Anne, called Annie, Livingston Cameron on January 1, 1919, in Queenston, Lincoln Co., Ontario.