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 Unknown, The Globe and Mail (Toronto) ( CTVglobemedia), 26 October 1889     The Ontario County Courthouse was built from 1852-1854 on the west side of Centre Street between Ontario Street and Gilbert Streets. The architects were Frederic Cumberland and William Storm of Toronto. The extension at the north end was added in 1866. The building served as a courthouse from 1854-1964. In …

      Albert Wilson Jackson was born in County Wicklow, Ireland on June 11, 1870. He immigrated to Canada in 1871. His family operated a store at Port Whitby. Albert and his brother Tom operated a steamboat service in the 1890s and early 1900s. Mr. Jackson was a member of the Whitby …

      Elmina Lynde, youngest child of Whitby pioneer Jabez Lynde, was born during July 1815 at Whitby Township. She died on June 12, 1893 and is buried at the Society of Friends' Cemetery, Pickering Township. In her last will and testament she left the family homestead to All Saints' Anglican Church …

      Sarah Blair was born at Guildhall, Vermont, U.S.A. in 1813, daughter of James and Anna Blair. She was the second wife of Whitby undertaker and cabinetmaker William Till. Mrs. Till died at Whitby, Ontario, Canada, on December 7, 1892 and is buried at Union Cemetery, Oshawa.

      Reverend William Stephen Westney had his first pastorate at the Anglican Church in Barrie, where he was a member of the Public School Board. From 1880 to 1889 he was rector of St. John's Anglican Church, Port Whitby. In later years he was Chaplain of Corinthian Lodge AF and AM …

      Elliott Sprowle Rowe, youngest son of Whitby's first Mayor James Rowe and Sarah Jane Hamilton, was born at Whitby in 1859. He was ordained into the Methodist Ministry in 1889 after studying to earn a Bachelor of Arts and Doctor of Divinity Degree from Victoria College. He was a minister …

      Mrs. William Waterhouse (Elizabeth Ann Anderson) was born in Scotland and came to Whitby about 1874. She lived in Whitby for many years and died at her daughter's residence in Acton, Ontario on May 18, 1925. She is buried at Union Cemetery, Oshawa.

      This picture was taken in front of the public school on the north side of Winchester Street west of Simcoe Street. According to "100 Years of Brooklin Schools", tit is believed that this picture was taken about 1889. Teachers and students in this photograph have not been identified.

 W. Thomson, The Globe and Mail (Toronto) ( CTVglobemedia), October 26, 1889     This brick house was built in 1877 on the block bounded by Dundas, Henry, Colborne and King Streets at 401 Dundas Street West. It was demolished in 1958. The owners of the house were G.Y. Smith, a lawyer and later, Judge, and Samuel Trees, owner of the blanket factory and …

      Rev. J.J. Hare was principal of the Ontario Ladies' College from 1874 to 1915. He was born at Nepean Township, Canada West, On October 3, 1847, and died at Rochester Minnesota, U.S.A., on April 25, 1922. Dr. Hare is buried at Union Cemetery, Oshawa. Printed in the Saturday Globe, October …

      Printed in the Saturday Globe, October 26, 1889.

      The servants' wing was demolished in 1895 to build Frances Hall. Ontario Ladies' College is now known as Trafalgar Castle School, and is located at 401 Reynolds Street.

      A black and white photograph of four students of the Ontario Ladies' College. Left to right: Millie Hassard, Frill Sparling, Edith Beatty, Florence Withrow.

      A black and white photograph of ten students of the Ontario Ladies' College. Back Row: Nora Gurd (Toronto Junction), Gracie Moore (Toronto), Maud Somerset (Winnipeg), Laura Deacon (Brockville), Florence Withrow (Toronto), Ella Robinson (Brampton), Mabel Deacon (Brockville). Front Row: Gertie Kenny (Ottawa), Nellie Nicholson (Hamilton), Hattie Kenny (Ottawa).

      This print is from a special edition of the Saturday Globe featuring Whitby and Oshawa dated October 26, 1889. The electric light at left was installed in 1889.

      This print is from a special edition of the Saturday Globe featuring Whitby and Oshawa dated October 26, 1889. The electric light at left was installed in 1889.

      The Brooklin School was built in the early 1870s at 72 Winchester Road East (on the north side of Winchester Street west of Queen Street). An addition was put on the east side in 1880. The school's bell tower was blown down in a storm and replaced by another tower …

      John Blow was born in Humberstone, Lincolnshire, England on November 13, 1819. After leaving school he farmed with his father and then went to Hull, England to learn the business of shipping clerk, wharfenger and warehouse man with the Hull Dock Co. In 1854 John Blow came to Whitby and …

      This is a black and white photograph of the 1889 graduates from the Ontario Ladies' College.

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